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"In an age when we seem to spend much of our lives online theres a growing hunger for the material the tangible the sacramental and people are beginning to take a greater interest in the reassuring rhythms of the ritual year. @SketchesbyBoze https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/a-light-to-lighten-the-gentiles https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/a-light-to-lighten-the-gentiles"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:58Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Candlemas remains one of the lesser-known feast days however having never quite recovered the glory and pageantry with which it was celebrated from the Early Middle Ages to the Reformation. Perhaps the festival is due for a revival. @SketchesbyBoze https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/a-light-to-lighten-the-gentiles https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/a-light-to-lighten-the-gentiles"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:58Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"You spend your whole day praying; that part of your brain is activated This was Teresas sixteenth-century take on levitation: in ecstasy the soul is pulled toward heaven so strongly so quickly so irresistibly that the body must follow.Carlos Eire https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/supernatural/miracles-are-not-magic https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/supernatural/miracles-are-not-magic"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:01Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Traherne talks about the creation as the frontispiece of eternity: the front page of a book which is charged with the promise of what lies within. Its not obscuring; its promising. Everywhere he looks he sees eternity announcing itself. @BenQuash https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/how-does-beauty-shape-the-christian-imagination https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/how-does-beauty-shape-the-christian-imagination"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:03Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"You dont have to give up motherhood if you dont have children of your own. By Alice von Hildebrand https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/spiritual-motherhood https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/spiritual-motherhood"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:26Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Following Jesus will always be harder than following a Jordan Peterson. Jesus calls men not only to swim against the cultural tide but to overcome what they have been told are irresistible drives for domination and sex. Noah Van Niel https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/leadership/manly-virtues https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/leadership/manly-virtues"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:15Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"A mother is the very essence of femininity. We have got to be mothers . I totally reject the idea that you are not a mother unless you have children of your own. Alice von Hildebrand https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/spiritual-motherhood https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/spiritual-motherhood"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:19Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Assisted suicide offers the dying a mirage of control and it eliminates physical suffering on ones own terms. In wanting to avoid becoming a burden to us my mom sought to shield us from her suffering and ours. Jaimie Wright https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/the-wish-i-could-not-honor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/the-wish-i-could-not-honor"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:15Z 16K followers, [----] engagements

"I dont need my son to think of me as Superman; I hope he learns from me to be a husband and father who does the little needful things day after day occupying as a favorite poem of mine puts it loves austere and lonely offices. @EliJamesJones96 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/climbing-through-the-ropes https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/climbing-through-the-ropes"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:24Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"In every sunbeam that shines on us in every little wild flower in everything that lives and moves on earth there is something of the kingdom of God. Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/children-and-faith https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/children-and-faith"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:34Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"In the Minneapolis area Join us next week at Anselm House We will be discussing Plough's most recent issue focusing in particular on "Six Ways to Resist the Machine" by Paul Kingsnorth. 📆 Feb [--] at [--] pm 📍@AnselmHouseUMN Minneapolis MN https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/minneapolis-plough-reader-meetup https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/minneapolis-plough-reader-meetup"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:34Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"The church does not need to win. It needs to witness to demonstrate by its life its joy its suffering its hope that Jesus Christ is Lord. Stephen White https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/the-gospel-is-public-truth https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/the-gospel-is-public-truth"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:40Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Here it is my dearest winter dearer than the fall or spring. Here it is my native country where Im always wintering. Julia Nemirovskaya and @BorisDralyuk https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-winter https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-winter"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:24Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"When that teacher remarked to me that my children brought something special to the school I would say what he spotted was the Calder Valley and an older English culture they had connected with and brought with them without relinquishing their Jewishness. Atar Hadari https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/raising-jewish-children-in-northern-england https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/raising-jewish-children-in-northern-england"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:19Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"True communion with God doesnt come with the popping of a pill. By Joseph Murphy https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:13Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Once the supernatural has gone from Christianity what remains Well-meaning sentiment and a set of commandments found to be crushing the profound character of the change they were meant to serve having been summarily dismissed. Erik Varden https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/in-defense-of-chastity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/in-defense-of-chastity"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:58Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"See how @rianjohnson's latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession. By Sarah Coogan https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/wake-up-dead-man https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/wake-up-dead-man"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:24Z 16K followers, 11.3K engagements

