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Dori Moody
@dorimoody.bsky.social
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Editor @Plough; Member @Bruderhof

The Shire, Terebethia, Narnia
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The birth of my daughter confronted me with the competition between my autonomy and her demand to be loved.
Nafeesa Dawoodbhoy
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An Abortionist Changes Her Mind
The birth of my daughter confronted me with the competition between my autonomy and her demand to be loved.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Anne Bradstreet, mother to:
Samuel, Dorothy, Sarah, Simon, Hannah, Mercy, Dudley, John, 👏👏

Contemplate this Thanksgiving on her wonderful poem:
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Poem: “Contemplations”
The poem Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet, on nature and eternity, and the place of humankind in the universe.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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“The thing that I’ve come to realize about marriage is that just like with the gospel, it’s love that changes you. You can’t get there by your efforts. You can’t get there by talking yourself into it. But actually, the thing that changes us as human beings is encountering love.” —Sarah Killam Crosby
When You Believe in a Living God
What happens to your life, church, and marriage when you actually believe in the Holy Spirit?
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November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day".

🔥One of the best opening sentences ever: *True Grit* Charles Portis
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Probably my favorite @plough.bsky.social opening sentence this year:

"It’s 1980 Berlin, the Berlinest of years."

I wish the two angels traveling around Berlin could check in on Jackson Lamb and Smiley's people.

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The Angel Who Wanted a Hamburger
Karl Rahner helps us take angels seriously, even if they are admittedly hard to pin down.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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For @plough.bsky.social, I have written a little essay on beauty in music -- and unbeauty, too (though such things are in the eye, and the ear, of the beholder, and listener). See what you think. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
The Beauty of Dissonance
Music has a variety of jobs to do, as the other arts do. It can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"There are people who demand beauty, calm, and harmony in music – a demand that is perfectly understandable. I am talking about classical music, leaving other 'musics' aside just now."
Jay Nordlinger

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The Beauty of Dissonance
Music has a variety of jobs to do, as the other arts do. It can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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"Even the notion of “quality of life” as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a “good” healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering." #AliceWong
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November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Just discovered this older (but beautiful) essay by @dorimoody.bsky.social :

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A Broken but Faithful Marriage
Dori Moody relates the story of her grandparents marriage. Even though they separated, they remained faithful to one another.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A journalist heads to Dover to gauge local reactions to an influx of migrant dinghies – and discovers that the headlines get it all wrong.
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When Migrants Land in Britian
A journalist heads to Dover to gauge local reactions to an influx of migrant dinghies – and discovers that the headlines get it all wrong.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A new Another Life episode just dropped!

Phil Klay, a US Marines veteran, talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
The Collective Burden of War
US Marines veteran Phil Klay talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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When Christians Follow Nietzsche
Enthusiasm for Nietzsche’s ideal of human excellence and vitality has given rise to calls for manly Christian warriors to flex their superiority. -

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When Christians Follow Nietzsche
Enthusiasm for Nietzsche’s ideal of human excellence and vitality has given rise to calls for manly Christian warriors to flex their superiority.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If you can’t work wholeheartedly, it might be better not to work at all.
By John Ruskin

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The Only Way to Work
If you can’t work wholeheartedly, it might be better not to work at all.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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“In an age when many seem allergic to mystery, Rilke’s spiritual restraint feels radical. He teaches that faith is neither loud nor showy, that silence might better invite a visitation of the invisible.” @ysl.bsky.social
The Silence Around the Name
Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry becomes less religious as he draws nearer to God.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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How must it feel to a soul standing in dread before the Lord to sense at such an instant that for him too there is one to pray, that there is a fellow creature left on earth to love him too? #Dostoevsky

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Insights on Mercy
You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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This past year my aunt died which means my father's entire family is part of the upper church.

I'm thinking of them all with love today.

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The Bones of Memory
Dori Moody on the “last service of love” given to the dead, and their connection to the living.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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What the Weeds Are Telling Us
Ragan Sutterfield writes that in Arkansas, farmers are fighting and dying over pigweed, or Palmer amaranth. But do weeds have value?
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October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I enjoyed this on my transit ride to work today. The whole Fall issue has been excellent 🙂
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We are seeing an unexpected resurgence of openness to God and spiritual matters, and an uptick in religious participation. What’s behind it?

🎙️ Andrew Davison and Joy Clarkson

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Why Are People Returning to Church?
Andrew Davison and Joy Marie Clarkson examine the resurgence of belief in God and all things unseen.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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"Once we have experienced the word of God, we do not have the right not to receive it; once we have received it, we do not have the right not to allow it to become flesh in us,"

Madeleine Delbrêl

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October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This is just a lovely poem in several ways
dorimoody.bsky.social Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · Oct 24
Years later, I’d learn just how brave
my father was, and how a wave
of chill or doubt could leave him caught
in his own grim cocoon of thought.

Jean L. Kreiling
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Poem: “After Helping My Father Rake the Leaves”
Jean L. Kreiling remembers raking leaves with her father, an effort he made despite battling depression.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The Quiet Faith of a Man
Plough’s oldest staffer passes on a legacy.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Years later, I’d learn just how brave
my father was, and how a wave
of chill or doubt could leave him caught
in his own grim cocoon of thought.

Jean L. Kreiling
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Poem: “After Helping My Father Rake the Leaves”
Jean L. Kreiling remembers raking leaves with her father, an effort he made despite battling depression.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"We humans all have the same natural needs: food, clothing, shelter. Ever since humans have existed, however, we have competed for and fought over these basic things."
Andreas Knapp

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Why I Chose Poverty
Andreas Knapp, a member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel says wealth is not only an unwieldy burden, but is incompatible with love of neighbor.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
—L. M. Montgomery
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM