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How did violence become OK? And is there any way back? At some
point between George Floyd's killing on May 25 and the invasion of
the US Capitol on January 6, America's consensus against political
violence crumbled. Before 2020, almost everyone agreed that it
should be out of bounds. Now, many are ready to justify such
violence - at least when it is their side breaking windows or
battling police officers. Something significant seems to have
slipped. Is there any way back? As Christians, we need to consider
what guilt we bear, with the rise of a decidedly unchristian
"Christian nationalism" that historically has deep roots in
American Christian culture. But shouldn't we also be asking
ourselves what a truly Christian stance might look like, one that
reflects Jesus' blessings on the peacemakers, the merciful, and the
meek? Oscar Romero, when accused of preaching revolutionary
violence, responded: "We have never preached violence, except the
violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross." If we take
Jesus' example and his call to nonviolence at face value, we're
left with all kinds of interesting questions: What about policing?
What about the military? What about participating in government?
This issue of Plough addresses some of these questions and explores
what a life lived according to love rather than violence might look
like. In this issue: - Anthony M. Barr revisits James Baldwin's
advice about undoing racism. - Gracy Olmstead describes welcoming
the baby she did not expect during a pandemic. - Patrick Tomassi
debates nonviolence with Portland's anarchists and Proud Boys. -
Scott Beauchamp advises on what not to ask war veterans. - Rachel
Pieh Jones reveals what Muslims have taught her about prayer. -
Eberhard Arnold argues that Christian nonviolence is more than
pacifism. - Stanley Hauerwas presents a vision of church you've
never seen in practice. - Andrea Grosso Ciponte graphically
portrays the White Rose student resistance to Nazism. - Zito Madu
illuminates rap's role in escaping the violence of poverty. -
Springs Toledo recounts his boxing match with an undefeated
professional. You'll also find: - An interview with poet Rhina P.
Espaillat - New poems by Catherine Tufariello - Profiles of
Anabaptist leader Felix Manz and community founder Lore Weber -
Reviews of Marly Youmans's Charis in the World of Wonders, Judith
D. Schwartz's The Reindeer Chronicles, Chris Lombardi's I Ain't
Marching Anymore, and Martin Espada's Floaters 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.
Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic,
Stephen Barr in this book addresses a wide range of questions about
the relationship between science and religion, providing a
beautiful picture of how they can co-exist in harmony. In his first
essay, "Retelling the Story of Science," Barr challenges the widely
held idea that there is an inherent conflict between science and
religion. He goes on to analyse such topics as the quantum creation
of universes from nothing, the multiverse, the Intelligent Design
movement, and the implications of neuroscience for the reality of
the soul. Including reviews of highly influential books by such
figures as Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould,
Francis S. Collins, Michael Behe, and Thomas Nagel, The Believing
Scientist helpfully engages pressing questions that often vex
religious believers who wish to engage with the world of science.
A pictorial history of the Lonz Winery on Middle Bass Island in
Ohio, with a wealth of information about the Lonz family, the
winery, and the history of the island.
A new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political
modernization Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role
played by society's middle layers in the historical development of
Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive
analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and
its profound impact on that country's cultural and political
landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class
intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats
forged a ""progressive"" nationalism and advanced an ambitious
cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together,
reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell
working-class revolutionary activism as they endeavored to
democratize culture and fortify liberal democracy. Using sources
that range from archival documents and newspapers to short stories,
novels, and school textbooks, Barr-Melej examines the reform
movement's cultural ideas and their political applications,
especially as they were articulated in the areas of literature and
public education. In the process, he provides a new framework for
understanding Chile's cultural and political evolution, as well as
the complicated place of the middle class in a society experiencing
the swift changes inherent in capitalist modernization.
A considerable amount of public debate and media print has been
devoted to the "war between science and religion." In his
accessible and eminently readable new book, Stephen M. Barr
demonstrates that what is really at war with religion is not
science itself, but a philosophy called scientific materialism.
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries
of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of
Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul
than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.
Scientific materialism grew out of scientific discoveries made from
the time of Copernicus up to the beginning of the twentieth
century. These discoveries led many thoughtful people to the
conclusion that the universe has no cause or purpose, that the
human race is an accidental by-product of blind material forces,
and that the ultimate reality is matter itself. Barr contends that
the revolutionary discoveries of the twentieth century run counter
to this line of thought. He uses five of these discoveries-the Big
Bang theory, unified field theories, anthropic coincidences,
Goedel's Theorem in mathematics, and quantum theory-to cast serious
doubt on the materialist's view of the world and to give greater
credence to Judeo-Christian claims about God and the universe.
Written in clear language, Barr's rigorous and fair text explains
modern physics to general readers without oversimplification. Using
the insights of modern physics, he reveals that modern scientific
discoveries and religious faith are deeply consonant. Anyone with
an interest in science and religion will find Modern Physics and
Ancient Faith invaluable.
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern
world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the
city's architecture and its general history, but little work has
explored the economic forces that created the skyline. This book
chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the
process, the book debunks some widely-held misconceptions about the
city's history. Part I lays out the historical and environmental
background that established Manhattan's real estate trajectory
before the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century.
The book begins with Manhattan's natural and geological history and
then moves on to how it influenced early land use and neighborhood
formation, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the
location of skyscrapers. Part II focuses specifically on the
economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the
reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. The
book discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they
appeared three miles to the north in midtown, but not in between.
Contrary to popular belief it was not due to the depths of
Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station.
Rather midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and
demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street
after the Civil War. The book also presents the first rigorous
investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring
Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a
rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city.
The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the
relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an
Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust
future skyline.
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