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 14Plough 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 Winter 2015, Number 3 Readers Respond 4 Family and Friends 5 Letter from Germany: Legacy of a Pioneer Else Arnold 6 The Naturalist: Seizing Moments of Awe Bill Wiser 7 Family Corner: Daring to Sing Maureen Swinger 8 Setting the Table at Koinonia Farm Bren Dubay 9 Feature: Childhood Discovering Reverence Johann Christoph Arnold 10 Schooling Me, the Surgeon Joseph Dutkowsky 16 What’s the Point of a Christian Education? Christiaan Alting von Geusau 22 Every Child Is a Thought of God Eberhard Arnold 26 Kindergartners Are Humans Joan Almon 27 Charity Is No Substitute for Justice Jonathan Kozol 30 Should Christians Abandon Public Schools? Catherine McNiel 33 Why Dads Matter Glenn T. Stanton 36 Jesus’ Surprising Family Values Charles Moore 40 Letter from the Texas–Mexico Border Kerstin Keiderling 42 Poetry and Story Noah: A Wordless Story Mark Ludy 44 Poem: Carol of the Seekers Philip Britts 73 Reviews Digging Deeper 32 New Books from Plough 51 Reclaiming a Literary Giant: Ernst Wiechert Daniel Hallock 52 Editors’ Picks 55 From the Frontlines Nonviolence in the Age of ISIS Ron Sider 56 Blood and Ink: The Martyrs of El Salvador Robert Lasalle-Klein 60 Dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri Eugene Rivers 68 Soldier of the Lamb: Larry Mason Jason Landsel 71 Artists: Pablo Picasso, Carlton Murrell, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, Konstantin Makovsky, Victor Borisov Musatov, John Everett Millais, Philipp Otto Runge W W W. P L O U G H . C O M