Plough Quarterly No. 5

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is assistant director at the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He serves as an associate minister at St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He is a sought-after speaker and the author of more than a dozen books, including The Wisdom of Stability, God’s Economy, Strangers at My Door, and White Poverty with Bishop William J. Barber II.

Jonathan and Bishop Barber publish the popular Our Moral Moment newsletter on Substack. A senior democracy fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute, Jonathan has been featured in the documentary film Bad Faith and in news coverage from CBS News to CNN and The Washington Post. Learn more at www.jonathanwilsonhartgrove.com.

Johann Christoph Arnold (1940-2017) was an award-winning author with over two million copies of his twelve books in print in more than twenty languages. A noted speaker and writer on marriage, parenting, and end-of-life issues, he was a senior pastor of the Bruderhof, a movement of Christian communities, until his death in April 2017. His books include Why Forgive?, Rich in Years, Their Name Is Today, Seeking Peace, Escape Routes, Cries from the Heart, Be Not Afraid, Why Children Matter, and Sex, God, and Marriage.

""Dorothy Day, is a modern Catholic saint in the tradition of St. Francis. Her book is an absorbingly well-written series of pictures of her work and that of those she has gathered around her connection with the Catholic Worker, its hospitality house and its community farm. I rejoice with the new hope for mankind because of the kind of work that she and her associates are doing.""- Norman Thomas

Tom Cornell is a barrister and associate at Debevoise & Plimpton.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a renowned and beloved Christian minister, seminary professor, and theologian who was imprisoned and later executed by the Nazis for his resistance to Hitler. He was the author of the bestselling classic The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, and Letters and Papers from Prison.