"The man who loves God with his very life and his neighbour as Christ loves him is the man who alone is capable of grand perfect glorious love to any woman. George MacDonald https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/marriage/love-and-marriage-excerpts-from-gospel-in-george-macdonald https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/marriage/love-and-marriage-excerpts-from-gospel-in-george-macdonald"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:13Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Rodents are having a moment. Look in any trendy restaurant no a little further down and you may find rats. Guinea pigs overwhelm Gothams animal shelters; a rare beaver even surprised passersby on the Williamsburg Bridge this spring. Phil Christman https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/vows-in-brief https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/vows-in-brief"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:11Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Were at @nyencounter this weekend Stop by our table and pick up a free Quarterly"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:44Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"In opposition to this world we are offered by Christ a different path: renunciation of material attachments radical simplicity love of our neighbor and a willingness to follow the kingdom of God rather than the kingdom of man. Paul Kingsnorth https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/six-ways-to-resist-the-machine https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/six-ways-to-resist-the-machine"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:07Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Hidden seasons loosen our grip on approval. They free us from the need to impress. They teach us to serve because we are already known by God. These quiet stretches become a kind of detox for the soul. Johnny Rivera https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-slow-work-beneath-the-surface https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-slow-work-beneath-the-surface"
X Link 2026-02-16T19:24Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Countless visitors to the Vatican Museums stand amazed before this masterpiece every day. Do they believe that it will really be like this one day heaven and hell Do I believe not theoretically but quite soberly that one day it will be decided for me too: eternal happiness or eternal damnation Christoph Cardinal Schnborn https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/believing-in-the-last-judgment https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/believing-in-the-last-judgment"
X Link 2026-02-16T12:58Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Paul was not goaded against his will into a new way of seeing reality. He might well have chosen to spend the rest of his life resenting God for the loss of his sight instead of allowing himself to be molded so as to see God afresh. Joseph Murphy https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:23Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Seeing someone else cry shattered me again. The idea that maybe Im not the only one carrying something unbearable arrived without warning. Sharukh Bamboat https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/losing-faith-finding-light https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/losing-faith-finding-light"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:04Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"An internship for the farmer-philosopher that combines book and magazine editing and hands-on regenerative farming. Join us this June applications open for one more week"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:54Z 16K followers, 38.4K engagements

"The empire of money war and fire cuts across the land. There are in the same country shepherds watching their flocks. Wendell Berry https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/six-new-poems-by-wendell-berry https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/six-new-poems-by-wendell-berry"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:14Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"We desire that God make himself known to us that the mystery of who he is captivates the entirety of our hearts imaginations and wills. But we desire that this captivation be an authentic union a communion where God in the freedom of who he is chooses to give himself and make himself known. Joseph Murphy https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:09Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Another child turns four and a half and is convinced from the bottom of her sparkly heart that this is as deserving of a party as an actual birthday. Is she wrong No she is not. So we make cupcakes cover the house in balloons. @CaitrinKeiper https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/children-of-terabithia https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/children-of-terabithia"
X Link 2026-02-16T18:30Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"If a full month doesn't work for you check out our Young Writers Weekend: https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/plough-young-writers-weekend-2026 https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/plough-young-writers-weekend-2026"
X Link 2026-02-16T19:30Z 16K followers, [--] engagements

"There's also a UK version of the Writers Weekend as well June 26-28: https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/uk-plough-young-writers-weekend-2026 https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/uk-plough-young-writers-weekend-2026"
X Link 2026-02-16T19:30Z 16K followers, [--] engagements

"Illuminate: Arts and Faith Conference 📆March 23-24 📍Southern Adventist U @SouthernNews Collegedale TN Join Plough editor Maureen Swinger and many other speakers and attendees for [--] rich days of education inspiration and community. Learn more and register here: https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/illuminate-arts-and-faith-conference https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/illuminate-arts-and-faith-conference"
X Link 2026-02-16T19:59Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"The sky the sun the stars and outer space are on their own eerily silent and impersonal. Yet their silence and impersonality are broken when the gift of faith opens our eyes to see creation not as a seething random mass of atoms but as replete with symbols that whisper the name of their Creator. Joseph Murphy https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/why-god-doesnt-need-psychedelics"
X Link 2026-02-16T20:05Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"It feels rather like standing on a lookout post of the Titanic spotting an iceberg and urgently signaling the bridge to change course only to be told that the real issue is a mentality that insists on seeing icebergs as threats rather than opportunities. @benjamindcrosby https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/leadership/zero-episcopalians https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/leadership/zero-episcopalians"
X Link 2026-02-16T21:36Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

