Featured

Black and white woodcut-style illustration of four human toes surrounded by plant stalks.
The Ground of Hospitality
Saint Phocas understood he would have to give himself to the land in return.
Norman Wirzba
Essay
Group of people planting young trees on a green hillside under clear sky.
Beating the Big Dry
An Australian cattle farm fights drought by reviving ancient landscapes.
Interview
Elderly man in a light shirt clapping outdoors 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 dressed in black sitting alone on a stone bench against an old textured wall 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
Birthday cake with white icing, colorful sprinkles, and candles spelling HAPPY on a blue patterned plate.
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, sliced boiled eggs, almonds, cheese, prosciutto, olives, and bacon strips next to two mugs.
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

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 with rosemary, garlic, chili, nutmeg, and coarse salt on dark surface.
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Highly processed carbs can seem like an apt representation of human fallenness.
Sarah Ruden
Essay
An elephant walking among a group of grazing cows in a grassy field with mountains in the background.
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 fresh leafy greens and smiling.
Streams in the Desert
The early mortality rate is dropping steeply, and that’s justice.
Richard Joyner
Dispatch
Seven people, including children, sitting around a low table sharing a meal with various dishes.
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
Group of women and children sitting on mats and eating meals outdoors with plates of food around them.
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 overlapping curved shapes in blue, green, and rust on a beige background.
Love Is Work
Working together with others is the best way to test our faith.
Eberhard Arnold
Inklings
Young child in a pink shirt looking up with half face lit and the rest in shadow.
Why Yemen Starves
The making of a modern famine
Report

Arts & Letters

Colorful painting of diverse people sharing bread around a table with food and drinks.
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 and some closed, with ribbons and a scroll.
Digging Deeper: Issue 20
A list of books to stir the culinary soul
Digging Deeper
Illustration of a child and elderly man walking on a path surrounded by birds, wild boars, and rabbits in nature.
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 green and brown reeds and lush green trees on a cloudy day.
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 cracked ceramic surface repaired with gold lacquer in the kintsugi style.
Cloth and Cup
Then there’s the cup with / the stained crack. Your favorite.
Luci Shaw
Poetry
Close-up of weathered wood with textured cracks and grain in natural light.
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 …
Poetry
Painting of a vintage wood hand plane with wooden handle and knob on a textured backdrop.
Level
The carpenter’s son is dying.
Elizabeth Genovise
Fiction