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"Monastic life is not one lifestyle choice among others. It is a public statement about the truth of who God is and what human existence means. It says in living words that this world is not enough. 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 2022-01-22T17:43Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements
""William Cobbett called for his countrys ruling classes to give back the common land they had stolen from their own people." Jack Bell https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/saving-the-commons https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/saving-the-commons"
X Link 2023-06-03T09:24Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
""The King James Version had been so familiar to British churchgoers that Sayerss rendering verses into plain style sounded irreverent. Sayers calls out this obsessive dedication to the King James translation for what it is idolatry." @HootenWilson"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:27Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements
"The Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus (ca. ad 100) lived in Rome as a contemporary of Nero who banished him from the city because of his teaching. His lecture is a remarkable statement by a thinker who stands outside the Judeo-Christian tradition"
X Link 2023-06-30T03:05Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
""The American healthcare system is built on two premises: first that it is OK to make a profit in healthcare and second that only those who can afford care deserve it." @MyronGlick https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/who-deserves-medical-care https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/who-deserves-medical-care"
X Link 2023-07-11T01:41Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Woe to the strong man who fails to recognize his own strength to be all the more free and generous because of his consideration for the weakness of others. Such a one will be destroyed by his own unguarded power. Romano Guardini"
X Link 2023-07-11T14:06Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
""I grasp the hands of those next me and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson Article🩺Brewer Eberly"
X Link 2023-07-12T16:43Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Were told the only options in Ukraine are military escalation or appeasing a dictator. Where does that leave followers of the Prince of Peace🕊 Frank Mulder"
X Link 2023-07-12T10:33Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Blumhardt calls us to embrace the revolutionary notion that everyone belongs to God. He is a prophet for our time. @wilsonhartgrove Download this weeks free ebook:"
X Link 2023-07-12T18:50Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
""As the years passed and we grew closer my dads obsession with outrage media intensified." @fxxfy 📚@commentmag @PloughBooks"
X Link 2023-07-14T20:26Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
""Its very difficult not to fall into despair actually. Its very difficult not to end up being something of a nihilist. And I dont know if I was ever a nihilist but I was certainly in despair very often."🗣 Paul Kingsnorth https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/the-technology-of-demons https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/the-technology-of-demons"
X Link 2023-08-02T11:29Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Im not sure how much of that is a coincidence but its certainly a pause for thought especially when you remember that the very first Apple computer the Apple I went on sale in [----] at a retail price of $666.66."💾 Paul Kingsnorth"
X Link 2023-08-02T11:50Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Our Tragic Century Calls for More than Dedication "It is not enough to lead a life of dedication and surrender even as many religious orders do. Every Christian must do more with vows or without vows wherever they are whoever they may be" CDoherty"
X Link 2023-08-06T20:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked forgiveness and they asked forgiveness for Pearl Harbor and some of the horrible deeds of the Japanese military. We embraced. Tears flowed. That is the first step of reconciliation admission of guilt and forgiveness. George Zabelka"
X Link 2023-08-09T19:41Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
""Now life isnt something you try out for a while and then exchange for something else if it doesnt prove practical. You either have it or you dont. And if your Christianity is the kind that has to be worked you dont have the real thing." Cl Jordan"
X Link 2023-08-21T10:41Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Will Lab-Grown Meat Save Us For a sustainable future environmentalists like me should work with farmers who live close to the land to our food and to local stories. @LizWainwright"
X Link 2023-08-26T22:02Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How do we put into place the disciplines that are required to turn hearts of stone into hearts of flesh whether for individuals or communities The core word is attentiveness. Be attentive be alert be awake. Be ready. Listen. #Nouwen"
X Link 2023-08-29T09:17Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Decoding the Bibles Begats We moderns tend to think genealogy shouldnt matter. Scripture disagrees. @zugzwanged https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/decoding-the-bibles-begats https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/decoding-the-bibles-begats"
X Link 2023-08-29T20:26Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The virtues of the Beatitudes are all made visible in this: being the kind of people who would rather suffer for being the people of God than give up the way of the Sermon. @myleswerntz"
X Link 2023-09-05T19:01Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"The Saharawi Mine Action Team is an association of women engaged in demining activities along the Moroccan-built sand wall or berm that runs about [----] miles from Mauritania through Western Sahara to Morocco and along Moroccos border with Algeria"
X Link 2023-09-06T13:44Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"There had been divisions among Christians even in the apostolic era; so much so that the reader can easily get the impression that division was far more common than unity among the early Christian communities. #DBH"
X Link 2023-09-12T06:58Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"In and around the Vatican Hugh OFlaherty organized a daring network to hide Jews and escaping prisoners of war. By Maureen Swinger"
X Link 2023-09-23T08:33Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
""On Yom Kippur the Rabbis instituted this solemn declaration in order to proclaim in most unmistakable terms that no matter what is a mans mode of life slanderer apostate outcast he is still a brother." https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/seek-the-lost https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/seek-the-lost"
X Link 2023-09-24T22:50Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
""At times we have gone wistfully and hopefully to church feeling that we would catch a glimpse there of this elusive pearl of great price. Perhaps we havent really known what we were searching for." Clarence Jordan"
X Link 2023-09-28T11:26Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements
"We had a great launch event for The Liberating Arts last night Thank you @rooseveltmontas @HootenWilson @catjonathantran and @zenahitz. Get your copy of The Liberating Arts here:"
X Link 2023-09-29T15:05Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"In a searing account of Mississippi life delivered in August [----] and aired on national television Fannie Lou Hamer (#BOTD) asked Is this America where our lives are threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings in America"
X Link 2023-10-06T15:05Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"What role can small magazines play in the public square Can they provide a space for fruitful dialogue and healthy debate Join us in San Antonio on November [--] at 5:30 p.m. to discuss these questions with @drmoore & @joynessthebrave"
X Link 2023-10-09T19:58Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
""In their exile from Music Row the outlaws were able at last to write the songs that seemed real to them. Turns out they seemed real to others too." @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-13T08:41Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
""The so-called Great Replacement Theory is an example of the sort of conspiracy theory that can proliferate when longing for an idealized (and often imaginary) past is combined with anxiety about the future." @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-13T10:18Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
