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Pain is inevitable. Almost everyone is living with some kind of
pain, whether the cause is physical, emotional, financial, social,
or spiritual. A desire to escape it has led thousands of Canadians
to seek euthanasia, and countless others into opioid addiction.
What can we learn from people around the world for whom pain is a
fact of life? How can we help others bear their pain? How might the
wisdom of earlier eras help us? What answers does faith offer? On
this theme: - Navid Kermani visits farming Madagascar battling
drought caused by climate change. - Benjamin Crosby asks why
churches haven’t spoken out against Canada’s euthanasia
experiment. - Tom Holland sums up the history of pain in two
artworks and three lives. - Lisabeth Button shares correspondence
with a friend succumbing to Alzheimer’s. - Rick Warren
demonstrated how our own suffering can lead to our best ministry. -
Wang Yi, an imprisoned Chinese pastor, calls churches to face
repression boldly. - Leah Libresco Sargeant profiles nuns providing
palliative care. - Eleanor Parker considers an Anglo-Saxon poem,
“The Dream of the Rood.” - Brewer Eberly tells what he learned
from an insufferable patient. - Randall Gauger, who lost his son to
cancer, finds lessons in C. S. Lewis. Also in the issue: - A report
on the resurgence of bison by Nathan Beacom - Original poetry by
Sofia M. Starnes and Julia Nemirovskaya - An excerpt from a new
graphic novel, By Water - Reviews of Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon
Copperhead, James K. A. Smith’s How to Inhabit Time, and Nick
Cave’s and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage. -
Readings from Eduardo Galeano, Felicity of Carthage, Anselm of
Canterbury, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, and J. Heinrich
Arnold Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for
people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each
issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews,
and art.
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an
American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the
first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a
"great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for
the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand
temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the
Episcopal Church began planning what is known today as Washington
National Cathedral. In American Kairos, Richard Benjamin Crosby
chronicles the history of not only the building but also the idea
that animates it, arguing that the cathedral is a touchstone site
for the American civil religion-the idea that the United States
functions much like a religion, with its own rituals, sacred texts,
holy days, and so on. He shows that the National Cathedral can
never be the church L'Enfant envisioned, but it can be a starting
point for studying the conflicts of belonging, ideology, and
America's place in the world that define the American civil
religion. By examining correspondence between L'Enfant, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others, and by diving into
Washington National Cathedral's archives, Crosby uncovers a crucial
gap in the formation of the nation's soul. While L'Enfant's
original vision was never realized, Washington National Cathedral
reminds us that perhaps it can be. The cathedral is one of the
great rhetorical and architectural triumphs in the history of
American religion. Without government mandate or public vote, it
has claimed its role as America's de facto house of worship, a
civil religious temple wherein Americans conduct some of their
highest, holiest rituals, including state funerals and National Day
of Prayer services.
A growing interest in keeping livestock and living sustainably has
encouraged many people to keep poultry as part of a
self-sufficiency dream. This book is a practical guide for both
novice and experienced poultry-keeper alike. It identifies the
basic British poultry breeds and assesses the qualities of each,
explaining their attributes to help today's hobbyist understand
which breeds are most suited to their needs. Detailed photographs
clearly show the appearance of each breed and what should be looked
for or avoided when selecting breeding stock.
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