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To celebrate Plough’s new look (unveiling next week) we're giving away 1 hoodie! Like or RT before Tuesday Aug 30 for a chance to win a black pullover hoodie with our new logo.
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Calling all poets! The first annual Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award is now open for submissions.
🏆Winner: $2,000 prize, and publication in Plough
🥈Two runners-up: $250 each, and publication in Plough
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Composer Alan Hovhaness’s haunting “Prayer of St. Gregory” gives voice to enduring
#faith
:
http://t.co/Om2R5Idoit
http://t.co/ofbLC4daD1
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"It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you."
@jeff_bilbro
on the Anglo-Welsh poet-priest R.S. Thomas
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Where Are the Churches in Canada’s Euthanasia Experiment? by
@benjamindcrosby
:
Since MAID was legalized, euthanasia is Canada’s sixth leading cause of death. Why are so many Christians silent?
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"The greatest witness of God’s love in all of history was not Jesus’ perfect life. It was not his teaching. It was not his miracles. The greatest witness of God’s love was Christ’s suffering on the cross."
@RickWarren
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Your annual reminder that, unlike Orpheus, Christ did not fail to rescue his bride.
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The Children of War gives names and faces to the children on the front lines.
#MustRead
:
http://t.co/nWzaUaO8PH
http://t.co/ePWzBwIZKL
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I love when nature recreates the urban.
I love this garden on a fire escape:
water in what had been a fifth of bourbon
steeps lilies; and a cooler, left agape,
holds, over dirt and worms, a swatch of lawn,
a pinwheel and a decorative rock.
@Poochigian
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.
@AndrewPeterson
’s *
#WingfeatherSaga
* is no Lord of the Rings, but children’s literature hasn’t achieved such theological depth since the Chronicles of Narnia.
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From
@ClerkofOxford
: The Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chaos. One bishop held a kingdom together...
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We are pleased to announce that
@JcScharl
will be Plough’s next Poetry Editor! She will commission one poet for each issue of the magazine and will judge our annual Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award.
Submit your poem here:
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A prayer for my beautiful country - "I tremble for the nation that I love." Read:
http://t.co/qEK3HnLggd
#July4th
http://t.co/oibTAzJgCz
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A lover of place pushes against the unraveling of America.
@gracyolmstead
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"If in a hundred years, Christians are identified as the people who don’t kill their children or kill their elders we will have done well.” —Stanley Hauerwas
Article
@benjamindcrosby
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Where Do We Go From Here? - What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, yo...
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“Our sense of being and identity is formed by our perception and understanding of where we are, by the way we name the world and ourselves.”
@gracyolmstead
on how Wendell Berry defends his choice to remain in one place for a lifetime.
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"What Gandhi Taught Me about Jesus" - and what happened after:
http://t.co/RyeSfnYVRk
#Jesus
#Gandhi
http://t.co/lhW17YFTZo
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A book for future Special Olympic heroes!
http://t.co/LJvD8dUWvc
#ReachUp
#SpecialOlympics
#LA2015
http://t.co/koBOlVI3sU
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“Tim Keller helped me to understand that even in shark-infested waters, we are to create beauty in the midst of a despair-filled city. The idea of ‘culture care’ is to seek to love culture as an exile in the ‘Babylon’ we are called to serve.”
@iamfujimura
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“I often tell churches that too many of us are alarmed by passages in the scripture that are meant to be comforting, and are comforted by passages that are meant to be alarming.” An interview with Russell Moore.
@drmoore
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"The greatest witness of God’s love in all of history was not Jesus’ perfect life. It was not his teaching. It was not his miracles. The greatest witness of God’s love was Christ’s suffering on the cross."
@RickWarren
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Janusz Korczak - This Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2016, read about the Polish educator and author who did...
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“There’s not always justice in Flannery O’Connor’s stories, or transformation, or redemption. But they hover around the edges of the text, shimmering behind it, glimpsed out of the corner of the eye.”
@suzania
🦚
#flanneryoconnor
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"There are many people who want to take responsibility for their own lives, but they are increasingly frustrated by the feeling that everything is out of their control, and they cannot even say who is in control." Dale Ahlquist
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"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act." Kierkegaard
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Read the story of Sarah Williams, who carried her terminally disabled daughter to term:
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"And, yes, hindsight is always twenty-twenty. So, let’s start with some context. We’ve known that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would heat the planet since the 1850s."
@KHayhoe
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Endless battles are too predictable and boring. How much fresher and more difficult to envision is a world that has figured out how to live peacefully!
