Living faithfully a hidden life: "The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch" @plough.bsky.social (Plus- The Mill on the Floss) Valuing virtue: roughlydaily.com/2026/03/21/t...

"Post-religious conservatism is producing its own successor ideology. It manifests in divergent forms – from technological maximalism, to a primitivism fixated on physical strength, imputed statistical differences between races, and phrenology." @plough.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

“When I asked him about it, the student replied that his draft was hard to wrangle. He couldn’t get the flow right. He didn’t like some of his transitions. So ChatGPT smoothed it out. Made it cleaner. Made it better. It wasn’t better.” —Anna Jordan

Some exciting post today - the latest @plough.bsky.social and from @beehivebooks.bsky.social a really beautiful edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder Book’ illustrated by the marvellous Das Pastoras.

Bold petitioners: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah!

A Quaker in colonial America works through questions of conscience in his journal: Can a Christian pay war taxes? Can a Christian join the military when drafted? Can a Christian billet active troops? By John Woolman www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

“I am so sorry, there is something wrong with the baby. We need to fetch the consultant.” Sarah C. Williams www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

The article’s title, “The Hartford Heresies,” became a popular moniker of dismissal by its progressive critics. But Neuhaus would note with satisfaction that the response from many laypeople was “an enormous sense of relief” Nathaniel Peters www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

"We live in a fretting world, and the gospel can be paraphrased, “Fret not, only believe.” More particularly, the people to whom you minister will be full of frettings, and you will be leading them from frettings into Christian peace." Michael Ramsey www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

I’m grateful to Rosemarie Garland-Thomson for reminding us in this essay of the humanity we share (and perhaps even discover) across perceived differences. @plough.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

In the mail, today @plough.bsky.social

"Mammon is money ruling over people. Subjected to the dominion of money ourselves, we lack the strength to rebel against its rule.” 🔥Eberhard Arnold www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

"She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a club on the head...in fact she is the cat's whiskers." Lord Peter on Miss Alexandra Kathleen Climpson.

I love listening to Golden Age murder mysteries as I quilt! what could be more delightful?

One of the most beautiful choral pieces I've had the privilege to sing.

Featured Book. The story of a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and her trust in Christ, even in the Holocaust. @plough.bsky.social

A good Easter read here. Well, ok, anytime is a good time to read Dorothy Sayers, love her. And @plough.bsky.social

Josef Rheinberger’s motet “Abendlied” juxtaposes sorrow and joy. @joelclarkson.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

We ought to be shocked at the crucifixion. By Dorothy L. Sayers www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

"The counsel of Palm Sunday is that Christians are free to enter into the depths of the world’s existence with nothing to offer the world but their own lives." William Stringfellow www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

"Distress teaches some to pray; it hardens others. Hardness is a defense mechanism which had at times its temptations for me also." Corrie ten Boom www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

"God moves in his own mysterious ways, but a great deal of the time he moves through us. And it is because we are not there that so many do not believe in God’s love." Alan Paton www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. —Flannery O’Connor www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

I read (listened to) Middlemarch for 1st time last fall/winter, and wish I'd done so earlier. "In Eliot’s moral philosophy, our original sin is not malice or any other positive evil but our deafness and short-sightedness about the needs and feelings of others." www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

"How else might we go about thinking about decline in our churches? I’d like to propose that reflection on death as we meet it in the lives of ordinary individuals might prove helpful." Karen Kilby An uplifting read about a sad subject. www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

"Volcanic eruptions of inordinate bloodlust, followed by merciless countermeasures, have intensified in certain quarters and spread to such an extent that it is necessary to say a clear word here." Eberhard Arnold www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

Today @plough.bsky.social 47 is out, featuring my short story 'Sieidi' - which has been beautifully illustrated

Summer City and I ate, and drank some wine and someone talked about the other men, the one I’d jeered about, and then another guy called Lazarus, and I didn’t understand. I only knew there was a difference in the room www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

I have a soft spot for both Thérèse of Lisieux and Friedrich Nietzsche, but this Karl Stern article is wonderful: www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

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...