""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." @joynessthebrave https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/supernatural/against-reenchantment https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/supernatural/against-reenchantment"
X Link 2026-02-17T02:06Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

""And this is the paradox: that not only the sadness of the world but also its joy contains extreme loss; but in the case of spiritual things it is exactly the reverse; and not the joy only but the sadness too contains a rich treasure of good things" John Chrysostom https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/meditations-for-lent/is-it-possible-to-rejoice-continually https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/meditations-for-lent/is-it-possible-to-rejoice-continually"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:31Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"I'm your host @joynessthebrave. And today I am delighted to be joined by two very thoughtful guests. Im welcoming to the show @HaejinMako and @iamfujimura. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/on-beauty-and-justice https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/on-beauty-and-justice"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:53Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"The act of witnessing examining and attempting to comprehend the vast complexity of the natural world often leads scientists to experiences of awe and wonder congruent with religious experiences or what others feel in the presence of great art. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/in-deep-water-off-antarctica https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/in-deep-water-off-antarctica"
X Link 2026-01-02T18:33Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"O Jesus my love at last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love In the heart of the Church my Mother I will be LOVE Thus shall I be all things. Thrse of Lisieux https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/insights-on-vocation https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/insights-on-vocation"
X Link 2026-01-02T19:10Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"What does it tell us about our own era that our villains can be thoroughly evil but our heroes cant be thoroughly good Were weighed down by despair and therefore prone to cynicism. @prof_tom_ward https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/middle-earth-heroes https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/middle-earth-heroes"
X Link 2026-01-03T14:55Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I still find something to admire in the ugly church I once called home. Its austerity embodied hope for an undistracted form of worship that the faithful might inhabit a singularity of devotion. Natalie Carnes https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/icon-or-idol https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/icon-or-idol"
X Link 2026-01-05T17:22Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I feel like those blurred glass windows in bathrooms: still technically a window letting light in but not clarity of image warped a little defined more by what makes it peculiar than where it fits the norm. Aberdeen Livingstone https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/health/chronically-healthy-chronically-ill https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/health/chronically-healthy-chronically-ill"
X Link 2026-01-05T18:53Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Sometimes we think about beauty as something that is absolutely out of the ordinary. But actually in Old Testament terms this kind of beauty is precisely being what youre meant to be well. So a lamb without blemish is just a really lamb-y lamb; not some kind of exceptional lamb different from all the other lambs but a lamb with all the right bits in all the right places. @BenQuash https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/how-does-scripture-talk-about-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/how-does-scripture-talk-about-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-06T14:18Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Join celebrated bestselling Armenian author Narine Abgaryan to launch her new book To Go On Living. She will be in conversation with Plough books editor @joynessthebrave. This event is held in collaboration with the Armenian Institute. @armenianinst https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/to-go-on-living-a-conversation-with-narine-abgaryan https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/to-go-on-living-a-conversation-with-narine-abgaryan https://www.plough.com/en/events/2026/to-go-on-living-a-conversation-with-narine-abgaryan"
X Link 2026-01-06T15:25Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Whoever does not want to act out of this good will this deeply surrendered will whoever does not want to act for the sake of God and the poor should leave it alone. Andreas Ehrenpreis https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/anabaptists/forsaking-mammon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/anabaptists/forsaking-mammon"
X Link 2026-01-08T20:12Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The first question has arrived Its a classic: Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people Two students write down the name and location of the person who asked it grab a sandwich wrapped in tinfoil and prepare to head out the door. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/grilled-cheese-text-please https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/grilled-cheese-text-please"
X Link 2026-01-09T16:01Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"When it was first displayed in Paris in [----] this painting really upset people. Like many paintings by Jean-Francois Millet this one angered wealthy art types who objected to the way it glorified poor peasants. @Zheschool https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/art/to-plow-his-furrow-in-peace https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/art/to-plow-his-furrow-in-peace"
X Link 2026-01-09T16:04Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"From their lofty perch the grotesques look down and see themselves in us. The ugliness we carry both that within us and that imposed upon us by a world of judgments. And they understand these things do not define us. Just as they do not define them. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/those-hideous-stewards-of-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/those-hideous-stewards-of-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-09T17:04Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"If we truly believed as Piers Plowman did that love should lead our decisions and define our common life might we imagine a politics and governance rooted not in power and money but in affection imagination and wisdom @LizWainwright https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/budgeting-with-piers-the-plowman https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/budgeting-with-piers-the-plowman"
X Link 2026-01-11T13:05Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements

