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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.
The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one
another. Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone.
Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the
disease has spread precisely because we aren't autonomous
individuals disconnected from each other, but rather all belong to
one great body of humanity. The pain inflicted by the pandemic is
far from equally distributed. Yet it reveals ever more clearly how
much we all depend on one another, and how urgently necessary it is
for us to bear one another's burdens. It's a good time, then, to
talk about solidarity. The more so because it's a theme that's also
raised by this year's other major development, the international
protests for racial justice following George Floyd's death. The
protests, too, raised the question of solidarity in guilt, even
guilt across generations. By taking up our common guilt with all
humanity, we come into solidarity with the one who bears it and
redeems it all. In Christ, sins are forgiven, guilt abolished, and
a new way of living together becomes possible. This solidarity in
forgiveness gives rise to a life of love. This issue of Plough
explores what solidarity means, and what it looks like to live it
out today, whether in Uganda, Bolivia, or South Korea, in an urban
church, a Bruderhof, or a convent.
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