Dori Moody
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Editor @Plough; Member @Bruderhof The Shire, Terebethia, Narnia Ingalls, Nesbit, Eager, Ransome
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will🕊️Jane Eyre "The words...are bold...but within the context of the narrative, the words – are even more astonishing."
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Jane Eyre Holds Her Own | Plough
Charlotte Bronte’s character still has much to teach us about free will.
https://www.plough.com/articles/jane-eyre-holds-her-own
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Richard Guisinger
6 days ago
Some good reading here, as usual from
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"The tendency of the church is perpetually to be covering up its own naked simplicity, forgetting that the truth is never so beautiful as when it stands in its own unadorned, God-given glory." Charles Spurgeon
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Praying for Revival | Plough
One reformation of the church is not enough.
https://www.plough.com/articles/praying-for-revival
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I have a soft spot for both Thérèse of Lisieux and Friedrich Nietzsche, but this Karl Stern article is wonderful:
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"Oh, you may think I am being hyperbolic, but I am convinced I am right. To be clear, I am talking about baseball in particular, not sport in general."
#DBH
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Jeff Gill
7 days ago
A marvelous little essay on history, transcendence, & perhaps a bit of faith.
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Hallowed and Haunted | Plough
What’s the point of visiting Monticello and Gettysburg?
https://www.plough.com/articles/hallowed-and-haunted
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"Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover;" Hannah Arendt
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The Faculty of Forgiving | Plough
The key to the “predicament of irreversibility” is forgiveness.
https://www.plough.com/articles/the-faculty-of-forgiving
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Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH)
8 days ago
My poem "tohu va-vohu" is published in
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Poem: Tohu va-Vohu | Plough
Tohu va-vohu is the Hebrew phrase at the beginning of Genesis to describe the earth.
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Ron Hogan
8 days ago
“At the very least, [baseball] offers us a glimpse into paradise – into childhood’s innocence, into Eden, into what Nicholas of Cusa called the walled garden of the divine essence – all under the aspect of play; and that is a great blessing.”— David Bentley Hart, for
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Running in Circles | Plough
There is only one truly redemptive form of memory: baseball.
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"The disciples were, so to speak, pretty much like the rest of us after all – a collection of no-good cowards and weaklings." Shusaku Endo
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Followers of a Powerless Master | Plough
What kept the twelve disciples, cowards and weaklings like the rest of us, dragging their feet along the road on the heels of their woebegone master?
https://www.plough.com/articles/followers-of-a-powerless-master
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"Do not, therefore, close your eyes before the sufferings of your neighbors. Do not fear that it will destroy your happiness if you live in sympathy with them." Emil Fuchs
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Michelle Van Loon
12 days ago
I am honored to have my review of a new introduction to modern martyr Edith Stein published at Mere Orthodoxy
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The Sure Way of Edith Stein
The greatest figures of prophecy and sanctity step forth out of the darkest night.
https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-sure-way-of-edith-stein/
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"...stupidity in [Arnold's] sense is a vice of complacency that particularly afflicts the educated bourgeoisie – the very people who make up the bulk of the readership of any small magazine." Peter Mommsen
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Stupidity Is the Greatest Sin | Plough
https://www.plough.com/articles/stupidity-is-the-greatest-sin
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"Robert takes us to the place where there are no answers. He allows those he touches to feel love."
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Christian F. Casper
15 days ago
I'm working this summer on digital accessibility for my courses. One of the best treatments of accessibility I know of is this piece a few years ago in
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Gina Dalfonzo
23 days ago
Coincidental timing -- this
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piece was published around the same time as my
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piece on Dickens's work vs. his life!
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#booksky
#literaturesky
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Richard Guisinger
21 days ago
Sometimes I’ll read something, or hear something, or experience something that draws from me the response, “There is a balm in Gilead.” This article drew that response from me. Thank you Stephen White and
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Richie
18 days ago
Where do I stand? I stand with Stanley.
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Stanley Hauerwas | The Good Life: If liberalism failed to deliver, what can? | Plough
YouTube video by Plough
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Bob on Books
20 days ago
Featured Book. Enjoying reading an early copy of this forthcoming book. Thurman writes of the inward transformation that must precede our efforts to transform the world.
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"Sooner or later we are confronted with the painful truth of our inadequacy and insufficiency. Our security is shattered and our bootstraps are cut." Brennan Manning
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The Gospel of Grace | Plough
We believe that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps – until they are cut.
https://www.plough.com/articles/the-gospel-of-grace
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"For a couple of reasons I find myself suspicious of calls for ecclesial kenosis." Karen Kilby
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It’s Not All Good, Man | Plough
Churches are in decline. How should Christians respond?
https://www.plough.com/articles/its-not-all-good-man
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Plough is thrilled to announce its inaugural annual short fiction contest, open to writers anywhere in the world. First prize = $2,000.
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Fiction Contest
Plough is seeking short fiction that honors the mysterious nature of reality and finds transcendence and redemption in unexpected places.
https://www.plough.com/en/contact-us/short-fiction-contest
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Christian F. Casper
23 days ago
Nice piece,
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Can we still appreciate great novels when we know their author behaved despicably?
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Can Bad People Write Good Books?
Can we still appreciate great novels when we know their author behaved despicably?
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/can-bad-people-write-good-books
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In Schubert’s piece, you can positively feel and smell the breezes and scents and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.
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The Trout Quintet
In Schubert’s piece, you can positively feel and smell the breezes and scents and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/the-trout-quintet
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"Karl Barth’s notion of preaching as an exposition of the Word of God is a helpful counterweight to these plans for LM-generated sermons."
