Dissecting a cadaver taught me reverence for life and eternity. By Sofia Carozza www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Beautiful piece in @plough.bsky.social today on a Franciscan monastic community in Belgium www.plough.com/en/topics/co... "I could have been a lawyer, married, rich, and independent. Now I am celibate, poor, and obedient instead. But I am happy." #Francis800

I'm thrilled that my short fiction (yes, I do sometimes write short fiction) is featured in this next @plough.bsky.social - watch this space! ✍️

"There was a sense of something mysterious about [a childless couple] and their home—something about the abundance of a life that doesn’t look like everyone else’s—that lingers with me still." Thankful for @karenswallowprior.bsky.social's life and witness. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/kare...

"It often occurred to me that poor tortured Nietzsche with his violent cry of “No, no!” was in the eyes of God closer to her “Yes, yes!” than we are." Karl Stern on Thérèse of Lisieux & Nietzsche www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"After all, renunciation is never an end in itself; it is always a path to re-ordering and renewal." Heartfelt (and humorous) advice here. I love Sr. Carino Hodder's articles. thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-...

An ancient Irish saint exhorts us to sell our vices and buy life. By Saint Columban www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

Nowhere in the New Testament does “fellowship” imply pleasant social contacts. By Clarence Jordan www.plough.com/en/topics/co...

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will." @karenswallowprior.bsky.social on what *Jane Eyre* has to teach us about free will. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

"As modern readers observing from another time and culture, how might we best engage with talk of the devil and his army of demons in early Christian writings?" @womeninchurch.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

The most creative political solutions Christians have to offer our troubled society are not new laws, advice to policymakers, or social programs. By Stanley Hauerwas www.plough.com/en/topics/co...

As a child, this story fascinated me in a terrifying yet hopeful way. The violent ending of Danko troubled me, and I found it hard to put together the liberating joy of the lost people with Danko' s gruesome death. #Gorky www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

An Ash Wednesday devotion from Tish Harrison Warren www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

“The fundamental basis for feasting and fasting as Christian practices, Hooker writes, is that they teach us to rightly express the two central affections of Christian life, joy and grief.” —Benjamin Crosby

"The dark wood of late modernity is disenchanted, and to escape its nihilism, we need to re-enchant the world. Or so any number of recent books say." Joy Marie Clarkson www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

True communion with God doesn’t come with the popping of a pill. By Joseph Murphy www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

See how @rianjohnson.bsky.social's latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession. @sarahcoogan.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

My analysis of the integral and overlooked relationship between religion and detective fiction, focusing on Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man, is now live on @plough.bsky.social's website! www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

Plough’s Books & Culture editor, Joy Marie Clarkson shares why you should pick up the new edition of our Lenten devotional 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘦. This expanded edition adds dozens of voices, new and old, taking your daily readings all the way through Eastertide to Pentecost. youtube.com/shorts/8c8pR...

One of the oddest prophets was Søren Kierkegaard – a melancholic Dane who from the middle of the last century peered quizzically into this one, noting, before they happened, such tragicomic phenomena of our time as universal suffrage & affluence abounding. www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

As clouds of war loom, “doing something more” might include the ancient Russian practice of withdrawing to a poustinia. By Catherine de Hueck Doherty www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

If liberalism failed to deliver it, what can? By Stanley Hauerwas www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"Lest we be tempted to leave the devil behind in the fourth century, there are many contexts today in which we come across the devil." @womeninchurch.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

“The colors and sounds of #birds invite undivided attention, and learning the names of common species builds a #connection with the space around us.”: buff.ly/F8xBhKL from @plough.bsky.social #environment #nature #mindfulness #BirdWatching #animals

This is lovely. www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"Every single one of these people I knew twenty years ago is a complete person, a whole entire soul that is precious to God, and I have been confronted by the reality that it is an honor – a profound blessing and privilege – to have known them." Jane Clark Scharl www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"There is no peace for the man who takes himself for his starting point." Adolphe Monod www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

"We drift between Asimov’s control and Herbert’s chaos." For anyone, like me, who's read both these authors, this is a beautiful and helpful critique. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

Don’t be so sensitive. Detach yourself. Suffering will just make you depressed. You can’t make much difference anyway. By Albert Schweitzer www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Glancing through @plough.bsky.social 's quarterly magazine, I happened to notice their tagline: "Another life is possible." It led me to wonder what it would mean for my Christian community to live into and proclaim that idea.

One of my most coveted drinks as a child was Tang. My mother used to have a a jar for very special. It was way better than Kool-Aid. I had this same drink as an adult and it was awful. Did they change the recipe or did I change?!

Can a painting save you? Yes, if you're looking rightly, argues the illustrator Sean Rubin in this essay for @plough.bsky.social: "If education is about learning to see rightly, there is no better way to learn how to see than by looking at art." www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Karl Rahner helps us take angels seriously, even if they are admittedly hard to pin down. By Cameron Garden www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

"Saying goodbye is easier to cope with when you have had a relationship with the dying child – because the relationship is what ultimately remains." Veronika Kabas www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

Jesus’ words can’t be dismissed as an exaggeration. So how exactly should we follow them? By Martin Luther King Jr. www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Nature Poems to See By A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poetry www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

It's my 31 year baptism anniversary! "When I stepped out of the baptismal waters, dripping and joyful, I felt not that I had arrived, but that I must travel." I am still traveling on! www.plough.com/en/topics/co...

"The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility – of being unable to undo what one has done though one did not, and could not, have known what he was doing – is the faculty of forgiving." Hannah Arendt www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

Befriending your backyard sycamore can change your relationship with the natural world. Katelyn Beaty www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

The gargoyles and grotesques on Notre-Dame Cathedral look down and see themselves in us. @theefantomas.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"Patience, most certainly, can be an attribute of the truly great man – it is, perhaps, the crucial quality which enables him to seize upon reality and to use it." Romano Guardini www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

The utmost man can achieve on his own here capitulates before the unspeakable simplicity of the methods of God. Evelyn Underhill www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

"What nobody told me was that your conscience, or what feels like your conscience, can be entirely mistaken through no fault of your own." People I know are encouraged by this @oalannoble.bsky.social article. www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

“Many Westerners are afflicted with what has been described as an “allergy to #sincerity.” We avoid discussing topics of depth or lace them with irony to avoid discomfort.”: buff.ly/5doY4dM from @plough.bsky.social #BirdWatching #humanity #nature #society

"It is no exaggeration to say that without it, the community probably would have succumbed by now to one of the many crises it has weathered over the last one hundred years." Chris Zimmerman www.plough.com/en/topics/co...

Vintage Tolstoy from the end of *War and Peace* "... By loving people without cause, he discovered indubitable causes for loving them."

A good read for Christmastide. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...