"If you are looking for a quick means to separate the men from the boys put a rock bar in a fellows hands then step back and observe. Your average muscle-bound gym rat will last about [--] minutes with the rock bar; that wiry farm boy can use it all day. Brian Miller https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/give-me-a-place https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/give-me-a-place"
X Link 2026-01-12T13:16Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"We do not like to imagine ourselves as monsters or ugly twisted things but this is the nature of sin and none of us is spared from its influence. We are all subject to the warping distortions it imposes on our minds and souls. Sergio Bermudez https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/those-hideous-stewards-of-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/those-hideous-stewards-of-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-13T13:02Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"As she pulls you deeper into the spiraling circles of hell her prose is punctuated with sharp humor; one early circle finds inhabitants writing papers that can only ever seem to earn just below a passing grade. Elena Trueba https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally"
X Link 2026-01-13T17:33Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The only way to prevent heartbreak is to prevent the chance for joy. So reluctantly I chose pain and joy. Cautiously and with great pessimism I stepped out into the abyss. @CLE_Lauren https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/six-kids-and-six-pets https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/six-kids-and-six-pets"
X Link 2026-01-13T18:21Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"In Katabasis R. F. Kuang weaves together centuries of thought about the afterlife into a checkered tapestry that includes everyone from Dante to T. S. Eliot Orpheus to the apostle Paul. Elena Trueba https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally"
X Link 2026-01-13T20:16Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"For him humanity in the sense of being humane is the ultimate goal of earthly existence. But before you can see the human in others you must see it in yourself. Coretta Thomson https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/seeing-our-way-to-humanity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/seeing-our-way-to-humanity"
X Link 2026-01-15T20:56Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Shes beautiful says the girl even though shes green Shes beautiful even though she isnt real And we all lean out for a better look and Im surprised by everything I feel. @ae_stallings https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/on-the-staten-island-ferry https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/on-the-staten-island-ferry"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:24Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Everyone knows DaCino as Cino from the church. His mind gets all twisted trying to be an example living across the street but not being part of the hood. Who am I he wonders. He has homeboys who hang out and sell drugs but he never joins them. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/alabama-village https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/alabama-village"
X Link 2026-01-16T17:02Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"One can imagine and mourn the invisible library of works not written by mothers who chose to place their childrens needs first by giving up their writing. But what of the converse sacrifice @NadyaWilliams81 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/writing-at-burger-king https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/writing-at-burger-king"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:01Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements

