Featured

Black and white woodcut-style close-up of a clenched hand holding wheat stalks.
The Ground of Hospitality
Saint Phocas understood he would have to give himself to the land in return.
Norman Wirzba
Essay
People planting trees in a large field with green hills and scattered trees in the background.
Beating the Big Dry
An Australian cattle farm fights drought by reviving ancient landscapes.
Interview
Elderly man in a light shirt outdoors, smiling and clapping with trees and hills in the background.
What I Stand For Is What I Stand On
What Wendell Berry stands on, quite literally, is dirt.
Jeffrey Bilbro
Review
Person draped in black sitting alone on stone steps beside a historic stone building at night.
The Necessity of Reverence
Conversion is a grace, but we must cultivate a pilgrim’s eye for beauty.
Sister Dominic Mary Heath, OP
Essay
Round birthday cake with white icing, colorful sprinkles, and letter candles spelling HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
The Birthday Party at the End of the World
South Sudan, Baltimore, and the lived realities of food insecurity.
Matthew Loftus
Essay
Plate with figs, grapes, boiled eggs, cheese, almonds, olives, prosciutto, and bacon on a dark tabletop.
Feasting in Kurdistan
Feasting in Kurdistan has made me reconsider the Last Supper.
Marilyn R. Gardner
Essay

From the Editor

Still life painting of bread, cheese, and sliced sausage on a wooden surface against a gray background.
From Farm to Feast
If shared with radical hospitality, every meal is a taste of the feast to come.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Watercolor of a farmer with a hat fitting a harness on a horse beside a plow in a field.
How Shall We Farm?

To the question, “How shall we farm?” must be added the question, “How shall we live?”

Philip Britts
Essay
Raw leg of lamb on a dark surface with garlic, herbs, chili, peppercorns, and coarse salt.
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Highly processed carbs can seem like an apt representation of human fallenness.
Sarah Ruden
Essay
An elephant standing in a grassy field surrounded by grazing cows under a blue sky.
Cows and Elephants
Alongside wildlife, pastoralists and livestock have shaped the Kenyan landscape for centuries.
Essay
Four people standing in a field holding baskets full of freshly picked leafy green vegetables.
Streams in the Desert
The early mortality rate is dropping steeply, and that’s justice.
Richard Joyner
Dispatch
Family seated around a low table eating a meal with various dishes and chopsticks.
At the Welcome Table I
Breaking bread around the world: Plough asked five friends in five places to share what hospitality looks and tastes like.
Dispatch
Four women and two children in colorful clothing sitting outdoors eating food from plates on a mat.
At the Welcome Table II
Breaking bread around the world: Plough asked five friends in five places to share what hospitality looks and tastes like.
Dispatch
Abstract painting of five curved shapes in blue, red, and green with black accents on a beige background.
Love Is Work
Working together with others is the best way to test our faith.
Eberhard Arnold
Inklings
Child in pink shirt looking up with half the face illuminated and the rest in darkness.
Why Yemen Starves
The making of a modern famine
Report

Arts & Letters

Colorful painting of diverse people gathered around a table with food and bread being shared.
Table Fellowship
Sieger Köder’s interpretations of innocent suffering have a clarity born in his experience of war.
Another View
Shelf with several old books, some open, some closed, with bookmarks and ribbons visible.
Digging Deeper: Issue 20
A list of books to stir the culinary soul
Digging Deeper
Boy and elderly man holding hands walking on a path surrounded by birds and wild boars in a forest.
A Book to End All Walls
Korea’s demilitarized zone has become an accidental nature preserve that gives hope for a brighter future.
Uk-Bae Lee
Chungyon Won
Interview
Calm water body surrounded by dense green trees and tall reeds under a cloudy sky.
Restoring a Creek
Working with nature, the creek has rebounded and begin to show hints of what it must once have been like before European settlement.
Report
Close-up of a ceramic plate with a wide crack repaired using gold in a kintsugi style.
Cloth and Cup
Then there’s the cup with / the stained crack. Your favorite.
Luci Shaw
Poem
Close-up of weathered wood texture with blue-gray and brown tones showing cracks and grain patterns.
The Dead Breed Beauty
Today, a falcon cruising above the river. / Dippers, pure grey, about the size of a dove, / splashing in and out of the water in bursts …
Poem
Side view painting of a vintage metal hand plane with wooden handles on a dark surface.
Level
The carpenter’s son is dying.
Elizabeth Genovise
Fiction