Dori Moody

Mortal Flesh Dissecting a cadaver taught me reverence for life and eternity.

Dissecting a cadaver taught me reverence for life and eternity.
By Sofia Carozza
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In the Footsteps of Saint Francis A vibrant Franciscan community in the Ardennes attracts young people thirsty for faith.

Beautiful piece in @plough.bsky.social today on a Franciscan monastic community in Belgium

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"I could have been a lawyer, married, rich, and independent. Now I am celibate, poor, and obedient instead. But I am happy."

#Francis800

I'm thrilled that my short fiction (yes, I do sometimes write short fiction) is featured in this next @plough.bsky.social - watch this space! ✍️

The Birds and the Bees, Babies and Me - Christianity Today God calls us to a fruitful life, no matter our fertility.

"There was a sense of something mysterious about [a childless couple] and their home—something about the abundance of a life that doesn’t look like everyone else’s—that lingers with me still."

Thankful for @karenswallowprior.bsky.social's life and witness.

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Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way vs. Friedrich Nietzsche’s Big Guns Two nineteenth-century contemporaries had very different views on how to live.

"It often occurred to me that poor tortured Nietzsche with his violent cry of “No, no!” was in the eyes of God closer to her “Yes, yes!” than we are."

Karl Stern on Thérèse of Lisieux & Nietzsche
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How to Break Your Screen Addiction Step two: Be incorporated into the convent community by temporary profession, during which time you will be given access to a smartphone which is shared…

"After all, renunciation is never an end in itself; it is always a path to re-ordering and renewal."

Heartfelt (and humorous) advice here. I love Sr. Carino Hodder's articles.
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Light Your Lamp and Read Exhortations from Saint Columban (543–615), an ancient Irish saint.

An ancient Irish saint exhorts us to sell our vices and buy life.
By Saint Columban
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Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just Being Nice Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) argued that true Christian fellowship as practiced by the early church demands sharing of material possessions, distribution of those goods, and r...

Nowhere in the New Testament does “fellowship” imply pleasant social contacts.
By Clarence Jordan
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Jane Eyre Holds Her Own Karen Swallow Prior examines themes of freedom, individualism, and conviction in Jane Eyre.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will."

@karenswallowprior.bsky.social on what *Jane Eyre* has to teach us about free will.

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Deliver Us from the Evil One The devil was more than a metaphor for early Christians.

"As modern readers observing from another time and culture, how might we best engage with talk of the devil and his army of demons in early Christian writings?"
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The First Task of the Church In this excerpt from Jesus Changes Everything, Stanley Hauerwas considers the task of the church in society.

The most creative political solutions Christians have to offer our troubled society are not new laws, advice to policymakers, or social programs.
By Stanley Hauerwas
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The Flaming Heart of Danko In this Russian legend, a young man sacrifices his life to save his people.

As a child, this story fascinated me in a terrifying yet hopeful way. The violent ending of Danko troubled me, and I found it hard to put together the liberating joy of the lost people with Danko' s gruesome death. #Gorky
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Not All Right Tish Harrison Warren on the prayer for those who are too tired to pray.

An Ash Wednesday devotion from this book by Tish Harrison Warren
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An Ash Wednesday devotion from Tish Harrison Warren
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Why All Christians Should Give Lent a Chance Benjamin Crosby writes that feasting and fasting help us habituate our affections, help us to feel the truths of the gospel.

“The fundamental basis for feasting and fasting as Christian practices, Hooker writes, is that they teach us to rightly express the two central affections of Christian life, joy and grief.” —Benjamin Crosby

"The dark wood of late modernity is disenchanted, and to escape its nihilism, we need to re-enchant the world. Or so any number of recent books say."
Joy Marie Clarkson

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Why God Doesn’t Need Psychedelics True communion with God doesn’t come with the popping of a pill.

True communion with God doesn’t come with the popping of a pill.
By Joseph Murphy
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Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession.

See how @rianjohnson.bsky.social's latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession.
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Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession.

My analysis of the integral and overlooked relationship between religion and detective fiction, focusing on Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man, is now live on @plough.bsky.social's website!
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New Lent Devotional from Plough Publishing #lentendevotional #lentreadings #easterreadings #lent YouTube video by Plough

Plough’s Books & Culture editor, Joy Marie Clarkson shares why you should pick up the new edition of our Lenten devotional 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘦. This expanded edition adds dozens of voices, new and old, taking your daily readings all the way through Eastertide to Pentecost.

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The Oddest Prophet – Søren Kierkegaard One of the oddest prophets ever was Søren Kierkegaard - a melancholic Dane, who from the middle of the last century peered quizzically into this one, dryly noting such tragicomic phenomena of our ti...

One of the oddest prophets was Søren Kierkegaard – a melancholic Dane who from the middle of the last century peered quizzically into this one, noting, before they happened, such tragicomic phenomena of our time as universal suffrage & affluence abounding. www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...

Our Tragic Century Calls for More than Dedication Catherine Doherty, a friend of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, founded Friendship House and Madonna House and promoted the ancient Russian practice of withdrawing to a poustinia.

As clouds of war loom, “doing something more” might include the ancient Russian practice of withdrawing to a poustinia.

By Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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The Good Life Stanley Hauerwas writes that people no longer have good wholesome lives because culture and the church do not offer one in a liberal society. Only when people relearn what it means to do good work, wi...

If liberalism failed to deliver it, what can?
By Stanley Hauerwas
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Deliver Us from the Evil One The devil was more than a metaphor for early Christians.

"Lest we be tempted to leave the devil behind in the fourth century, there are many contexts today in which we come across the devil."
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Consider the Birds Birdwatching, George Orwell suggests, makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable. Calvin and Hobbes would agree.

“The colors and sounds of #birds invite undivided attention, and learning the names of common species builds a #connection with the space around us.”: buff.ly/F8xBhKL

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My Childhood Friend, Renee Good 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.

This is lovely.
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My Childhood Friend, Renee Good 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.

"Every single one of these people I knew twenty years ago is a complete person, a whole entire soul that is precious to God, and I have been confronted by the reality that it is an honor – a profound blessing and privilege – to have known them."
Jane Clark Scharl
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Not My Will, but Yours We don’t have to make a road for ourselves; we just have to walk in one that God has made for us.

"There is no peace for the man who takes himself for his starting point."
Adolphe Monod
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