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 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84Plough Quarterly B R E A K I N G G R O U N D F O R A R E N E W E D W O R L D Autumn 2016, Number 10 Editor’s Letter Peter Mommsen 3 Readers Respond 5 New Books from Plough 6 Family and Friends 7 Viewpoint: Death Knell for Just War John Dear 8 Lives: Remembering Daniel Berrigan John Dear 10 Letter from Erbil: My Return to Iraq Yacoub Yousif 13 Feature: What Makes Humans Sacred? Richard Dawkins’s Cure for Down Syndrome Erna Albertz 16 Reading: The Gospel of Life Pope John Paul II 24 Interview: Jesus and the Death Penalty Shane Claiborne 26 How Pro-Life Was the Early Church? Ronald J. Sider 34 Insights Pope Francis 35 Spencer Perkins 37 The Didache 39 A World Where Abortion Is Unthinkable Shelley Douglass 41 Snapshots: Gardening with Guns Sam Hine 44 A Good Death: A Nurse Questions Euthanasia Steven Fouch 53 Behold the Glory of Pigs Joel Salatin 58 Poem: An Apology for Vivian Joseph Michael Fino 67 Reviews and Essays Editors’ Picks 65 Can Germany Integrate One Million Refugees? Roger Mielke 68 In Praise of George MacDonald Marianne Wright 76 Reading: Who Invented Thirst and Water? George MacDonald 79 Forerunners: Muhammad Ali Jason Landsel 80 Artists: Pawel Kuczynski, Xenia Hausner, William H. Johnson, Käthe Kollwitz, Deidre Scherer, Jason Landsel W W W. P L O U G H . C O M