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 8452 Plough Quarterly • Autumn 2016 What’s Next?  Martin wants to try melting the aluminum in guns to form knit- ting needles, which will be used to empower women in Afghanistan to earn their living. He’d also like to see affiliates in every state, because of the restrictions on shipping guns across state lines. “But converting guns has been the easy part,” he says. “The hard part is the human element and changing the way we deal with conflict. Turning guns into garden tools points us to what we need to do with ourselves; it compels us to use our imaginations to look at the other tools that are out there, like media- tion, talking circles, restorative justice, and anti-bullying programs. “I see us as that hot metal: if we allow ourselves to be vulnerable to the heat of confrontation, then the cold steel of the anvil and the hammer – the work of the community and the work of the Spirit – can shape us. It’s the hot steel – or the hothead – that is at its most impressionable, so when we have cool voices around us, or maybe the whisper of the Spirit, that can help shape us into better witnesses to Christ.”  Watch RAWtools beat on guns and explain why they do at plough.com/rawtools. To donate guns or purchase tools, see rawtools.org. For more on Americans’ devotion to guns, read America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé, by James E. Atwood (Wipf & Stock, 2012). Photos courtesy of RAWtools