Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

Words written by Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a pacifist interracial Christian community in Georgia, taken from a Plough book, The Inconvenient Gospel.

Kurt Armstrong writes that not everyone can build skyscrapers; someone has to address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.

Matthew Sitman and Sohrab Ahmari discuss friendship across political divides.Both men have made their careers in political media and have made significant changes in their politics over the course of their lives – in Sohrab’s case, very publicly. These changes have affected some friendships and have left others intact.Sohrab and Matt and Susannah discuss the phenomenon of friendship that transcends politics, how difficult that can be, how painful when it doesn’t work, but how good when it does.They also discuss the social peculiarities of Left and Right, and challenge Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundationalism. They reflect on what Christianity must say to enmity and friendship, and end with an excursus on Dimes Square.

Benjamin Crosby, a young minister in a declining church, looks for reasons to hope.

In a short story by Narine Abgaryan, survivors of war in 1990s Armenia find a reason to go on living.

Peter Mommsen writes that modern life depends on the habit of discarding things. What if we fixed them instead?

Saharawi Mine Action Team members remove mines and plant trees in the Algerian Desert of Western Sahara.

Rowan Williams reminds us that in the birth of Christ, God comes to restore and set free every person and all creation.

Leah Libresco Sargeant discusses conflict as a part of debate and the activities of the Braver Angels Debates and Discourse program.

Antoine E. Davis and Aaron Edward Olson, both inmates, took risks to withstand the racism within the prison.