Pastor and family counselor Johann Christoph Arnold offers down-to-earth insights every parent can apply. His prose is simple, straight to the heart and filled with wisdom. For all who read it, A Little Child Shall Lead Them will bring insight and renewal to the joyous task of rearing children.

A Little Child Shall Lead Them: Hopeful Parenting in a Confused World

Arnold, Johann Christoph

Religion & Spirituality

Intervarsity Pr

This issue of Plough Quarterly explores the effects of technology on human flourishing. Whether its artificial intelligence, genome editing, Big Tech monopolies, or social media–induced depression, we live in a world that is being reshaped by technology from the ground up. How do we stay human? This issue of Plough Quarterly addresses challenges ranging from the lure of transhumanism to the erosion of silence by the smartphone. Technophobia is no answer, our contributors agree, but neither is a refusal to tackle real dangers. They ask: Why not try living without a computer or a television? Why give tablets to children when Steve Jobs refused to give them to his kids? Why write using a keyboard when you could wield a fountain pen? Technological asceticism of this kind won’t solve society-wide dilemmas. But it can help us maintain the spiritual independence needed to respond to them rightly. Also in this issue: original poetry by Jacob Stratman; reviews of new books by Ian Johnson, Steve Roud, and Markus Rathey; insights from Wendell Berry, Viktor Frankl, Ivan Illich, Carl Sandburg, C. S. Lewis, Alfred Delp, and Christoph Blumhardt; and art by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jack Baumgartner, Nicholas Roerich, Rachel Newling, Kay Polk, Suellen McCrary, Stephen Scott Young, Jie Wei Zhou, Kiéra Malone, Torkel Pettersson, Mari Rast, Albrecht Dürer, René Magritte, and Kyle T. Webster. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.

Plough Quarterly No. 15 - Staying Human: Tech Issue (Plough Quarterly, 15)

Berry, Wendell

Rhodes, John

Bauerlein, Mark

Bennett, Stephanie

Delp, Alfred

Britts, Philip

Arnold, Eberhard

Black, Susannah

Swinger, Maureen

Plato, Michael

Sargeant, Alexi

Fajardo-Heflin, Chico

McRay, Michael T.

Dolan, Timothy Cardinal

Lewis. C.S.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Plough Publishing House

This volume takes a radical look at today's views of love, sex and human relationships, and calls readers to the freedom of purity and the joy of a Christ-centred life. It contains insights gleaned from generations of pastoral care and from the shared life of a Church community committed to the struggle for openness and honesty. This book attempts to get to the root of the issues: people's relationship with God, and the defining power of that relationship over all other relationships. It should be of interest to young, single adults looking for lasting and genuine relationships, couples seeking to find or regain a greater sense of unity and intimacy, and parents who wish they knew how to guide their childen through the confusion of adolescence.

A Plea for Purity: Sex, Marriage, and God

Plough Pub. House

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Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

How close do we dare to get to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount? It’s widely considered the key to understanding who Jesus was and what mission he strove to fulfill. For two millennia, countless people have wrestled to apply it, from Augustine to Luther to Tolstoy to Gandhi. Alongside much wisdom, there has been much evasion, prompting Jewish theologian Pinchas Lapide’s tart comment: “The history of the impact of the Sermon on the Mount can largely be described in terms of an attempt to domesticate everything in it that is shocking, demanding, and uncompromising, and render it harmless.” There’s good reason for this: Jesus’ teaching is deeply disruptive. It demands a top-to-bottom reordering of life, work, and social relations, starting with radical economic sharing, nonresistance and love of enemies, lifelong marriage, and unconditional forgiveness. This issue of Plough Quarterly focuses on people willing to get their hands dirty living out the Sermon on the Mount. Their ranks include Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Wesley, Henri Nouwen, Mother Teresa, and others you’ll meet in these pages. Their insights are not to be consumed passively. Rather, they should inspire and equip each of us to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Bold, hope-filled, and down-to-earth, Plough Quarterly features thought-provoking articles, commentary, interviews, short fiction, book reviews, poetry and artwork to inspire everyday faith and action. Each issue brings together essential voices from many traditions to give you fresh insights on a core theme such as peacemaking, biblical justice, children and family, building community, man and woman, nature and the environment, nonviolence, or simple living. Starting from the conviction that the teachings and example of Jesus can transform and renew our world, it aims to apply them to all aspects of life, seeking common ground with all people of goodwill regardless of creed.

Plough Quarterly No. 1: Living the Sermon on the Mount

Christian Books & Bibles

Moore, Russell D.

