From Jordan to Germany, the influx of refugees is straining goodwill to the breaking point. This issue of Plough Quarterly focuses on the second half of Jesus’ Great Commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. We found love of neighbor demonstrated by Christians and Muslims in ISIS-controlled Syria, and by volunteers who continue to welcome refugees despite growing public hostility. Here in election-year America, how do we as citizens live out love of neighbor in relation to immigrants? To the unborn threatened by abortion, and to their mothers? To prisoners, especially those held in solitary confinement for unconscionable terms and those on death row? To the victims of crime, and to the law enforcement officers charged with keeping the peace? To our youth, who are the ones most gravely harmed by our culture’s gender confusion? On all these fronts and many others, love of neighbor makes claims on us. But shouldn’t it start within the fellowship of believers, the church? When this happens, we can bear one another’s burdens – for example, those of the soldier returning from war, or the coworker battling an addiction. Perspectives from Navid Kermani, Neil Shigley, Denise Uwimana, Gerhard Lohfink, Michael Yandell, Teresa of Ávila, C.S. Lewis, John Stott, Matthew Loftus, Nathaniel Peters, Eberhard Arnold, Richard J. Foster, and Annemarie Wächter are sure to stimulate reflection and discussion. Then there’s new poetry by Laurie Klein, book reviews, a children’s story by Laura E. Richards, and world-class art by Dean Mitchell, Aristarkh Lentulov, Alex Vogel, Michael D. Fay, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Marc Chagall, Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov, and Sekino Jun’ichirō. 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. 8: Who Is My Neighbor (Plough Quarterly, 8)

Politics & Social Sciences

Klein, Laurie

FOSTER, Richard J.

Stott, John

Kermani, Navid

Lohfink, Gerhard

Arnold, Eberhard

Uwimana, Denise

Lewis. C.S.

Shigley, Neil

Yandell, Michael

Loftus, Matthew

Philosophy

Plough Publishing House

Killer gales and orcas, slickrock and storm toads, blackbirds, junipers, bathroom lizards-terrifying beauty infuses these poems as they probe and praise the tidal rhythms of love and faith, long-term. Meet Dreamer and Bean: reveling in God, each other, and Creation. Belief falls away for one of them like the self-pruning limb of a cottonwood tree. Marooned in the slash, the pair must trailblaze common ground. A lyrical field guide for journey mates, this collection explores perilous terrain for body and soul, and the price of a promise, over time.

Where the Sky Opens: A Partial Cosmography (Poiema Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cascade Books

Touch up old, cherished black-and-white photographs... or add little color and life to new photos. This guidebook presents a creative range of simple hand-coloring techniques. Fully illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions offer polished results on the very first try. 
--Clear, step-by-step demonstrations --Methods for coloring vintage photographs and photographs of people, nature, buildings, gardens, and more --Techniques for staining, toning, and dyeing photos, plus tips and tricks for mixing colors and creating effects with markers, paints, and pastels

Hand Coloring Black & White Photography: An Introduction and Step-By-Step Guide

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Quarry Books

Photographs are simple to work with and can be used to create projects that are uniquely personal and meaningful. The Photo Crafts Sourcebook explains two simple techniques - image transferring and hand-coloring - that can be used to create a lifetime of photo keepsakes, gifts, scrapbooks, and albums. Personalize a frame or a pillow with a favorite image or add color to old family photos. It's easy with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and color images of finished works. This beautifully illustrated guide features 250 color photos and offers detailed instructions for a host of easy projects.

Photo Crafts Sourcebook: Projects and Ideas for Making Photos Fun (Let's Start! Classic Songs)

McRee, Livia

Thunder Bay Pr

With a nuanced approach to this classic style of artistic expression, Laurie Klein elevates the female nude to ethereal levels through the use of digital infrared (IR) photography. Using IR-modified cameras, she designs scenes of her models in evocative natural settings that transform them into fairies, nymphs, and goddesses. In this book, she explores the creation of sixty of her most evocative images, revealing the artistic concepts underlying the scene selection, the choice of model, and the pose. For each of the featured portraits, supporting images show simple variations—other ideas Klein explored during the same session—and offer unique insight into the evolving process of photographic creation. While specific techniques offer insight into the challenges of digital IR imaging, photographers working in any medium will find valuable insights to enhance their approach to fine-art nude photography.

Photographing the Female Form with Digital Infrared

Amherst Media

Learn to harness and capture infrared wavelengths with an infrared-converted digital camera. The authors teach you how those invisible light wavelengths will be recorded in-camera and the steps you'll need to take to ensure the best-possible photographs. You'll study myriad images that show how various materials--from skin, hair, and eyes to the sky, trees, grasses, and clouds--will appear in your images and learn to predict the way that the colors and tones you perceive with yournaked eyes will be rendered in-camera. You will discover compositional techniques that will visually engage your audience. Finally, you'll learn how to use artistic applications to add selective color to your black & white infrared images, how to create dramatic color infrared photographs that take infrared capture to a whole new level, and how to edit your images in postproduction for enhanced contrast and superb detail.

Infrared Photography: Digital Techniques for Brilliant Images (Pro Photo Series)

Vandegrift, Shelley

Klein, Kyle

House of 49 Doors: Entries in a Life (Poiema Poetry Series)

Self-Help

Death & Grief

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