".Revivalism itself when disconnected from authentic revival can make the situation worse and not better after all the tents have been taken down all the sawdust swept up from the floor. @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-13T13:49Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
".@drmoore: Often when one hears an evangelical preacher thundering God send a revival or We need awakening in this land what he or she means is Lets win the culture war"
X Link 2023-10-13T15:52Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Revivals are paradoxically disruptive of the present while in continuity with the past. @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-13T17:50Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"What @WillieNelsonFam Can Teach Us about Revival Excerpted from Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America @drmoore published by Sentinel an imprint of @penguinrandom"
X Link 2023-10-13T19:15Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"For all the flaws of the evangelical emphasis on revival the beauty of it is that it first of all doesnt give up on the possibility of God acting. God can do a new thing @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-13T19:54Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"A true revival while corporate in the sense of bringing new life to a whole body of believers retains the sense of the personal. Lord send a revival the old song goes And let it begin with me. @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-14T13:55Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"In revival many Americans fear that what evangelical Christians really mean is taking America back and to some era of the past maybe the 1950s to which few women or minorities would want to return. This is not an unreasonable concern. @drmoore https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/what-willie-nelson-can-teach-us-about-revival https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/what-willie-nelson-can-teach-us-about-revival"
X Link 2023-10-15T18:57Z 15.3K followers, 12.9K engagements
"A remnant is usually the way that God brings about revival. He usually pares a people down clears away the field prunes the branches and then starts again. The pattern is order disorder reorder. Russell Moore @drmoore"
X Link 2023-10-16T15:57Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Indiana Jones 🎬 "Harrison Ford wiry handsome unarmed for once and Karen Allen girlish clad in a white silk dress hold hands in the gloom. They appear like a couple on their wedding day frightened humbled oddly innocent." @HannahGraceLong"
X Link 2023-10-24T21:34Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Like the echoey walls of the chapel on All Souls Day Prts compositions are also comfortable with silence. Prts emphasis on silence rst began in a compositional crisis a dry spell in which he composed nothing for eight years. @joynessthebrave"
X Link 2023-11-02T12:45Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
""Last fall Egor Redin was in hiding at a Baptist church in Tajikistan two thousand miles from home." @RCanonNaffziger"
X Link 2023-11-16T19:22Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"What Willie Nelson Can Teach Us A revival of anything often looks disturbingly different or doomed to irrelevance but really is a reconnection to roots so old they now seem new. @drmoore"
X Link 2023-11-18T21:30Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Poem: Contemplations 🍂 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed The trees all richly clad yet void of pride Were gilded oer by his rich golden head. Anne Bradstreet"
X Link 2023-11-22T09:13Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Born in England Anne Bradstreet (16121672) migrated to Salem Massachusetts in [----]. A devout Puritan and mother of eight children she was one of the first female poets to be published in the American colonies"
X Link 2023-11-22T09:15Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The theme of repair is a wide-ranging one and lends itself to myriad of practical illustrations. We employed many visual metaphors in our initial round of designs such as the repair of clocks watches and cars; the reclamation of old churches & art"
X Link 2023-12-04T18:46Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Teasing out the difference between madness and vision can be a difficult enterprise for poets. And for prophets. And for anyone who has experienced and lived to doubt the presence of God. Christian Wiman https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/ifs-eternally https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/ifs-eternally"
X Link 2023-12-08T03:09Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Who could guess that one of lifes most piercing discoveries would be a kind of edgeless entropy this feeling or is it a lack of feeling slowly creeping into all the crannies of your consciousness Excerpted from Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone"
X Link 2023-12-11T00:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The Legend of the Christmas Rose "Now that Robber Mother went from house to house and begged she came one day to vid which at that time was a cloister. She rang the bell of the cloister gate and asked for food."🌹 Selma Lagerlf"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:26Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The first woman writer to receive the @NobelPrize in Literature Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlf was born in stra Emterwik Sweden in 1858"
X Link 2023-12-13T18:26Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Why Serve The time is right for countries to reconsider mandatory national civic service. @AdrianPabst1"
X Link 2023-12-15T07:36Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"There is a pragmatic case for universal civic service. The more friends people can make with those from other cultural ethnic religious & social backgrounds especially when they are young the greater their social connectedness & their life"
X Link 2023-12-15T21:14Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The lights at the front of the church dim and the magi enter singing We Three Kings but in their North Louisiana accents the opening line comes out something like Way thray kangs as the church pianist tries to cover up their lack of harmony"
X Link 2023-12-18T21:49Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Why Serve The time is right for countries to reconsider mandatory national civic service. @AdrianPabst1"
X Link 2023-12-19T02:42Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"One of the wise men is a college football player home for the holidays recruited at the last minute to replace a missing actor. Wearing a purple turban he lumbers down the aisle dwarfing the rest of the cast. Robert Erle Barham"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:34Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"A mass of legend and literature which increases and will never end has repeated and rung the changes on that single paradox; that the hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. G. K. Chesterton"
X Link 2023-12-21T21:09Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"A star shone forth in heaven brighter than all the stars; its light was indescribable and its strangeness caused amazement. All the rest of the constellations together with the sun and moon formed a chorus around the star. Ignatius of Antioch"
X Link 2023-12-22T18:11Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"When I tuck her into bed she says good night to me & then to any angels who might be in the room starting with Uncle D. It never bothered her that she couldnt see him & she never expected to until last Christmas Eve when she did. Maureen Swinger"
X Link 2023-12-26T19:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Join artist author and human rights activist @hannarosethomas and the President and CEO of @ipinst Prince Zeid Raad Al Hussein on January 25th for a conversation to introduce Hannahs new book Tears of Gold"
X Link 2023-12-27T14:48Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The meditations in this collection witness to the fact that the birth of Jesus is more than history it is a reality but only for those who feel their need and are personally ready to come to the manger. Download free ebook: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-readings/when-the-time-was-fulfilled https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-readings/when-the-time-was-fulfilled"
X Link 2023-12-29T19:18Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Navid Kermanis heart-wrenching report on the drought and famine in south Madagascar is a window into human suffering that doesnt often make the news headlines:"