"We must give up the grand distinctions of the schoolmen and all the lettered technicalities of men who have studied theology as a system but have not felt the power of it in their hearts Charles Haddon Spurgeon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/praying-for-revival https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/praying-for-revival"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:47Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Jesus words cant be dismissed as an exaggeration. So how exactly should we follow them By Martin Luther King Jr. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/love-your-enemies https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/love-your-enemies"
X Link 2026-01-17T20:05Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"How young is too young to face danger in a story Psychologists have long told us that fairy tales are important for child development. I tell myself that I believe this. @steph_ebert https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/should-i-read-scary-fairy-tales-to-my-child https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/should-i-read-scary-fairy-tales-to-my-child"
X Link 2026-01-18T20:54Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@DollyParton is not simply a good person or a beautiful poetess; she is both beautiful and good in a way the philosophy of character strives to explain but cant always illustrate convincingly. @chezaristote https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/dolly-parton-is-magnificent https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/dolly-parton-is-magnificent"
X Link 2026-01-19T14:56Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"My intention is to bring the viewer into the artwork jolting them out of the passivity of a spectator by confronting them with themselves rendered through vibrant distortions. Bokani https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/crafting-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/crafting-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-20T13:07Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Happy 94th Birthday to Rhina P. Espaillat Our poetry competition named in her honor is open for submissions: https://www.plough.com/en/contact-us/rhina-espaillat-poetry-award https://www.plough.com/en/contact-us/rhina-espaillat-poetry-award"
X Link 2026-01-20T14:00Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I think about encountering faith about encountering Christ as someone who comes unbidden into your life pulls you out of yourself allows you to be open to that experience happening through other people. @brvnathan https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/unexpected-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/unexpected-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-20T17:19Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"I begged for help from a God I wasnt even sure was real. In answer two alternatives became clear: continue calling my own shots and deal with the messy consequences as best I could or let go of everything and allow God to take control of my life. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/the-emptiness-of-success https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/the-emptiness-of-success"
X Link 2026-01-20T21:42Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"For a long time it was hard to see outwardly whether we were lost or found. No one around us seemed to understand what we were going through. But keeping faith that we were being lovingly guided was enough to see us through the wilderness day by day. @kacey_gardner https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/beckoned-by-beauty https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/beckoned-by-beauty"
X Link 2026-01-21T14:53Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"No matter the circumstances when someone dies we tend to haul out the same old clichs. Part of it is probably our fear of hurting someone by saying the wrong thing. But a good part of it is also our general discomfort with grief. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/grieving/our-discomfort-with-grief https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/grieving/our-discomfort-with-grief"
X Link 2026-01-22T14:08Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Skinheads and Klansmen we have long had with us. What has happened over the last decade is something else something more disturbing: it is an intellectual and indeed theological retrieval of racial supremacist and separatist ideas within Christian circles. @jamesrwoodtheo https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/the-politics-of-pagan-christianity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/the-politics-of-pagan-christianity"
X Link 2026-01-22T16:09Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"We are taught to think that we need a foreign enemy. Governments work hard to get us to be afraid and to hate so we will rally behind them. If we do not have an enemy they will invent one in order to mobilize us. Thich Nhat Hanh #DOTD https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/when-the-parades-end https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/when-the-parades-end"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:16Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The Baby We Kept Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another childs life. By Heonju Lee https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-baby-we-kept https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-baby-we-kept"
X Link 2026-01-23T03:31Z 15.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The peace of the Gospel is not the same as the peace of the world and that the gentleness of the Gospel has little to do with the free for all attitude of the world. The Gospel asks for a choice a radical choice. Henri J. M. Nouwen https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-true-school-of-love https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-true-school-of-love"
X Link 2026-01-23T13:23Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Exactly an hour before my wife was to take medication for abortion God told us to accept this child. I will tell my children of this miracle through all the years of my life. Heonju Lee https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-baby-we-kept https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-baby-we-kept"
X Link 2026-01-24T19:06Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Dont be so sensitive. Detach yourself. Suffering will just make you depressed. You cant make much difference anyway. By Albert Schweitzer https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/how-can-we-stay-compassionate https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/how-can-we-stay-compassionate"
X Link 2026-01-25T02:55Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"We live in an age of despair which would seem justified considering the compounding crises we face economic viral political environmental. Yet despair my father used to remind me is forbidden. Susannah Heschel https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/suffering-with-god https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/suffering-with-god"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:12Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The power lines are down. Were in the dark the victims of a wet cement-like snow. Im pleading with my generator Spark its stubborn answer up to now is No. Robert W. Crawford https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-the-hum-of-light https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-the-hum-of-light"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:09Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Human beings cannot live without a story. We need to believe that the events of our lives fit somewhere. We are desperate to know that the threads of joy and sorrow are being woven toward meaning. Jon Nichols https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-world-still-being-spoken https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-world-still-being-spoken"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:01Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"My own Leslie traveler to the undiscovered country has indeed gone far beyond me and what I know. But the love she brought into being remains needing to be shared somehow. Caitrin Keiper https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/children-of-terabithia https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/children-of-terabithia"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:16Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The use of gold leaf in my portraits is symbolic of this sacredness regardless of what someone has suffered. The technique is intentionally reminiscent of icon paintings. Hannah Rose Thomas https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/portraits-of-survival https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/portraits-of-survival"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:03Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Asimov meant to be humane to preserve order without superstition. Yet what he built was a world managed from above where mercy is inefficiency and freedom a statistical error. Jon Nichols https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-world-still-being-spoken https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-world-still-being-spoken"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:22Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The day I forgave the Nazis I also privately forgave my parents whom I had hated all my life for not having saved me from Auschwitz. And then I forgave myself for hating my parents. Eva Mozes Kor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/forgiving-dr-mengele https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/forgiving-dr-mengele"
X Link 2026-01-27T13:16Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Simone Weil the great mystic and philosopher for our age shows where anyone can find God. Plough subscribers can download Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us for free this week: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/love-in-the-void https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/love-in-the-void"
X Link 2026-01-27T16:23Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"We can live within the Machines walls as we are mostly now required to do but we dont have to accept its values. We can keep the human spirit alive below the radar. Maybe it is the best we can do. Paul Kingsnorth https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/six-ways-to-resist-the-machine https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/six-ways-to-resist-the-machine"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:06Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"In Katabasis R. F. Kuang weaves together centuries of thought about the afterlife into a checkered tapestry that includes everyone from Dante to T. S. Eliot Orpheus to the apostle Paul. Elena Trueba https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/beauty/academia-is-hell-literally"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:28Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The sympathy of the strong for the weak is against nature. By Simone Weil https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/how-to-love-your-neighbor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/how-to-love-your-neighbor"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:01Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"In denying oneself one becomes capable under God of establishing someone else by a creative affirmation. One gives oneself in ransom for the other. It is a redemptive act. Simone Weil https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/how-to-love-your-neighbor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/how-to-love-your-neighbor"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:05Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Long before a federal agent shot her and she became a headline and a symbol Renee was the best singer and listener in my church youth group. Jane Clark Scharl https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/my-childhood-friend-renee-good https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/my-childhood-friend-renee-good"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:05Z 16K followers, 22.7K engagements

