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Plough Quarterly No. 26 - What Are Families For? (Paperback)
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Plough Quarterly No. 26 - What Are Families For? (Paperback)
Series: Plough Quarterly
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What is a family and what is it good for? Story 1: Families are in
crisis, and the cause is moral breakdown. We urgently need a deep
renewal of our family culture, supported by public policies that
strengthen traditional marriage and encourage childbearing. Story
2: Families are in crisis, and the cause is capitalism. We need
structural changes in society so that all families can flourish:
parental leave, guaranteed healthcare, flexible work hours for
parents, restorative justice. What if both these stories are true?
This issue of Plough reflects on what a family is and what it is
for, so that the transformations needed to solve the crisis of the
family start from a firm basis, not a nostalgic ideal or
progressive theorizing. As always, we take as a starting point the
teachings of Jesus. It turns out his idea of family values might
not be what people think. He calls us to extend our natural love
for our biological family to a vast new throng of siblings - a
family of many ethnicities and cultures that includes the widowed,
the unmarried, the outsider, and the stranger. In this issue: -
Ross Douthat asks what is stopping people from having the one more
child they desire. - Edwidge Danticat says families are not
nuclear. - Gina Dalfonzo reveals what singles know best about the
church as family. - Norann Voll remembers a Jewish woman who
escaped the Holocaust and married a German. - W. Bradford Wilcox
and Alysse ElHage report on how the Covid pandemic has impacted the
family. - Noah Van Niel asks whether masculinity is OK anymore. -
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn reflects the burden of family
history, celibacy, and monument toppling. - Sarah C. Williams
pinpoints the source of feminist pioneer Josephine Butler's daring.
- Rabbi Jonathan Sacks begins the story of marriage 385 million
years ago in a lake in Scotland. - Zito Madu recalls how his
father's amazing storytelling saved the past from oblivion. You'll
also find: - M. M. Townsend on what Louisa May Alcott and Simone de
Beauvoir had in common - A special announcement about Plough's new
poetry contest: the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award - A reading from
G. K. Chesterton - Two new poems by Rachel Hadas - Reviews of Eric
Edstrom's Un-American, Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law's Prison by
Any Other Name, Brian Doyle's One Long River of Song, and Martin
Caparros's Hunger 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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