Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 7650 Plough Quarterly • Summer 2015 Disruptive Peacemaking Living Out God’s Impossible Standard E T H A N H U G H E S Ethan Hughes was thirteen when his father was killed by a drunk driver. When he later learned that thirty million people have died in automo- bile accidents – and after he witnessed a massive oil spill in the Amazon rainforest – he vowed he wouldn’t drive a car. Biking was but the first step on a road to radical simplicity that has since caught the imagination of thousands. E ight years ago my wife Sarah and I moved to La Plata, Missouri, and began a full-time attempt at peacemaking on an eighty-acre homestead. Our community’s name is Still Waters Sanctuary, taking inspira- tion from Psalm 23: “He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.” Since then, over ten thousand seekers from all over the world have visited us to experience a life without tractors, chainsaws, power tools, computers, televisions, smartphones, and most consumer goods and services. We strive to live free of electricity and petroleum products. If that sounds like we’re missing out, we are not. Instead, we’re blessed with goats, cows, chick- ens, ducks, bees, mushroom logs, and a herb garden. Our life includes weaving, spinning, hide tanning, canning and drying produce, and grinding grain with a pedal-powered mill. We grow food without chemicals and machines, offer our produce and hospitality without charge, and build our homes by hand with natural, local materials. We travel by Above: Candlesticks with home­ made beeswax candles stand ready for use at Still Waters Sanctuary. Photograph courtesy of Mari at www.gatherandgrow.org