Plough Quarterly No. 35 - Pain and Passion UK Edition

Pain is inevitable. Almost everyone is living with some kind of pain, <br>whether the cause is physical, emotional, financial, social, or spiritual. A<br>desire to escape it has led thousands of Canadians to seek euthanasia, and<br>countless others into opioid addiction. What can we learn from people around<br>the world for whom pain is a fact of life? How can we help others bear their<br>pain? How might the wisdom of earlier eras help us? What answers does faith offer?</p><br></p> <p><b>On this theme: </b></p> <p>- Navid Kermani visits farming Madagascar battling drought caused<br>by climate change. </p> <p>- Benjamin Crosby asks why churches haven't spoken out against<br>Canada's euthanasia experiment.</p> <p>- Tom Holland sums up the history of pain in two artworks and three<br>lives.</p> <p>- Lisabeth Button shares correspondence with a friend succumbing<br>to Alzheimer's.</p> <p>- Rick Warren demonstrated how our own suffering can lead to our<br>best ministry.</p> <p>- Wang Yi, an imprisoned Chinese pastor, calls churches to face<br>repression boldly.</p> <p>- Leah Libresco Sargeant profiles nuns providing palliative care.</p> <p><b>- </b>Eleanor Parker considers an Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Dream of the<br>Rood." </p> <p>- Brewer Eberly tells what he learned from an insufferable patient.</p> <p>- Randall Gauger, who lost his son to cancer, finds lessons in C.<br>S. Lewis.</p> <p><b>Also in the issue: </b></p> <p>- A report on the resurgence of bison by Nathan Beacom</p> <p>- Original poetry by Sofia M. Starnes and Julia Nemirovskaya</p> <p>- An excerpt from a new graphic novel, <i>By Water</i></p> <p>- Reviews of Barbara Kingsolver's <i>Demon Copperhead, </i> James K. A. Smith's <i>How to Inhabit Time, </i> and Nick Cave's and Seán O'Hagan's <i>Faith, Hope and Carnage.</i></p> <p>- Readings from Eduardo Galeano, Felicity of Carthage, Anselm of<br>Canterbury, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, and J. Heinrich Arnold</p><br></p> <p><b><i>Plough Quarterly</i></b><b> features stories, ideas, and culture</b> for people eager to apply their faith<br>to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, <br>poetry, book reviews, and art.</p>