Featured

Abstract art of three cloaked figures with walking sticks against layered, earthy textured background.
Heaven Meets Earth
In the birth of Christ, God comes to restore and set free every person and all creation.
Rowan Williams
Essay
Small group seated on benches and floor around man in religious robes in a carpeted room with striped curtains.
The Home You Carry with You
A church that prays in the language of Jesus, scattered by war, lives on in many new places.
Stephanie Saldaña
Report
Abstract textured artwork with gold and white patches on a blue and brown background.
Making Art to Mend Culture
Creative art is about imagining the future as it could be.
Makoto Fujimura
Susannah Black Roberts
Interview
Just Your Handyman
Some people build skyscrapers. I address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.
Kurt Armstrong
The Doers
Stylized landscape with rolling hills, birds flying, wooden fence, and pink flowers at sunset.
To Mend a Farm
A restored landscape will be more than it was before, bearing the marks of damage and repair.
Adam Nicolson
Essay
Row of clay pots lined against a textured beige stone wall with shelves holding more pots.
Hunger
In this story set in 1990s Armenia, survivors of war find a reason to go on living.
Narine Abgaryan
Margarit Ordukhanyan
Zara Torlone
Fiction
Close-up painting of a woman with brown skin and a blue headscarf framed by a patterned border.
Portraits of Survival
In Tears of Gold, an art book from Plough, Hannah Rose Thomas gives voice to women who have survived violence in forgotten corners of the world.
Hannah Rose Thomas
Portfolio

Insights

Abstract mural of children with one fully painted boy in the center wearing a red tie and white shirt.
Three Pillars of Education
In the Bruderhof, as in any society, we see how children flourish when family, school, and community align.
Heinrich Arnold
Essay
Close-up of denim fabric with visible hand stitching and patchwork repairs using white thread.
The Joy of Mending Jeans
A mom makes mended clothes beautiful.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
The Doers
Close-up of ornately carved wooden pew ends with red cushions in a church interior.
Zero Episcopalians
A young minister in a declining church looks for reasons to hope.
Benjamin Crosby
Essay
Abstract textured artwork with gold and white patches on a blue and brown background.
Making Art to Mend Culture
Creative art is about imagining the future as it could be.
Makoto Fujimura
Susannah Black Roberts
Interview
A beige fabric with six different stitched patch samples in varying patterns and colors.
Repairing Relationships
Four writers reflect on the restorative power of personal forgiveness.
Catherine Doherty
Teresa of Avila
Desmond Tutu
Jacques Philippe
Reading
Abstract painting with human figures, swirling patterns, gold leaf accents, and outlines in teal and black.
Yielding to God
The Christ Child is born in the poverty of our hearts.
Philip Britts
Reading
Black and white sketch of a hand holding a wrench gripping a small house.
Not Everything Can Be Fixed
Perhaps some things can’t be repaired, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Carlo Gebler
Personal History
People sitting on a low wall near modern stone buildings with pathways and greenery in daylight.
Architecture for Humans
Can people live in hope if their homes and places of work do not nurture and celebrate life?
Norman Wirzba
Essay

Web Exclusives

Painted person standing barefoot with arms crossed, against a blurred nature background under a blue sky.
Could I Do That?
A prison teacher finds she’s not that different from her students. Her novel Quinn takes the perspective of the perpetrator.
Em Strang
Madoc Cairns
Interior of a grand Gothic cathedral with tall arches, chandeliers, and stained glass windows.
Rebuilding Notre-Dame Cathedral
It’s not the first time it has risen from the ashes.
Elizabeth Lev
Moonlit scene of ancient ruins and stone arches reflecting on calm water surrounded by hills and trees.
Who Can Repair the World?
The novels of Eugene Vodolazkin hold visions of tikkun olam.
Nadya Williams

Arts & Letters

Book cover of The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush with stylized mountain and ocean imagery.
Editors’ Picks: The Quickening
Without glorifying community or motherhood, Elizabeth Rush’s The Quickening brings these things into the conversation on climate change.
Elizabeth Wainwright
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt with colorful octopus and woman illustration.
Editors’ Picks: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures portrays how rich life can be when we nurture meaningful connections with one another.
Amy Parilee Rickards
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of Holler by Danielle Chapman with orange and green colors, over canyon rock background.
Salvaging Beauty from the Ruins
Danielle Chapman’s Holler tells a story that in a way belongs to all of us.
Elizabeth Genovise
Editors’ Pick
Person seen from behind holding a large reflective globe showing stars and clouds against a blue background.
Ifs Eternally
The “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.
Christian Wiman
Essay
Man in a black suit and bowler hat viewed from behind against a vivid red-orange sky.
Poem: “Andy Mayhew, Author of the Sonnets of Shakespeare”
Love and love sonnet, both botched.
Amit Majmudar
Poetry
Bright abstract sun with colorful rays shining over a rocky landscape and water body.
Poem: “Daedalus”
Remember, even eagles have an upper bound.
Amit Majmudar
Poetry