"Who Christ is and what he has done shape the common good profoundly. The very meaning of human flourishing changes when by the grace of baptism we gain a created participation in the uncreated life of God. Sister Dominic Mary Heath https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/solidarity-means-giving-yourself https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/solidarity-means-giving-yourself"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:11Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Chronic or enduring illness does not place us outside the realm of health because health in the biblical imagination is not the same as cure. It is about wholeness in the midst of brokenness. John Swinton https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/health/in-pursuit-of-homefulness https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/health/in-pursuit-of-homefulness"
X Link 2026-01-30T18:17Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"No tech is inevitable everything we pick up with our hands is a choice. Take your hands off that stupid eschatology and let the muscles in your hand hold the pen learn to rest again to see. @chezaristote https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/your-friends-are-not-in-your-phone https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/your-friends-are-not-in-your-phone"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:13Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The ultimate thing is that we build community not on our love but on Gods love because we do not really have that much love ourselves and that is the real challenge of the religious life. Thomas Merton https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/communal-living/thomas-merton-building-community-on-gods-love https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/communal-living/thomas-merton-building-community-on-gods-love"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:03Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"If the church implements suggestions for how to use LMs that are as shallow and dehumanizing as the suggestions that have lately come out of secular society we will live to regret it. @ArlieColes https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/chatgpt-goes-to-church https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/chatgpt-goes-to-church"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:46Z 16K followers, [----] engagements

"Becoming rooted in a place is tricky business now more than ever in a world supercharged with racial awareness and on geography defined by centuries of colonization. Daniel J. D. Stulac https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/immigration/saskatchewan-promised-land https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/immigration/saskatchewan-promised-land"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:15Z 15.9K followers, [---] engagements

"The pervasiveness of markets and our evolution from having a market economy to being a market society are not inevitable developments of human culture. They require a particular imaginative framework and worldview. Simon Oliver https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/toward-a-gift-economy https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/toward-a-gift-economy"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:09Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"The Scholls writings glow with all the idealism naivet and self-importance of youth. . . . In the context of their authors martyrdom they constitute a compelling heart-wrenching testament to courage and goodness in the face of evil. Kirkus Reviews Free download available for subscribers: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/at-the-heart-of-the-white-rose https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/at-the-heart-of-the-white-rose"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:21Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"So few people explore what faith looks like if you take it out of the church building and take responsibility for it. And then they wonder why their children arent faithful. Thomas Pelham https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/signs-of-life-in-small-churches https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/signs-of-life-in-small-churches"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:55Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Computers and humans both have finite memories. But we humans somehow do something in spite of that limitation that takes the infinite into account when we do math. Computers do not. @DavidSchaengold https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/computers-cant-do-math https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/computers-cant-do-math"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:04Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"I have always felt that the world of books has some massive blind spots. Where is the book about or by a hairdresser Or bus driver Or nurse Or farm worker The answer is that historically they werent considered to be culturally important or of any interest. I think thats pompous nonsense. @herdyshepherd1 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/the-hidden-life-of-duck-women https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/the-hidden-life-of-duck-women"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:45Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"The Christian condition is the art of striving to answer a call to perfection while plumbing the depth of our imperfection without despairing and without giving up on the ideal. Erik Varden https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/in-defense-of-chastity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/in-defense-of-chastity"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:05Z 16K followers, [---] engagements

"Do you know a college student who might be interested in writing publishing regenerative farming and Christian community This June Plough is offering its 4th annual #internship combining book and magazine editing and hands-on agriculture. Find out more below and help us spread the word https://www.plough.com/en/about-us/plough-summer-internship https://www.plough.com/en/about-us/plough-summer-internship"
X Link 2026-01-15T19:09Z 16K followers, [----] engagements

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