X Link 2023-12-31T08:48Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Join us for International Religious Freedom Summit at the Washington Hilton hotel January [----] [----]. Among the speakers will be @hannarosethomas author of Tears of Gold a new art book from @PloughBooks"
X Link 2024-01-04T13:41Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
".@hannarosethomass book on sale at this event features stunning portrait paintings of Yazidi women who escaped ISIS captivity Rohingya women who fled violence in Myanmar and Nigerian women who survived Boko Haram violence"
X Link 2024-01-04T13:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The church was the deepest home. The church was the home that you carry with you the home that cant be taken the body merged together again. @StephCSaldana"
X Link 2024-01-05T14:20Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
""As a parent who is also a physician I am accustomed to special requests from my childrens schools.Lately the schools have made a new request that feels unwelcomely like my clinical work: to wait out another school shooting." @AbrahamNussbaum"
X Link 2024-01-05T19:53Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"This weeks free ebook for Plough subscribers is The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers. In this anthology renowned murder mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers tackles faith doubt human nature and the most dramatic story ever told"
X Link 2024-01-08T15:17Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"In an age in which smartphone models go out of date within months and many clothes are worn once or twice before being binned the champions of repair face powerful obstacles. @PeterMommsen"
X Link 2024-01-08T16:11Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"What Problem Does ChatGPT Solve If we use AI to reduce or avoid the effort of exercising our human creativity and intelligence those gifts will atrophy. @jeff_bilbro"
X Link 2024-01-12T03:31Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"If todays church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church it will lose its authenticity forfeit the loyalty of millions and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club. Martin Luther King Jr"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:41Z 14.5K followers, 10.7K engagements
"The pronouncements that got Martin Luther King Jr. killed are probably not those that appear on inspirational posters today"
X Link 2024-01-15T17:27Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"On the lecture circuit I meet people every week who ask me incredulously why I am still a Christian. I try to explain that I was drawn long ago into the spirit and way of Jesus which Martin Luther King exemplified. Gary Dorrien"
X Link 2024-01-15T19:05Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Lord of the Rings shows that fantasy films made for grownups can be as pure as a mithril coat and still fascinate like a ring of power. @prof_tom_ward"
X Link 2024-01-16T14:36Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Being a star as Dolly points out is not so much about the existence of a large number of fans as it is a state of mind a feeling in ones own heart about ones self. Dolly Parton (#BOTD) is Magnificent:"
X Link 2024-01-20T18:29Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If youre like most Americans (increasingly most humans) chances are the first thing you saw this morning when you woke up was the screen of your smartphone and chances are thats also the last thing youll see before you go to bed. @WBLittlejohn"
X Link 2024-01-23T22:15Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Maniacal Visions "The machines will try to eat us all. At least thats what Frank Herbert saw. In his sci-fi novel Dune one of the foundational myths is that of the Butlerian jihad a war between man and the 'thinking machines'-" @maxb____"
X Link 2024-01-28T07:49Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann @PenguinBooks"
X Link 2024-01-28T07:49Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"In this story set in 1990s Armenia survivors of war find a reason to go on living. By Narine Abgaryan"
X Link 2024-01-31T06:42Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Tears of Gold gathers my portraits of Yazidi women who escaped ISIS slavery Rohingya women who fled violence in Myanmar and Nigerian women who survived Boko Haram captivity as well as Afghan Ukrainian Palestinian and Uyghur women. @HRose_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 2024-02-05T21:29Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The way of heaven is like the stretching of a bow: The high is brought low the low is raised up. Is this not precisely the perverse attitude towards status that Christians have claimed as exclusive to Christianity"
X Link 2024-02-20T16:10Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"For anyone still bewitched by World War II these tormented poetic letters and diaries make engrossing reading. Los Angeles Times Free ebook download for Plough subscribers:"
X Link 2024-02-21T19:08Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements
"A [----] Interview with Johnny Cash: I really feel very strongly about this: there are those of us who are called to the ministry musically. And even though Im not a very good musician I feel what Im singing"
X Link 2024-02-26T17:40Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements
"In Genesis God says Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth. Much ink has been spilled over how a Christian theology of dominion derived from this verse has led to widespread destruction of animal and plant life. Greta Gaffin"
X Link 2024-02-28T15:17Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@kebayf Also: Where Are the Churches in Canadas Euthanasia Experiment"
X Link 2024-03-13T11:02Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements
"A Hymn for Palm Sunday 🌴 Ride on ride on in majesty Hark all the tribes hosanna cry thy humble beast pursues his road with palms and scattered garments strowed. Henry Hart Milman"
X Link 2024-03-24T10:18Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Can small magazines like @Plough @EkstasisMag @commonwealmag & @commentmag provide a space for healthy debate Join the editors to discuss the role of small mags in the public square. Apr [--]. Grand Rapids MI. Festival of Faith & Writing https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines"
X Link 2024-03-27T15:17Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In prison youre defined by the worst thing youve ever done. This constant reminder can keep people from seeing the best in themselves. One reason what we do is so effective is because on day one we define you as a musician. Nathan Schram https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/criminal-justice/violas-in-sing-sing https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/criminal-justice/violas-in-sing-sing"
X Link 2024-04-04T13:05Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Can small magazines provide a space for fruitful dialogue and healthy debate Meet us to discuss in Grand Rapids MI on Apr [--] with editors from @commentmag @EkstasisMag @commonwealmag and @Plough https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines"
X Link 2024-04-04T19:32Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Fidelity in Little Things 🪷 Franois Fnelon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things"
X Link 2024-04-07T10:23Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RSVP to join us this Friday evening in Grand Rapids MI at the Festival of Faith and Writing. Discussion and reception w @ekstasis @commentmag and @commonwealmag https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines https://www.plough.com/en/events/2024/the-community-of-small-magazines"
X Link 2024-04-10T19:53Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"When the miracle of twins lay there in the sawdust and the ewe licked them off urging them to stand for their first meal I looked at Dad. His eyes shone as blue as chicory flowers and his face was wet with tears. @NorannV https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/lambing-season https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/lambing-season"
X Link 2024-04-13T13:09Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"In the windswept remoteness of the prairie huge sky overhead and interminable land all around you meet face to face the bison nodding and blinking slowly with its giant thoughtful eyes and there is no cloak of human civilization about you.@Zheschool https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-return-of-the-bison https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-return-of-the-bison"