Read “Dinotopian Visions: An Interview with
@GurneyJourney
”
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A baby with profound
#disabilities
teaches his foster family about love and surrender. Read:
http://t.co/tBPizBL34F
http://t.co/FSkEE5Y89M
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“On All Souls’ Day, we remember the people we have loved and lost in this life. I find it comforting to have a day to admit in silence that there is a hole in some part of my world.”
@joynessthebrave
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Dorothy Day, Oscar Romero, Simone Weil - who will be next in the Plough Spiritual Guides series? Backpack classics for modern pilgrims:
#DorothyDay
#OscarRomero
#SimoneWeil
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“The devil has now led this nation too much astray for many years, and there has been little loyalty among men, though they spoke well, and too many injustices have reigned in the land,”
Wulfstan, AD 1014 🗡️
@ClerkofOxford
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No matter how this week has played out for each of us, here’s something to remind us that the real Christmas is eternal:
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"Wulfstan's account still has the power to shock a thousand years later: particularly horrible are his descriptions of desperate people selling their own family members into slavery and his fierce denunciation of the sexual abuse,"
@ClerkofOxford
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Floodtide of the Spirit - How can a spiritually dehydrated people experience
#Whitsun
again?
http://t.co/CecqhxZ6v9
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On Fox News front page today: Melissa Ohden's life story - abortion survivor who found her birth mother |
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Revolution and Renewal: If the church is to be the quiet revolution, it must face the poor in our society....
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Congratulations Joy!
Oops, *Dr* Joy!
I passed my PhD viva. You may now call me Dr Joy. 🥳
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What happened to the Catholic Priest who blessed the bombs? Read:
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#Hiroshima
http://t.co/Zxln0y2S5R
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"We have got to pray, to read the Gospel, to get to frequent communion, and not judge, not do anything, but love, love, love. A bitter lesson."
#DorothyDay
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God’s Purpose in Your Pain
What good could suffering possibly serve? A pastor reflects on what he has learned from losing a son to suicide.
@RickWarren
🔸
#SuicideAwareness
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"I was raised in a culture that told me unlimited freedom of choice is central to what it means to be human. But this is not how life happens." On
@USATODAY
Sarah Williams tells her daughter's story:
#WhyWeMarch
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"I’m here helping people, and it’s saving my own life."
@TeamRubicon
in action:
http://t.co/obfkDMjhHl
#veterans
http://t.co/awjgGFKCXu
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In a Twitter exchange on “doomism” with
@MichaelEMann
and
@KHayhoe
, now chief scientist to The Nature Conservancy, I spoke of feeling “racked between the deniers and the alarmists.”
@KHayhoe
answered, “It’s a lonely place, so great to have company!”
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"Once upon a time, Christianity grew and endured and even flourished over the course of many generations in total and blissful ignorance of any officially defined dogma," David Bentley Hart
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“Beloved ones, know what is true: this world is in haste, and it is nearing the end.”
—Wulfstan, archbishop of York, AD 1014
@ClerkofOxford
on the timely, timeless sermon
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How can Wendell Berry’s novels help us understand love of country and community without stumbling into idolatry?
@drmoore
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#AnimalsLover
"Love the animals – God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble them – don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent."
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“We are losing too many of a generation – not because they are secularists, but because they believe we are. What this demands is not rebranding, but repentance – a turnaround.” —
@drmoore
Watch Russell Moore’s talk at the Plough Writers’ Weekend:
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“Many people confuse being on the right side of history with having a life worth living.” —Stanley Hauerwas
Watch theologian Hauerwas’s talk at the Plough Writers' Weekend:
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We’re excited to announce that our Spring issue, *The Riddle of Nature,* has gone to press and will go online next week! This issue considers if humans should live by the laws of nature, if regenerative agriculture can pay the bills, and whether dandelions are friend or foe.
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Plough readers: have you received your copy of “Creatures: The Nature Issue”?
When you do, tweet a picture of your pet with the “Creatures” issue. Prizes for the most outlandish
#PloughCreature
!
We'll go first, with Ollie the cow from
@TheBruderhof
at Fox Hill:
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Plump pigeons, always roosting on the railing,
come for her breadcrumbs. They are tame for her,
the Circe of Gramercy Park, the girl
for whom nibs open and all tendrils curl.
@Poochigian
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Plough Writers Weekend Recap
Thank you to keynote speakers
@jennfrey
,
@herdyshepherd1
,
@jenniferabanks
,
@AriSchulman
and many others, for conversations we will think on for a long time to come!
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"*Middlemarch* offered me a keener understanding of my own heart, and so affected me in much the same way as Scripture; reading me as I read it."
@thoroughlyalive
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The Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chaos. One bishop held a kingdom together.
by
@ClerkofOxford
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“If people reject the church because they reject Jesus and the gospel, we should be saddened but not surprised. But what happens when people reject the church because they think we reject Jesus and the gospel?”
