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Can a cloistered nun help a hurting world?

How can Israeli Jews and ­Palestinians find empathy for one another?

‘On Reconciliation’ is an invitation to readers to imagine themselves beyond the headlines and horrors, in a room where former enemies can begin to repair the world together.

Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature New York, NY – The 25 Finalists for the...

We seem to lack a cultural script for how to make and cultivate friendships – and why.

In this podcast, Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maya Savir chart a hopeful course for their country, and celebrate Maya’s new book On Reconciliation.

A mom makes mended clothes beautiful.

Is reconciliation possible after October Seventh and the war in Gaza?

How can Israeli Jews and ­Palestinians find empathy for one another?

Plough’s latest book, On Reconciliation, offers a new language for imagining the future of Israelis and Palestinians.

There was nothing negative about Francis of Assisi’s asceticism. It was as positive as a passion, even a pleasure.

23 years after she was assassinated, another woman is carrying on the legacy

In Christ there is no separation between religious and temporal life.

We do not decide to be cruel. We simply decide, quietly and many times a day, not to look.

Bonhoeffer determined that America did not know what true freedom was.

This best-selling volume addresses fears every human faces – vulnerability, illness, aging, and dying. Arnold says living for a cause greater than ourselves enables us to face eternity with the streng...

People may be more divided than ever. But Howard Thurma…

When I first met Sam, he was nearly feral. But he became more than a friend.

Off the coast of Britain, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution save lives.

Is just war theory meaningless? What about defending the innocent?

From the social club to the monastery, Saint Augustine’s friendships shaped him.

As a mother grappling with faith, what am I to make of stories of early Christian mothers killed in the arena?

Between Two Sounds follows the life of world-famous com…

Christians must live out our belief that Christ is Lord, and think and pray for wisdom to act politically in ways that best reflect this. But how, exactly, do we let Christ be Lord of our politics? An...

Join other Plough readers in your area for discussion and fellowship.

Is reconciliation possible after October Seventh and the war in Gaza?

A rescued Vietnamese boat person has devoted her life to serving new waves of migrants.

Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? What obligations does it impose? Does it involve sacrifice? Should we be striving to be better friends?

How I stumbled into a story much bigger than my own – and found my way to the Bruderhof.

Matthew Moser reviews Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Rowan Williams.

This best-selling volume addresses fears every human faces – vulnerability, illness, aging, and dying. Arnold says living for a cause greater than ourselves enables us to face eternity with the streng...

Psychiatrist Paul R. McHugh says good intentions aren’t enough.

What melody could stop us in our tracks and stir in us a dim memory, a dim hope, of our final home?

Howard Thurman was a trusted guide for Martin Luther King Jr and other civil-rights leaders.

Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? What obligations does it impose? Does it involve sacrifice? Should we be striving to be better friends?

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

A sixteenth-century Anabaptist treatise lays out church teaching on adult baptism, the Lord’s Supper, community of goods, nonviolence, participation in government, marriage, and more...

On Seizing the Day Before It Is Too Late