X Link 2024-04-18T11:08Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"We will be measured by how we solve the question of balance in peace in prosperity in the supply of raw materials and the problems of climate change for our children and grandchildren. Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/ten-theses-on-intergenerational-stewardship https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/ten-theses-on-intergenerational-stewardship"
X Link 2024-04-23T02:33Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Tradition and Disruption Apocalypse not dogma is Christianitys grounds for hope.🌥 By David Bentley Hart https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/tradition-and-disruption https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/tradition-and-disruption"
X Link 2024-04-26T20:46Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The Making of Martyrs Recent assassinations of women leading environmental and land reform movements in Honduras have galvanized a people with a long history of martyrdom. By Robert Donnelly https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/the-making-of-martyrs https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/the-making-of-martyrs"
X Link 2024-05-07T20:06Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
""We would much rather make certain great sacrifices to God however violent and painful they might be upon condition that we should be rewarded by liberty to follow our own desires and habits in the details of life." 🌸 Franois Fnelon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things"
X Link 2024-05-10T01:41Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"The novelist Clarice Lispector (19201977) was famous for her crnicas very short narratives written for the Saturday edition of Rio de Janeiros Jornal do Brasil newspaper. These two have been newly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/two-cronicas https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/two-cronicas"
X Link 2024-05-12T11:21Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Here we are enjoying a simple game of basketball in a yard in our house in Los Angeles but quickly I find myself thinking about love and how the boys and men with whom I lived in prison displayed so little of it toward themselves. @ShakaSenghor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-love-of-absent-fathers https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/the-love-of-absent-fathers"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:42Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"What Problem Does ChatGPT Solve If we use AI to reduce or avoid the effort of exercising our human creativity and intelligence those gifts will atrophy. @jeff_bilbro https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/what-problem-does-chatgpt-solve https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/what-problem-does-chatgpt-solve"
X Link 2024-05-18T21:33Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Vows of Baptism In Christianity #baptism means a total transformation as these classic church readings from Armenia North Africa and England show https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/vows-of-baptism https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/vows-of-baptism"
X Link 2024-05-18T23:31Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
""While many no longer believe in God people not least Taylor Swift still seem to be drawn to believing in the power of vows oaths and promises almost as if there is still a God who listens to the vows we make." @kingholeung https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/the-one-who-promises https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/the-one-who-promises"
X Link 2024-05-18T23:32Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Taylor Swifts lyrics prompt questions that have plagued thinkers down the ages stretching from Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther to Giorgio Agamben: What difference does a promise really make @kingholeung https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/the-one-who-promises https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/the-one-who-promises"
X Link 2024-05-20T14:16Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"The kiss in the wind is one of the more iconic shots in The Quiet Man (1952) a film so stuffed with whimsical romance and broad Irish humor that it feels like the cinematic equivalent of a Saint Patricks Day parade. @HannahGraceLong https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/john-wayne-the-quiet-man https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/film/john-wayne-the-quiet-man"
X Link 2024-05-23T13:12Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
""This is where the cicadas come in. Their deafening chirps remind us that contemplative prayer is compatible with fervor and is the opposite of sloth." @millinerd https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/pray-like-a-cicada https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/pray-like-a-cicada"
X Link 2024-05-29T01:37Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"In Pursuit of Pure Northernness #Icelands vastness perilousness and barrenness haunt me. I wasnt searching for God on that poetic island but I found him. By Daniel Whyte IV https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/in-pursuit-of-pure-northernness https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/in-pursuit-of-pure-northernness"
X Link 2024-05-29T09:46Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Delightful breaking news: @_Zeets to write on the Monodon monoceros for @Plough. @mair__wright Thats true. Next one will be the Narwhal @mair__wright Thats true. Next one will be the Narwhal"
X Link 2024-05-30T11:21Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Watch the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award Ceremony: Congratulations to winner Jennifer Fair Stewartfor her poem Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane and to finalists Michael Manningfor A Lindisfarne Cross and Laura R. Eckmanfor Fingered Forgiveness. https://youtube.com/live/YTXG9MyxM7w https://youtube.com/live/YTXG9MyxM7w"
X Link 2024-06-03T19:08Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"The principal danger facing humanity I believe is the temptation of pride.--Jean-Pierre Dupuy"
X Link 2024-06-09T21:00Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"The discussion of the whole problem of technology--of the transformation of life and world through the introduction of the machine has been strangely led astray through an all-too-exclusive concentration upon the service or disservice the machines render to men.--Hannah Arendt"
X Link 2024-06-09T21:00Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Poem: Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane 🎉 Jennifer Fair Stewart This poem is the winner of Ploughs [----] Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane"
X Link 2024-06-09T21:36Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Our love for our families our biological and non-biological lineages is not at its best enclosed self-referential drawing from its own strength. Rather it opens outwards to draw others in in hospitality and charity. @pilates_pontius https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/what-is-our-scholarly-inheritance https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/what-is-our-scholarly-inheritance"
X Link 2024-06-11T18:01Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
"Guilty if Poor What do you call a justice system where innocent people plead guilty because their families need them @martensmatt1 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/criminal-justice/guilty-if-poor https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/criminal-justice/guilty-if-poor"
X Link 2024-06-13T06:37Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"I want my peers to have a fighting chance to live out familial faithfulness. But before we can live faithful lives we have to believe fidelity is possible; we also have to believe it is something worthwhile and praiseworthy. @AlexiSargeant https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/fathers-day/men-of-fidelity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/fathers-day/men-of-fidelity"
X Link 2024-06-16T20:09Z 15K followers, [---] engagements
""Meekness is most emphatically not weakness. Do you remember who was the meekest man in the Old Testament Moses" Elisabeth Elliot https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-meek https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-meek"
X Link 2024-06-19T23:21Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Today we had a party for Plough magazines 10th birthday 🥳 Subscribe here to join us for the next decade https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5/ https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5/"