Day, Dorothy

Kierkegaard, Søren

MOTHER TERESA

Moltmann, Jürgen

Cavalli, Patrizia

Smith, C. Christopher

Kollwitz, Käthe

Kyber, Manfred

Wuerl, Cardinal Donald

Stoltzfus, Duane

Nouwen, Henri J.M.

Christian Living

In this issue, we explore why children and childhood are at the heart of the gospel – and of God’s plan for restoring the world. Hear from Johann Christoph Arnold on “Discovering Reverence,” Joan Almon on “Kindergartners Are Humans,” and Glen Stanton on “Why Dads Toss Babies.” A surgeon shares what he’s learned from children with disabilities, while dispatches from Ferguson, Missouri, the US–Mexico border, and the South Bronx focus on places where childhood is especially threatened. Other contributors examine public, homeschool, and Christian education; highlight the role of fathers; and grapple with Jesus’ uncomfortable version of family values.Bold, hope-filled, and down-to-earth, Plough Quarterly features thought-provoking articles, commentary, interviews, short fiction, book reviews, poetry and artwork to inspire everyday faith and action. Each issue brings together essential voices from many traditions to give you fresh insights on a core theme such as peacemaking, biblical justice, children and family, building community, man and woman, nature and the environment, nonviolence, or simple living. Starting from the conviction that the teachings and example of Jesus can transform and renew our world, it aims to apply them to all aspects of life, seeking common ground with all people of goodwill regardless of creed.

Plough Quarterly No. 3: Childhood (Plough Quarterly, 3)

Biographies & Memoirs

CARSON, Rachel

KOZOL, JONATHAN

Almon, Joan

Jordan, Clarence

Stanton, Glenn T.

Froebel, Friedrich

Romero, Óscar

WIECHERT, ERNST

Sider, Ron

Lasalle-Klein, Robert

Rivers, Eugene

Community & Culture

There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide. Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships have helped more than a million readers through life’s challenges, draws on the stories and voices of parents and educators on the ground, and a wealth of personal experience. He surveys the drastic changes in the lives of children, but also the groundswell of grassroots advocacy and action that he believes will lead to the triumph of common sense and time-tested wisdom. Arnold takes on technology, standardized testing, overstimulation, academic pressure, marketing to children, over-diagnosis and much more, calling on everyone who loves children to combat these threats to childhood and find creative ways to help children flourish. Every parent, teacher, and childcare provider has the power to make a difference, by giving children time to play, access to nature, and personal attention, and most of all, by defending their right to remain children.

Their Name Is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World

En este libro revolucionario, Arnold, quien ha sido pastor durante casi cuarenta años, aborda el dolor resultante de la ruptura de relaciones y el abuso de la intimidad sexual. Él proporciona ideas bíblicas frescas sobre los asuntos críticos que incluyen la santidad del sexo, la lucha contra la tentación, la decisión de mantenerse soltero o casado, la educación de los hijos, el divorcio y el casarse nuevamente. Dios, sexo y matrimonio, ofrece sanación a cualquiera que haya conocido el desaliento o la culpa – y le da esperanzas a cualquiera que desee tener una mirada completamente nueva sobre un tema de interés y preocupación universal.

Dios, sexo y matrimonio (Spanish Edition)

No pierdas el ánimo ―¡puedes salvarlo! Nos lo asegura el autor de este libro, padre de ocho hijos y numerosos nietos. Los consejos de Arnold son prácticos antes que teóricos. Aborda temas educativos de actualidad, a saber, el uso de drogas como el Ritalín®, las pruebas estandarizadas, los niños «difíciles», el espíritu competitivo y la importancia del juego infantil. Este libro es para ti, madre, padre o maestro, y todos aquellos preocupados por la suerte de los niños. No quiere abrumarte con nuevos consejos sino orientarte de acuerdo con tu sabiduría innata.

Su Nombre is hoy (Spanish Edition)

In this groundbreaking book, Arnold, a pastor for over forty years, provides fresh biblical insights into critical issues including the sacredness of sex, the struggle against temptation, the decision to remain single or to marry, child rearing, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage. Sex, God, and Marriage offers healing to anyone who has known discouragement or failure – and hope to anyone who is willing to take a bold new look at a topic of universal interest and concern. Unlike the vast majority of marriage books, Sex, God, and Marriage digs deeper than the usual issues and goes to the root: our relationship with God, and the defining power of that relationship over all others in our lives.

Sex, God, and Marriage

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