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ChatGPT Goes to Church
Arlie Coles asks if large language models should write sermons and prayers.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/chatgpt-goes-to-church
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I love this essay because it relates how two novels changed the course of the author's life. Keep reading everyone! -The novel *Quo Vadis* converts a disillusioned Communist to Christianity.- By Ignace Lepp
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From Karl Marx to Jesus Christ
Marxist Ignace Lepp describes how reading Sienkiewicz’s novel Quo Vadis brought about his conversion to Christianity.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/from-karl-marx-to-jesus-christ
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God is a God incognito who does not manifest in great organ music or sublime ceremonies but who hides in the surprising face of the poor, in suffering (as in Jesus Christ), in the neighbor I meet, in fragility. Jacques Ellul
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A God Incognito
Jacques Ellul writes that God does not manifest himself in great organ music or sublime ceremonies but in the face of the poor, in suffering, in fragility.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/devotional-reading/a-god-incognito
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If salvation is now, what do we do with time? By Charles Williams
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Now Is the Day of Salvation
If salvation is now, what do we do with time?
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/now-is-the-day-of-salvation
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My favourite
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(the elder) reading of all time--always true; always hopeful! "We are dehydrated people; the thirst is almost killing us..."
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The Great Floodtide of the Spirit
There will be an immeasurably great change everywhere as soon as God sends forth his Spirit and when new life springs up among people of childlike faith.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/pentecost/the-great-floodtide-of-the-spirit
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Nikos Leverenz
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"If we see solitude and stillness primarily as a means to more productivity, we will try to get by with just enough... But if these practices are essential to our very being [then] we will orient our work and our days, our weeks and our years, around them."
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The Secret of the Third Monk
Many might think the monk wasted his life. What did he contribute to society, or to the GDP, or to the causes of justice?
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It is criminal that I am only now discovering Georges Simenon at this point in my life. How is it possible that I knew of Tintin, but not Maigret?!
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War and Christianity are like the opposite ends of a balance, of which one is depressed by the elevation of the other. By Jonathan Dymond
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War: A Moral Gangrene
War and Christianity are like the opposite ends of a balance, of which one is depressed by the elevation of the other.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/war-a-moral-gangrene
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Christian F. Casper
about 1 month ago
Reflections on the Ascension and Pentecost by St. Óscar Romero Ascension Sunday will have a Pentecostal flavor in our family this year — our fourteen-year-old (along with ninety-seven others in the parish) is receiving Confirmation on Saturday evening, the vigil of the Ascension 🔥
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"All has been created by God, but humans have subjected it to sin. And so Christ’s ascension proclaims that the whole creation will also be redeemed in him" Oscar Romero
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Reflections on Ascension
Two excerpts from The Violence of Love, a book of homilies by Óscar Romero.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/pentecost/reflections-on-ascension
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The fertility industry pushes IVF as an answer to the pain of childlessness. But at what cost?
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Is There a Right to Have Children?
Matthew Lee Anderson writes that the fertility industry pushes childless couples toward IVF as an answer to the pain of childlessness. But at what cost?
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/is-there-a-right-to-have-children
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Mark Eli Kalderon
about 2 months ago
"The true adversary was the machinery of fashionable cynicism sweeping through modern culture. Beneath its cloak of anonymity and its pretense of commentary, the magazine’s writers had turned what we now know as rage-bait into a profitable art."
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When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled
Mocked by Copenhagen’s most notorious scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of deeply personal attacks and the silence of friends and allies.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/when-kierkegaard-got-cancelled
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Jason G. Edwards
2 months ago
My latest
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"Alas, joys are not what he has been sending us for some time, it is the cross and only the cross that he gives us to rest upon…." Thérèse Martin, a fifteen-year-old postulant in the Carmelite convent at Lisieux:
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Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way vs. Friedrich Nietzsche’s Big Guns
Two nineteenth-century contemporaries had very different views on how to live.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/therese-of-lisieuxs-little-way-vs-friedrich-nietzsches-big-guns
about 2 months ago
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War and Peace and Cabbage
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"The way that I grew up even after the Berlin Wall came down, people just weren’t religious, it just wasn’t there." Katja Hoyerin a fascinating interview w Joy Clarkson
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Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
A German historian discusses her new book on Weimar and how the Communists stifled religion.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/life-on-the-edge-of-catastrophe
about 2 months ago
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"Ours is a tragic century where men are faced with tremendous decisions....This is also the age of neuroses, of euphoriants – all symbols of man’s desire to escape from reality, responsibility and decision-making." Catherine de Hueck Doherty
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Lawrence Wilkinson
3 months ago
Living faithfully a hidden life: "The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch"
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(Plus- The Mill on the Floss) Valuing virtue:
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Lily Fiore
3 months ago
"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."
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Knowing What Time It Is
What will our politics look like after Christianity? A tour of the post-religious right.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/knowing-what-time-it-is?utm_source=Plough+-+English&utm_campaign=1bf8a794ee-Dig&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4cbb94afa4-1bf8a794ee-296175561
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Plough Quarterly
2 months ago
“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
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AI Editing Is Botox
What do we lose when we smooth out the natural wrinkles in our faces and our writing?
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/ai-editing-is-botox
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Greg Daly
2 months ago
Some exciting post today - the latest
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and from
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a really beautiful edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder Book’ illustrated by the marvellous Das Pastoras.
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Christian F. Casper
2 months ago
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Bold petitioners: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah!
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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
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Scruples of Conscience
The Quaker John Woolman kept a journal containing his thoughts on the Christian attitude toward military service, payment of war taxes, and billeting troops
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/conscientious-objection/scruples-of-conscience
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“I am so sorry, there is something wrong with the baby. We need to fetch the consultant.” Sarah C. Williams
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Perfectly Human
Why did Sarah Williams decide to carry her baby to term after she found out that the child had a lethal deformity? When she realized that Cerian was perfectly human.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/perfectly-human-what-my-daughter-taught-me
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