X Link 2024-06-21T18:55Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"We were going to do a giveaway of the cake but someone ate it 😋🤫"
X Link 2024-06-21T19:02Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Poem: Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane This poem is the winner of Ploughs [----] Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award. Nobody in the lane and nothing nothing but poison ivy along its shoulders hunched into fields once stripped clear back when the https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane"
X Link 2024-06-22T08:24Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Poem: Blackberry Hush in Memory Lane by Jennifer Fair Stewart was the winner of Ploughs [----] Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/blackberry-hush-in-memory-lane"
X Link 2024-06-22T19:43Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"From the author of Irreversible Damage an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming not healing American children. @SentinelBooks https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-therapy-why-the-kids-aren-t-growing-up-abigail-shrier/20644918 https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-therapy-why-the-kids-aren-t-growing-up-abigail-shrier/20644918"
X Link 2024-06-25T11:10Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones social media and big tech--and a plan for a healthier freer childhood. @penguinpress https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-anxious-generation-how-the-great-rewiring-of-childhood-is-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-jonathan-haidt/20144236 https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-anxious-generation-how-the-great-rewiring-of-childhood-is-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-jonathan-haidt/20144236"
X Link 2024-06-25T11:10Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Send Us Your Surplus by @matthew_loftus: South Sudans kids thank you for that shipment of hip-joint ball bearings. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/send-us-your-surplus https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/send-us-your-surplus"
X Link 2024-06-25T12:00Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"in the great Dinosaur vs Protest Singer Battle of [----] looks like dinos are in the lead Any help for the protest singers & @dwaldenwrites @jennfrey @NotoriousTIB @pilates_pontius NEXT we've got @GurneyJourney on the political economy of Dinotopia vs @dwaldenwrites on music and politics. Dinosaurs vs. Protest Singers: Who would win https://t.co/CTroObOnc8 https://t.co/Rj58lnMf4c NEXT we've got @GurneyJourney on the political economy of Dinotopia vs @dwaldenwrites on music and politics. Dinosaurs vs. Protest Singers: Who would win https://t.co/CTroObOnc8 https://t.co/Rj58lnMf4c"
X Link 2024-06-25T14:43Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Fidelity in Little Things "The world judges us by appearances; God counts for nothing what is most dazzling to men." 🌸 Franois Fnelon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things"
X Link 2024-06-29T11:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Hummingbirds Are Wondrous Everyone who has admired the hummingbird has one particular bird in mind. My hummingbird came to me in Los Angeles four years ago. @_Zeets https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/hummingbirds-are-wondrous https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/hummingbirds-are-wondrous"
X Link 2024-06-29T12:59Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Having dug hundreds of postholes I can confirm with some authority that the rock bar lives up to its name. When you have dug through two feet of clay only to hit solid seemingly immutable rock the rock bar is the only tool to part the sea of stone. 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 2024-07-01T12:01Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Without my smartphone a conduit to sites designed explicitly to extract money from me either by encouraging me to buy things or by monetizing my attention my interior life remained my own: time to think read write or simply watch the world go by. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction"
X Link 2024-07-03T13:08Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"I have been for most of my adult life an addict. I am not addicted to drugs or to alcohol or to any other too-easily-glamorized substance. Rather I like many of us am addicted to small insubstantial hits of dopamine. @NotoriousTIB https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction"
X Link 2024-07-03T16:03Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Twice I have spent a month offline either without internet altogether or with just a flip phone. Both months were among the happiest and most creatively fulfilling of my life. I cooked more too. @NotoriousTIB https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction"
X Link 2024-07-04T20:12Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We so rarely realize how much we are carried by anonymous saints around us who quietly and determinedly make the world better. Paying more attention to them offers people exemplars for the possibility of social engagement in our time. @TerenceJSweeney https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/pillars-of-our-communities https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/pillars-of-our-communities"
X Link 2024-07-13T11:47Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Fidelity in Little Things Little things are unforeseen; they return every moment; they come in contact with our pride our indolence our haughtiness our readiness to take offence; they contradict our inclinations perpetually. 🪷 Franois Fnelon https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/fidelity-in-little-things"
X Link 2024-07-14T22:29Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Simple Steps to Combat Smartphone Addiction by Tara Isabella Burton: Finding technology and habits that make life better not worse. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction"
X Link 2024-07-19T17:06Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"How we can avoid narcissism unless we take a good honest look at ourselves How can we avoid the obsession with self that social media and success so easily produce @lorewilbert https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/who-gets-to-tell-the-story https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/who-gets-to-tell-the-story"
X Link 2024-07-23T19:21Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Monastic life is not one lifestyle choice among others. It is a public statement about the truth of who God is and what human existence means. It says in living words that this world is not enough. 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 2024-07-29T18:05Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Make Christianity Strange Again by Sheluyang Peng: Nijay K. Guptas new book Strange Religion depicts the early Christians as weird yet compelling. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/make-christianity-strange-again https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/make-christianity-strange-again"
X Link 2024-07-29T20:08Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A dramatic change in the voice can feel like alienation from ones entire body and when ones sense of identity is centered on singing or speaking the psychological toll can compound enormously. @dwaldenwrites https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/voice-exploitation https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/voice-exploitation"
X Link 2024-07-31T16:08Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"That the distinguishing trait of a musician was not the dexterity of his fingers but the constant thought of death which should instill us with optimism not horror. Meant to mobilize not paralyze. Eugene Vodolazkin https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/in-search-of-eternity https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/in-search-of-eternity"
X Link 2024-08-01T13:04Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Our receptiveness to music cannot really be switched off. Hence the ancient trope concerning the danger of music: its seductive power its ability to corrupt its sheer uncontrollable vitality. @pilates_pontius https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/music-and-morals https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/music-and-morals"
