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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 1d

To live better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore.

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#JoyClarkson, #PeterMommsen and #MaureenSwinger

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Introducing Another Life Podcast

To live better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore.

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't have time for this whole talk, at least start at 16:40. Paul outlines "six little proposals" to help us all live through our times. Do take a listen!
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Paul Kingsnorth: After the Machine

The Machine, the technological-cultural-capitalistic matrix, encompasses much of contemporary existence. In this age, how can we remain human?

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 3d

The Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus (ca. ad 100) lived in Rome as a contemporary of Nero. His lecture “On the Chief End of Marriage” is a remarkable statement by a thinker who stands outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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The Chief End of Marriage

The Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus’s lecture ‘On the Chief End of Marriage’ is a remarkable statement by a thinker who stands outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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Stupid Loser @ineptstupidloser.bsky.social · 8d

A relevant article I previously stumbled across which discusses leisure’s importance in society and how reading played a role in labor movements: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

The Freedom to Read

Charlie Tyson argues that the future of reading depends on control over our time.

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 4d

"Undoubtedly you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you want in love." Basil the Great
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Liberate Your Wealth

Excerpts from Aurelius Ambrosius and Basil the Great taken from Charles Avila, Ownership: Early Christian Teaching (Orbis, 1983).

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 7d

“The criterion of a genuinely Christian spirituality is the experience of spiritual suffering. This is what it means to be marked with the sign of the Son of Man, that is, the cross.” —Benjamin Crosby

Am I a Christian if I Don’t Have Spiritual Experiences?

Christians often desire ecstatic encounters with the divine. But not everyone has them.

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 9d

"Sometimes, people will leave a role and explain their departure by saying God has “called” them elsewhere. At times, I wish they’d simply say, 'Hey, I decided I want to do this new thing.' Because surely that is the case at times."

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How Do You Find Your Calling in Life?

I don’t have a secret formula or surefire plan, but I can point you in the right direction.

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 12d

Watch the video of Paul Kingsnorth speaking about his new book, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity.

Thanks to sponsor Abigail Adams Institute and thank you Sean D. Kelly and Jacqueline C. Rivers for your responses.

Paul Kingsnorth: After the Machine

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 16d

"... paint the portrait or the porch. Try again after the miscarriage; love the children whose hands you wash and the children whose hands you never got to. Get the puppy. Live. Live. Live."

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Six Kids and Six Pets

A chaotic puppy taught me to embrace the beautiful messiness of life.

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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 17d

"A veil now hung btwn me & the world..I still inhabited but fr some surreal distance. Every..thing became a costly calculation.. #Guilt threaded..into every #sensation of #pain. If only I had had more restraint, stayed more still, did even less.": buff.ly/FLIlwMM

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#spoonie

Chronically Healthy, Chronically Ill

Living with a chronic illness, I’ve traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.

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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 22d

"When I became a #mother, I was a productivity-focused graduate student who used her busyness to ignore a fundamental #truth: life is, in its basic nature, unpredictable. So is the experience of bearing it.": buff.ly/UJSLTrk

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#LifeLessons #parenting #disability

My Daughter Exists

What parenting a child with severe disabilities has taught me about dependence.

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