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Plough Quarterly No. 29 - Beyond Borders (Paperback)
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Plough Quarterly No. 29 - Beyond Borders (Paperback)
Series: Plough Quarterly
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Can we move beyond borders that divide us without losing our
identity? Over the past decade, the yearning for rootedness, for
being part of a story bigger than oneself, has flared up as a
cultural force to be reckoned with. There's much to affirm in this
desire to belong to a people. That means pride in all that is
admirable in the nation to which we belong - and repentance for its
historic sins. A focus on national identity, of course, can lead to
darker places. The new nationalists, who in Western countries often
appeal to the memory of a Christian past, applaud when governments
fortify borders to keep out people who are fleeing for their lives.
(Needless to say, such actions are contrary to the Christian
faith.) Is our yearning for roots doomed to lead to a heartless
politics of exclusion? Does maintaining group or national identity
require borders guarded with lethal violence? The answer isn't
artificial schemes for universal brotherhood, such as a universal
language. Our differences are what make a community human. Might
the true ground for community lie deeper even than shared
nationality or language? After all, the biblical vision of
humankind's ultimate future has "every tribe and language and
people and nation" coming together - beyond all borders but still
as themselves. In this issue: - Santiago Ramos describes a double
homelessness immigrant children experience as outsiders in both
countries. - Ashley Lucas profiles a Black Panther imprisoned for
life and looks at the impact on his family. - Simeon Wiehler helps
a museum repatriate a thousand human skulls collected by a
colonialist. - Yaniv Sagee calls Zionism back to its founding
vision of a shared society with Palestinians. - Stephanie Saldana
finds the lost legendary chocolates of Damascus being crafted in
Texas. - Edwidge Danticat says storytelling builds a home that no
physical separation can take away. - Phographer River Claure
reimagines Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince as an Aymara fairy tale.
- Ann Thomas tells of liminal experiences while helping families
choose a cemetery plot. - Russell Moore challenges the church to
reclaim its integrity and staunch an exodus. You'll also find: -
Prize-winning poems by Mhairi Owens, Susan de Sola, and Forester
McClatchey - A profile of Japanese peacemaker Toyohiko Kagawa -
Reviews of Fredrik deBoer's The Cult of Smart, Anna Neima's The
Utopians, and Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway - Insights on
following Jesus from E. Stanley Jones, Barbara Brown Taylor, Teresa
of Avila, Oscar Romero, Martin Luther King Jr., Eberhard Arnold,
Leonardo Boff, Meister Eckhart, C. S. Lewis, Hermas, and Dietrich
Bonhoeffer Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture
for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings
you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common cause
with others.
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