X Link 2024-08-01T19:31Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Ive never been able to wrangle a transcendent experience like a cowboy ropes an elusive bull. Every time Ive tried Ive ended up restless and in an emotional flux focused on myself instead of on the divine. @biles_peter https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/confessions-of-a-music-user https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/confessions-of-a-music-user"
X Link 2024-08-07T22:26Z 15.2K followers, [---] engagements
"As a Christian I refuse to do any kind of military service. I have had this conviction for about six years and this contributed to rather led me to join @TheBruderhof community. Fred Goodwin https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/conscientious-objection/christians-refuse-to-fight https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/conscientious-objection/christians-refuse-to-fight"
X Link 2024-08-08T20:14Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Care for the life of another even material bodily care is spiritual in essence. Bread for myself is a material question: bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. Nicolai Berdyaev https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/where-your-treasure-is https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/where-your-treasure-is"
X Link 2024-08-13T12:04Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love observing me grow slack From my first entrance in Drew nearer to me sweetly questioning If I lacked any thing. George Herbert https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/love-bade-me-welcome https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/love-bade-me-welcome"
X Link 2024-08-14T18:56Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Role models play an important part in helping to instill a sense of calling in a child. What I am referring to here is not todays celebrities but real heroes who display the qualities of true humanity. Johann Christoph Arnold https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/better-than-success https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/better-than-success"
X Link 2024-08-15T16:36Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Capitalism cant be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Christ condemned not just greed for riches but their very possession and Jesus first followers were voluntary communists. David Bentley Hart https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/what-lies-beyond-capitalism https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/what-lies-beyond-capitalism"
X Link 2024-08-19T12:04Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Enjoy the Moment 📸 "This desire to record is natural. But the ease with which we can now record comes with its own set of complications." @dmarkwiv https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/enjoy-the-moment https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/enjoy-the-moment"
X Link 2024-08-28T10:46Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A [----] survey of [----] Americans found that the typical smartphone user stores close to [----] photos in their camera roll. Americans collectively snap [-----] photos every second. @dmarkwiv https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/enjoy-the-moment https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/enjoy-the-moment"
X Link 2024-08-28T16:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@TheBruderhofs approach to education emphasizes connection with Gods creation; thorough learning of math science writing and communication; and an appreciation of history literature art music and crafts. @JHeinrichArnold https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/three-pillars-of-education https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/three-pillars-of-education"
X Link 2024-08-30T18:20Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Why are there so many people today who cannot find faith There are several reasons. Some are satisfied with what is happening; they are proud to be living in a time of great culture and civilization and they are blind to the suffering of humankind. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/faith-in-jesus https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/faith-in-jesus"
X Link 2024-08-30T20:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The annihilation of European peasantry over the course of the last few centuries and the acceleration of it globally in the past seventy years is only dimly conceived its significance underestimated. @gustophagus https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/sustainable-living/past-peasant-future https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/sustainable-living/past-peasant-future"
X Link 2024-09-02T14:09Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"How Do You Know a ChristianHeres a quick test from the early church. @CantusFirmusCC https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/how-do-you-know-a-christian https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/how-do-you-know-a-christian"
X Link 2024-09-04T07:33Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Make Christianity Strange Again 💥 "Terms like the great dechurching and the negative world are regularly bandied about as Christianity no longer holds the same central status it once did." Review by Sheluyang Peng https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/make-christianity-strange-again https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/make-christianity-strange-again"
X Link 2024-09-04T22:40Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"No matter if theyre winning or losing no matter if they have good draft picks or busts no matter who the coach is or how long it has been since a Super Bowl my husband and his family follow the Steelers and watch every single one of their games. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/family-corner/the-joy-of-watching-football https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/family-corner/the-joy-of-watching-football"
X Link 2024-09-11T20:15Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"To break my smartphone addiction it is becoming increasingly clear to me was a nigh-impossible goal not simply because smartphones are incredibly addictive but because to combat them required combatting the entire culture they represent.@NotoriousTIB https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simple-steps-to-combat-smartphone-addiction"
X Link 2024-09-16T12:03Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Recovering from Heroin and Fiction📚 I sought freedom in drugs and novels. They couldnt save me. By Jordan Castro https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction"
X Link 2024-09-16T19:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@HannahRThomas_ @malcolmguite @joynessthebrave @xsantiagoramos @JHeinrichArnold @JamesWood @SohrabAhmari 11/ Here's @malcolmguite with a new poem on Autumn: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/seasons/and-is-it-not-enough https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/seasons/and-is-it-not-enough"
X Link 2024-09-17T16:31Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@HannahRThomas_ @malcolmguite @joynessthebrave @xsantiagoramos @JHeinrichArnold @JamesWood @SohrabAhmari 12/ In his report on the aid industry in Cambodia @jdanielsims asks hard questions about how corrupt governments can co-opt foreign aid programs - and how those programs allow themselves to be co-opted. And he should know: he was part of this industry. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh"
X Link 2024-09-17T16:34Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A Lion in Phnom Penh An insider reckons with complicity and compromise in #Cambodias aid industry. @jdanielsims https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh"
X Link 2024-09-18T09:10Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"In Augustines story I found resonances of my own: the desire for rest and rootedness mixed with the sense of exile and strain toward a place of belonging. @joynessthebrave https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/are-you-a-tree https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/are-you-a-tree"
X Link 2024-09-19T15:07Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Copies of the Autumn issue Freedom arrived today from the printer Look for it to land in your mailbox soon 📬 Get your copy at 50% discount: https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5/ https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5/"
X Link 2024-09-20T01:37Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"If you do nothing you will still become a victim. Its just not your turn yet. These words from Cambodias most famous rights activist sum up the worldview of those whose lives and stories and blood are bound up in this place. @jdanielsims https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh"
