Featured

Heaven Meets Earth
In the birth of Christ, God comes to restore and set free every person and all creation.
Rowan Williams
Essay
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
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
Doers
To Mend a Farm
A restored landscape will be more than it was before, bearing the marks of damage and repair.
Adam Nicolson
Essay
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
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

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
The Joy of Mending Jeans
A mom makes mended clothes beautiful.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
Doers
Zero Episcopalians
A young minister in a declining church looks for reasons to hope.
Benjamin Crosby
Essay
Making Art to Mend Culture
Creative art is about imagining the future as it could be.
Makoto Fujimura
Susannah Black Roberts
Interview
Repairing Relationships
Four writers reflect on the restorative power of personal forgiveness.
Catherine Doherty
Teresa of Avila
Desmond Tutu
Jacques Philippe
Reading
Yielding to God
The Christ Child is born in the poverty of our hearts.
Philip Britts
Reading
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
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

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
Rebuilding Notre-Dame Cathedral
It’s not the first time it has risen from the ashes.
Elizabeth Lev
Who Can Repair the World?
The novels of Eugene Vodolazkin hold visions of tikkun olam.
Nadya Williams

Arts & Letters

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’ Picks
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’ Picks
Salvaging Beauty from the Ruins
Danielle Chapman’s Holler tells a story that in a way belongs to all of us.
Elizabeth Genovise
Editors’ Picks
Ifs Eternally
The “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.
Christian Wiman
Essay
Poem: “Andy Mayhew, Author of the Sonnets of Shakespeare”
Love and love sonnet, both botched.
Amit Majmudar
Poetry
Poem: “Daedalus”
Remember, even eagles have an upper bound.
Amit Majmudar
Poetry