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“This pullquote is precisely and exactly correct about Maya Savir; it is for this reason I want all y’all to read the work it’s discussing to feel wistfully hopeful as well as to get real-world tested advice on managing conflict resolution.”—Richard Derus expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/10/on-r...

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Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *Evening Prayers* by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, in the Downloads section of their account.

“If *The Prisoner* is a trip, The Prisoner is defined by his refusal to go. The wildness of the plots comes to stand in for just how stubborn our hero is in refusing to relax and enjoy the phantasmagoria.” @philipchristman.bsky.social

“These essays can be challenging-- not because the language is difficult, but because Thurman's unwavering commitment to Christ's teachings on love of enemy and what that entails, may provoke readers to self-examination and deep thought.” —Ruthie Norcia Morton

Plough readers in London are getting together again on 5 November! We’ll be meeting to discuss the latest issue of Plough and to enjoy good company and refreshments. See you there! Details and RSVP here: www.plough.com/events/londo...

“Loftus is not afraid to call out our contemporary obsession with ‘self-care,’ noting that the Christian life has very little to do with self-indulgence – and at his boldest, he even suggests that people truly mired in sin might need salvation as much as (or more than) they need therapy.”

Saint Francis at Eight Hundred – A Conversation with @robertellsberg.bsky.social Read the latest PloughStack: ploughstack.substack.com/p/saint-fran...

“I am convinced that using AI infringes on something essential to our humanity when it encroaches on those practices that are essential to cultivating intellectual virtue and thus promotes intellectual vice instead.” —Ryan McCormick

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“I’ve found that the oil on the hinge of community is openness, freedom, and a lack of need for control. The ability to get swept into things has greatly contributed to the sense of oasis in my life.” —Daniel Whyte IV

Featured Book. Groups in both Rwanda and South Africa were implacable enemies. Yet they found a path to reconciliation. This book explores whether Israelis and Palestinians can learn from the people of these countries. @plough.bsky.social

“For any work of art to be acceptable to God it must first be right with itself. … For example, a good religious play must first and foremost be a good play before it can begin to be good religion.” —Dorothy L. Sayers

Get a copy of *Nothing Can Separate Us: Healing for Souls and Nations* by Howard Thurman here: www.plough.com/books/nothin...

Plough readers in Denver are getting together again on November 22nd! We’ll be meeting to discuss the latest issue of Plough and to enjoy good company and refreshments. See you there! Details and RSVP here: www.plough.com/events/denve...

“In every sunbeam that shines on us, in every little wild flower, in everything that lives and moves on earth, there is something of the kingdom of God. There is something of beauty that can touch our hearts and teach us in a way that we can hardly learn from men’s words.” —C. F. Blumhardt

“Al-Sabouni’s architectural expertise alone makes for a riveting read. But it’s the sincerity, vulnerability, zealous curiosity, and deep perceptiveness with which she writes that makes *Mosque* a true gem.” —Stephen G. Adubato

👋Hi Fort Worth Plough Readers! Join us at Wild Acre Brewing this Sunday at 4 pm for conversation and conviviality. Sign up to save your spot: www.plough.com/events/fort-...

A darkness stalked him, but he lit bright fires of love and work and wit, and faced the wind, and found his way for decades past that autumn day. And now I kindle every flash of memory that warms the ash of loss. —Jean L. Kreiling

“The paintings seem to be all about belief. They seem to be about a kind of faith as well as being about the kind of light that you described earlier, the light of love, the light of belief. There’s more to them than meets the eye.” —Andrew Graham-Dixon in conversation with with Joy Marie Clarkson

“The stories of Frog and Toad are beloved for their humor, but also, I believe, for reflecting to us truths about the friendships that we cherish, distilled into their simplest elements – things we know from experience but rarely ponder.” —Cambria Kaltwasser

“Our nation is now on the agricultural equivalent of insulin shots, dialysis, and a cabinet of pills, largely ignoring the diet recommendations of experts who have seen the damage firsthand.” —Caleb Coy

Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays* in the Downloads section of their account.

“The aesthetic trappings that so often cloud visions of benevolent community – acreage, inheritance, rural independence – fade when we see city spaces transformed by oasis people who are open, selfless, risktakers.” —Daniel Whyte IV

"Rarely does one find so much wisdom packed into a book of about 130 pages in length," Stephen W. Angell says of Nothing Can Separate Us, a new anthology of writings by the twentieth-century African American theologian Howard Thurman. "This is one to read slowly and savor."

“Only the belief that race is a social construct, that we are all simply children of God punching our way through whatever circumstances we were born into, can offer hope.” @philipchristman.bsky.social

“Rarely does one find so much wisdom packed into a book of 144 pages in length. This is one to read slowly and savor.” —Stephen W. Angell, Friends Journal

The last stop of the *On Reconciliation* Book Tour will be in Oakland, CA tomorrow at 3:30 PM! Register to attend the event: newlehrhaus.org/programs/043...

“This foundational Anabaptist treatise is key to understanding Hutterite theology, and its significance for understanding ethical and doctrinal essentials of the Anabaptist tradition extends far beyond that.” —Jonathan Seiling

“It is never the beginning of the story to say a child is born, nor is it the end to say a man has died, for long preparation leads up to every birth, and a death leaves behind it a power for good or evil that works on in the world.” —Elizabeth Goudge

Join us at the Plough Reader Meetup in Tampa, FL! 📅 October 24 at 1 pm 📍 Piccolo Buco by Cooper’s Hawk This is a chance to discuss the latest issue of Plough, meet other readers in your area, learn from each other, and generally enjoy good company and refreshments.

“They did such a beautiful job speaking about it and making sure that both sides are heard. This really opened my eyes to the idea that peace is really the only way.” —Talya Dalloul

“One reason we are so silent as a society about pregnancy loss is that talking about it is terribly clunky. We are all afraid of saying the wrong thing, and for good reason. The wrong thing hurts, and most things are the wrong thing to say.” —Kayla Beth Moore

Join us this evening in San Francisco! Maya Savir will be speaking about *On Reconciliation* with book translator Todd Hasak-Lowy. Register to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us in Fort Worth for a Reader Meetup on October 25! We'll be meeting at Wild Acre Brewing in Fort Worth to discuss the latest issue of Plough and enjoy good company and refreshments. See you there! Details and RSVP here: www.plough.com/events/fort-...

When dusk descends, when branches are unveiled, When roots reach deeper than our minds can feel And ready us for winter with strange calm, That I should see the inner tree revealed And know its beauty as the bright leaves fall And feel its truth within me as I am? @malcolmguite.bsky.social

Maya Savir read an excerpt from her recently published book, *On Reconciliation: What Israelis and Palestinians Can Learn from South Africa and Rwanda*, at a Book Launch event at Georgetown University last week. Get the book here: www.plough.com/books/on-rec...

“How rare has become this love of Christ through which a man recognizes the heart of his neighbor, this love which enables a man to speak the other’s language because he has an inner ear for his deepest longing.” —Eberhard Arnold

“Both groups live in close quarters with other women, neighbors not of their own choosing, sealed off from the rest of the world. They wear uniforms and sleep in cells. ... They live under obedience. And both, in different ways, spend their lives waiting to die.” —Lauren Spohn

Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *My God and My All: The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi* by Elizabeth Goudge, in the Downloads section of their account.