Plough Quarterly No. 6: Witness

Publisher Marketing: The contributors to this issue of "Plough Quarterly" focus on what it means to bear witness to the gospel. Peggy Gish reports on the church s response to Boko Haram in Nigeria, where thousands of Christians have been killed. But in addition to witnesses who die for their faith, there are those who live for it, such as the families of those who died in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. And in the wake of the US Supreme Court s move to redefine marriage, we can t talk about Christian witness without considering marriage and sexuality. With insights from Russell Moore, N. T. Wright, Amy Carmichael, Pope Francis, George Fox, Ivan Illich, Julia Chaney-Moss, Nathaniel Peters, Channah Ben-Eliezer, Chico Fajardo-Heflin, Les Isaac, Paul Sanders, and Robert Paeglow, this issue is sure to stimulate reflection and discussion. And as if that weren t enough, you also get world-class art by Caravaggio, August Macke, Eric Drooker, Denis Barsukov, Pablo Picasso, George Tooker, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Janice Earley, John Singer Sargent, Paul Sanders, Paul Klee, Ghislaine Howard, and others. "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."

Contributor Bio:  Moore, Russell Russell D. Moore is President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Contributor Bio:  Gish, Peggy Gish is a longtime peace and social justice activist from southern Ohio. She has served as a social worker in rural Indiana and inner city Chicago,as co-director of the Appalachian Peace and Justice Network, as a conflictmanagement trainer, and a community mediator. Since 1995, Gish has been involved with Christian Peace Teams in the West Bank and Iraq. Contributor Bio:  Wright, N T N. T. (Tom) Wright is the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He is a prolific author and noted New Testament scholar. He has written more than thirty books, both at the scholarly level (including Jesus and the Victory of God, The Resurrection of the Son of God, and The Meaning of Jesus) and for a popular audience (including Simply Christian, The Meal Jesus Gave Us (WJK), and Who Was Jesus?). Contributor Bio:  Sanders, Paul Gilly Carr is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, UK. Contributor Bio:  Mommsen, Peter Peter Mommsen is the editor of Plough Quarterly magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Wilma and their three children. Contributor Bio:  Johnston, Devin Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of three previous books of poetry and two books of prose, including "Creaturely and Other Essays". He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.