Plough Quarterly No. 36 - Money

Main Description: This issue opens with the story of Melania and her real estate-magnate

husband, who decide to divest themselves of their entire wealth. These early

Christians, who sold off their many estates and freed eight thousand slaves,

were only exceptional in the amount they gave away. Jesus, after all, had

advised a rich man, "Go, sell your

possessions, and give the money to the poor." And he emphatically warned that

you cannot serve two masters: you cannot serve God and money. What does that

mean for Christians today, in a society and economy premised on the

accumulation of capital? How can we resist and subvert the power of money?

On this theme:

- Clare Coffey looks at how multilevel marketing commodifies

friendship.

- Sharon Rose Christner describes what happens when a Vatican palace

becomes a homeless shelter.

- Alastair Roberts writes in praise of Mary of Bethany's extravagant

love.

- A photojournalist asks what's left of the Cuban Revolution

seventy years after it began.

- Jack Bell revisits William Cobbett's spirited defense of the

vanishing British commons.

- Maria Weiss finds pain and friendship in the forced community of

a leper colony.

- Maureen Swinger reveals the joys and pitfalls of owning twenty-two

cars (collectively).

- Robert Lockridge describes what he's learned running a pay-as-you-can

caf?.

Also in the issue:

- The winning poems in the 2023 Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award

contest

- An excerpt from Eugene Vodolazkin's new novel, A History of the Island

- Reviews of Kerri n? Dochartaigh's Thin Places, Lydia Millet's Dinosaurs,

and Jennifer Banks's Natality

- Readings on Christianity and money from Eberhard Arnold, Peter Riedemann, Nicolai Berdyaev, Basil

of Caesarea, Maria Skobtsova, C. S. Lewis, and Dorothy Day

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.