@drmoore
on the future of the church:
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“If in a hundred years, Christians are identified as the people who don’t kill their children or kill their elders we will have done well.” —Stanley Hauerwas
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Poem: “And Is It Not Enough?”
@malcolmguite
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
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“In my neighborhood in Kensington, Philadelphia, to be pro-life means that I’ve got to figure out how to support a fifteen-year-old girl when she gets pregnant. These aren’t issues, they’re human beings.” An interview with
@ShaneClaiborne
.
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"Our dinghy sank beneath us..." And their journey isn't over. Don't let the world forget:
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“Imagine that every time you added a word to your vocabulary – selfie, say, or subtweet – you had to remove an older word to make room for it.”
@SallyThomasNC
reviews THE LOST WORDS by
@RobGMacfarlane
and
@JackieMorrisArt
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March 24 is
#GlobalTBDay
- announcing a powerful new biography by
@RachelPiehJones
covering Annalena Tonelli’s difficult but incredibly successful drive to eliminate
#tuberculosis
in Somaliland and Kenya in the decades before her assassination:
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We must love to the point of folly, as did our Lord himself, who died for us.
By Dorothy Day
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The Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chaos. One bishop held a kingdom together.
@ClerkofOxford
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“We want peace, but not the peace of violence and of cemeteries, not peace imposed or extorted. We want peace that is the fruit of justice.”
#OscarRomero
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"I drew The Ladies, as I call them, over the course of a couple of afternoons."
Sister Grace Remington speaks with
@joynessthebrave
about her art.
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The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world contains evil, violence, and danger.
@HaleyCarrots
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Eternal rest grant unto her, oh Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her.
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s monarch for the past 70 years, has died aged 96
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Jesus never asks for admirers, worshippers, or adherents. No, he calls disciples.
By Søren Kierkegaard
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Funeral service for
#StevenMcDonald
on Friday in NYC. Remember this hero, and share his story:
#courage
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To ring in the New Year, here are Plough’s ten most popular articles of 2017: Dorothy Day and Wendell Berry, activist mystics and a teacher who never spoke, the Reformation, Christianity in China, T. S. Eliot, and more!
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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:
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Join
@KSPrior
,
@ginadalfonzo
&
@byronborger
of Hearts & Minds Bookstore on Sept. 22 for the launch of "The Gospel in Dickens"!
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The Speaking Tree
In an Anglo-Saxon poem, a tree becomes the meeting place of horror and joy.
@ClerkofOxford
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At
#MarchforLife
? Get your signed copy! Thursday, Conference: 12-1 & 4-5, Friday, Expo Hall: 4-6:
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"He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as he sensed the end coming so that whoever discovered him would know he had a good taste in literature."
@AndrewPeterson
Grab this!
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“Poetry’s proper place is not, first and foremost, in academia, but in our homes. ... When we invite poetry into our homes, we make our family life more abundant, but we also help poetry itself grow richer and more beautiful.”
@JcScharl
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"As things get more and more intense politically, there is a greater and greater need for stepping back and immersing yourself in something that is more likely to give you tranquility rather than an ulcer." Alan Jacobs
with
@joynessthebrave
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A Day in the Life of a Cowboy Priest
🐄
Father Bryce Lungren cares for cattle, but he also cares for the souls of his Wyoming parish.
@Zheschool
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Living with Religious Scrupulosity or Moral OCD
"To get better, you have to believe that it’s appropriate to treat your fears as irrational, as medical problems and not existential threats. Which is a leap of faith."
@TheAlanNoble
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Plough Quarterly
#28
is in the mail today!
“Creatures: The Nature Issue” is on it's way to subscribers. Pieces by
@LeahLibresco
,
@PhilKlay
,
@ianmcorbin1
,
@gracyolmstead
,
@joynessthebrave
,
@brandonmcg
, and many others.
Never a better time to subscribe:
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"Dad’s obsession with outrage media gradually alienated him from nearly everyone as he crawled into a cave of conspiratorial logic and monomania."
@fxxfy
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“Liberalism goes against the grain of our humanity and the universe itself because it is based on the presumption that life has no telos other than the arbitrary desires we impose on the world to make us feel at home.”
The Good Life by Stanley Hauerwas:
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"I didn’t grow up with the same sense of relationship with Mary most of my sisters did, so I started by thinking about who Mary was to me." Sr. Grace Remington tells
@joynessthebrave
about her artwork:
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*The Dream of the Rood* tells the story of the Crucifixion as seen through the eyes of the Cross, which speaks in its own words, describing how it was forced to participate in Christ’s death.
@ClerkofOxford
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