X Link 2024-09-20T14:13Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"There are the human rights advocates who are meant to be protecting the poor from land grabs but instead play golf with corrupt officials on stolen land; environmental activists with big SUVs in their driveways. @jdanielsims https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/a-lion-in-phnom-penh"
X Link 2024-09-20T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Militant Peacemaking 🕊 Pacifism is unrealistic unless its conformed to Christ. By Stanley Hauerwas https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking"
X Link 2024-09-26T09:43Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Recovering from Heroin and Fiction 💉 "In novels as in youth the sense that you can do anything feels exciting. A lack of certain knowledge of the future the open possibility of myriad options contributes to the sense that one is free." Jordan Castro https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction"
X Link 2024-09-26T11:06Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Capitalism is an economic system that underwrites the necessity of possessions. Any attempt to achieve justice in such a system is doomed to fail to the extent that it leaves in place the presumption that what we have is ours. Stanley Hauerwas https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking"
X Link 2024-09-26T15:53Z 15.3K 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 2024-09-27T15:07Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Through baptism and the Eucharist the Spirit draws us into the distinctive way of life that makes possible reconciliation between enemies. Such reconciliation is possible because the church is a community of forgiven sinners. Stanley Hauerwas https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/militant-peacemaking"
X Link 2024-09-29T16:02Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"In novels as in youth the sense that you can do anything feels exciting. A lack of certain knowledge of the future the open possibility of myriad options contributes to the sense that one is free. Jordan Castro https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/recovering-from-heroin-and-fiction"
X Link 2024-09-30T18:14Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Exodus From China 💠 Sixty-three members of the Mayflower Church finally landed in Texas on Good Friday [----] three years after the group fled China and sought asylum. @Plough's Sam Hine interviews their pastor Pan Yongguang about their sojourn. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/religious-liberty/an-exodus-from-china https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/religious-liberty/an-exodus-from-china"
X Link 2024-10-02T09:48Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Oh to dream Im some ardent sentinel bearing the moon on my watch between a church and a fire when its You who lifts the torch clears the tares so that we might see the stones Sofia M. Starnes https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-zeal https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/poem-zeal"
X Link 2024-10-02T15:13Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Return to Vienna A Kindertransport Child Comes Home @NorannV https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/return-to-vienna https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/human-rights/return-to-vienna"
X Link 2024-10-05T06:32Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Despite its painful and harrowing subject material American Mother is a book of hope for America an America full of strangers seeking to console a family bearing unimaginable loss. Sharla Moody https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/an-american-mother-forgives https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/forgiveness/an-american-mother-forgives"
X Link 2024-10-08T16:05Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Living in a Tiny House is a rather public lifestyle choice. You can tell from the outside that a different value system is at work. @steph_ebert https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/sustainable-living/tiny-house-living https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/sustainable-living/tiny-house-living"
X Link 2024-10-09T12:55Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"This weeks free ebook for Plough subscribers is Breaking Ground: As a pandemic and racial reckoning exposed societys faults Christian thinkers were laying the groundwork for a better future. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/breaking-ground https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/breaking-ground"
X Link 2024-10-09T15:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"None of us is independent. For our very survival we always stand in need of the support instruction and aid of others that we might as Black Elk put it live together as one being. @Zheschool https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/reconciliation/we-are-all-related https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/reconciliation/we-are-all-related"
X Link 2024-10-09T18:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"And is it not enough that every year A richly laden autumn should unfold And shimmer into being leaf by leaf Its scattered ochres mirrored everywhere In hints and glints of hidden red and gold @malcolmguite https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/seasons/and-is-it-not-enough https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/seasons/and-is-it-not-enough"
X Link 2024-10-10T15:54Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Is there anything less America-in-2024 than a mental health professional telling a vulnerable struggling patient to seek more pain To scare herself on purpose and then avoid looking for relief @MariaBaerWrites https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/indecent-exposure https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/indecent-exposure"
X Link 2024-10-11T15:17Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Wonderland Trail "There is nothing like an abrupt alpine thunderstorm many miles from even the crudest shelter to remind one of ones all too fragile mortality." #MountRainier https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-wonderland-trail https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-wonderland-trail"
X Link 2024-10-12T05:15Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The Wonderland Trail The only thing that seemed to matter was the wind and the rock and every living thing. By Morf Morford https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-wonderland-trail https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-wonderland-trail"
X Link 2024-10-12T19:50Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Poem: Contemplations 🔸Anne Bradstreet Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed The trees all richly clad yet void of pride Were gilded oer by his rich golden head. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/thanksgiving/contemplations https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/thanksgiving/contemplations"
X Link 2024-10-14T05:08Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Solitude can be accomplished without silence provided we feel somewhat alone. Its clearest expression however is in times of actual silence when it feels as if the world stops. This is because we must stop. Jack Nicholson https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude"
X Link 2024-10-14T12:47Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Lockdowns therefore were not a complete loss; on one level they gave us an opportunity to fight back by learning to become comfortable with solitude. But many of us panicked. Jack Nicholson https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude"
X Link 2024-10-14T15:57Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"We still experience the lonely crowd. We still lament the lost art of silence. We still panic. The world is beset with problems. But it is not too late. Jack Nicholson https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude"
X Link 2024-10-14T18:58Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Goldenrods bloom with geometrical extravagance. From a distance they look like scraggly brushes dipped in bright yellow paint or like golden snow draping the branches of tiny conifers. @wtokie https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-generous-goldenrod https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/the-generous-goldenrod"
X Link 2024-10-16T14:15Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"If the body is a sukkah then each act of repair to the one in my yard each branch placed each beam squared away becomes year after year its own act of faith the living practice of faith. J. L. Wall https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/dwelling-in-fragility https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/dwelling-in-fragility"
X Link 2024-10-16T16:15Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A darkness stalked him but he lit bright fires of love and work and wit and faced the wind and found his way for decades past that autumn day. After Helping My Father Rake the Leaves by Jean L. Kreiling: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/after-helping-my-father-rake-the-leaves https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/after-helping-my-father-rake-the-leaves"
X Link 2024-10-18T12:07Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"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 John Woolman https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/conscientious-objection/scruples-of-conscience https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/conscientious-objection/scruples-of-conscience"
X Link 2024-10-18T22:41Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If only they would be more like everyone else with our jobs and educations our property taxes and wealth and punctuality. If only they could worship mammon just a little bit. Wouldnt that be good for them D. R. Groten https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/at-least-he-got-a-job-before-he-died https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/at-least-he-got-a-job-before-he-died"
X Link 2024-10-19T18:17Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The conservative corners of the Catholic Church in America are decidedly silent when it comes to widespread job and health precarity systematically low wages eye-watering inequality the hollowing out of the real economy by Wall Street. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/the-workers-and-the-church https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/the-workers-and-the-church"
X Link 2024-10-21T12:07Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"When Roads Are Washed Away 🔸 After Hurricane Helene the people of rural North Carolina are finding that a road is so much more than gravel and asphalt. By Amanda Held Opelt https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/when-roads-are-washed-away https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/when-roads-are-washed-away"
X Link 2024-10-26T10:26Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Renegade Monk Over five hundred years ago Martin Luther battled for freedom of faith. By Andrea Grosso Ciponte and Dacia Palmerino https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/the-renegade-monk https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/the-renegade-monk"
X Link 2024-10-31T05:50Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
""#Wordsworth's Lucys inertia suggests a sort of Romantic peace; #Shakespeare's Yoricks grin Gothic disquiet. But I am reconciled to both now." @DoriMoody13 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/the-bones-of-memory https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/service/the-bones-of-memory"
X Link 2024-11-01T21:51Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
""Without denying the value of love of homeland our first allegiance is always to God the lord of history & his coming kingdom: as the Letter to the Hebrews says here on earth we have no continuing city but we seek one to come." -Johann Huleatt https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/intentional-community/the-bruderhof-and-the-state https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/intentional-community/the-bruderhof-and-the-state"
X Link 2024-11-02T13:32Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Fill the earth and subdue it. This is Gods command to Adam and Eve (Gen. 1:28). I wonder if it was said with a wry grin. Subdue the world; go on give it a shot. Adam Whipple https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/listening-to-broomsedge https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/environment/listening-to-broomsedge"
X Link 2024-11-07T15:47Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Three decades after the release of Mrs. Doubtfire I cant help but feel conflicted by todays moral landscape which condemns a vice with adverse health effects yet defends the rupturing of a childs inner world as morally acceptable. @stephengadubato https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/marriage/the-myth-of-a-good-divorce https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/marriage/the-myth-of-a-good-divorce"
X Link 2024-11-08T18:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"We still experience the lonely crowd. We still lament the lost art of silence. We still panic. The world is beset with problems. But it is not too late. Jack Nicholson https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/searching-for-solitude"
X Link 2024-11-09T13:03Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
""In the United Kingdom the highest levels of what the government euphemistically calls economic inactivity people who are neither in work nor actively seeking it are to be found in the coastal towns that ring the British Isles." @s_j_cross https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/left-behind-in-grimsby https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/left-behind-in-grimsby"
X Link 2024-11-13T19:45Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"The Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award will be awarded for an original poem of not more than fifty lines that reflects her lyricism empathy and ability to find grace in everyday events of life without having to be explicitly religious. #poetrytwitter https://www.plough.com/en/contact-us/rhina-espaillat-poetry-award https://www.plough.com/en/contact-us/rhina-espaillat-poetry-award"
X Link 2024-11-17T08:47Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"When I got married he walked me down the aisle. He didnt get to do that for my mom. He didnt get to because he didnt go because my dad is black. @HeatherTDay https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/reconciliation/my-grandpa-didnt-go-to-my-moms-wedding https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/reconciliation/my-grandpa-didnt-go-to-my-moms-wedding"
X Link 2024-11-17T12:51Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Learning the Violin "There's more mathematicsinvolved in playing the violin than I would have imagined. Its physics really." @MariaBaerWrites https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/learning-the-violin https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/parenting/learning-the-violin"
X Link 2024-11-18T10:36Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"We Are What We Pray A hermit in the Sahara Desert tells us what hes learned about prayer and contemplation. By Carlo Carretto https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/we-are-what-we-pray https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/prayer/we-are-what-we-pray"
X Link 2024-11-19T01:43Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Lord of the Rings shows that fantasy films made for grownups can be as pure as a mithril coat and still fascinate like a ring of power. @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 2024-11-21T19:15Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Like Hansel and Gretel leaving their little white pebbles along their path into the dark forest the next generation needs us to provide them with touchstones that can keep them from getting lost on their journey and help them find their way back home. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-case-for-not-sanitizing-fairy-tales https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-case-for-not-sanitizing-fairy-tales"
X Link 2024-11-23T20:55Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
""I saw no trace of Christs birth in Singapore because all our holidays have become Black Friday." Anthony R. Lusvardi SJ https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/what-religion-is-black-friday https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/what-religion-is-black-friday"
X Link 2024-11-28T00:19Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"🔥Plough Black Friday Sale Starts. Now🔥 Subscribe to Plough at 50% off and get a Plough T-shirt with your order While supplies last *Offer expires December [--] *New subscribers only *Limited to US and Canada https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5 https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5 https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5 https://subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPSNA5"
X Link 2024-11-28T03:05Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
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