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“She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down, and not one hair of her head shall be harmed.” —G. K. Chesterton
I Begin with a Little Girl’s Hair
With the red hair of one she-urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
“She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down, and not one hair of her head shall be harmed.” —G. K. Chesterton
“From photographic charcoal to whimsical 70s style, the art helps set the mood of each poem and interpret some of the trickier words. It gives readers permission to feel and interpret things fantastically instead of literally....” —Sirah
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Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More …
This stunning anthology of favorite poems about our rel…
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February 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
“From photographic charcoal to whimsical 70s style, the art helps set the mood of each poem and interpret some of the trickier words. It gives readers permission to feel and interpret things fantastically instead of literally....” —Sirah
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This week’s free ebook for Plough subscribers is *At the Heart of the White Rose*.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
This week’s free ebook for Plough subscribers is *At the Heart of the White Rose*.
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#thewhiterose #DieweißeRose #hansscholl #sophiescholl
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#thewhiterose #DieweißeRose #hansscholl #sophiescholl
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"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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Deliver Us from the Evil One
The devil was more than a metaphor for early Christians.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"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."
@womeninchurch.bsky.social
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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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New Lent Devotional from Plough Publishing #lentendevotional #lentreadings #easterreadings #lent
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February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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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New PloughRead from @brvnathan.bsky.social: “My Mother’s Hidden Radiance”
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My Mother’s Hidden Radiance by Brandon Vaidyanathan
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February 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
New PloughRead from @brvnathan.bsky.social: “My Mother’s Hidden Radiance”
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📻 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1wTG...
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“For me, it’s been about a sort of incarnational ministry. It’s a very old-fashioned model, more akin to George Herbert than Billy Graham, going alongside people and gently showing them the truth.” - Thomas Pelham
That’s gold.
That’s gold.
“I go out to play at the local cricket club and go to the pub afterwards and just mingle. It’s about trying to find people where they are and gradually bringing them in. When you look at Jesus as a model – which we always ought to – he is generally relational.” —Thomas Pelham
Signs of Life in Small Churches
Two Anglican priests, one in England and one in Canada, trade notes on the state of their parishes and their hope for the future.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
“For me, it’s been about a sort of incarnational ministry. It’s a very old-fashioned model, more akin to George Herbert than Billy Graham, going alongside people and gently showing them the truth.” - Thomas Pelham
That’s gold.
That’s gold.
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My latest piece in @plough.bsky.social on scripted vs. revealed beauty
“Our appearance-obsessed culture trains us to measure ourselves and others by very particular forms of beauty – at the cost of health, freedom, and even love.” @brvnathan.bsky.social
My Mother’s Hidden Radiance
For years, her mental illness kept me from seeing her beauty.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My latest piece in @plough.bsky.social on scripted vs. revealed beauty
“I go out to play at the local cricket club and go to the pub afterwards and just mingle. It’s about trying to find people where they are and gradually bringing them in. When you look at Jesus as a model – which we always ought to – he is generally relational.” —Thomas Pelham
Signs of Life in Small Churches
Two Anglican priests, one in England and one in Canada, trade notes on the state of their parishes and their hope for the future.
www.plough.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
“I go out to play at the local cricket club and go to the pub afterwards and just mingle. It’s about trying to find people where they are and gradually bringing them in. When you look at Jesus as a model – which we always ought to – he is generally relational.” —Thomas Pelham
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“Plough Publishing has once again offered a high-quality treasure-trove from Christianity’s classical authors. This expanded edition…warrants its place as a keeper for annual use well beyond the bounds of the Lenten season and Pentecost.” —Bradley Jersak
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February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
“Plough Publishing has once again offered a high-quality treasure-trove from Christianity’s classical authors. This expanded edition…warrants its place as a keeper for annual use well beyond the bounds of the Lenten season and Pentecost.” —Bradley Jersak
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In the latest episode of Another Life, Joy Marie Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship.
In Defense of Iconoclasm
In this episode of Another Life, Joy Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
In the latest episode of Another Life, Joy Marie Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship.
The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social’s Top Ten 2025 Best Graphic Novels for Adults list includes *Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to his Musical Language* by Joonas Sildre.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social’s Top Ten 2025 Best Graphic Novels for Adults list includes *Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to his Musical Language* by Joonas Sildre.
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2026/01...
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2026/01...
“In an age when we seem to spend much of our lives online, there’s a growing hunger for the material, the tangible, the sacramental, and people are beginning to take a greater interest in the reassuring rhythms of the ritual year.” @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
A Light to Lighten the Gentiles
Candlemas is a Christian festival rich in history and lore.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
“In an age when we seem to spend much of our lives online, there’s a growing hunger for the material, the tangible, the sacramental, and people are beginning to take a greater interest in the reassuring rhythms of the ritual year.” @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
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“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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#environment #nature #mindfulness #BirdWatching #animals
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#environment #nature #mindfulness #BirdWatching #animals
Consider the Birds
Birdwatching, George Orwell suggests, makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable. Calvin and Hobbes would agree.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
“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
from @plough.bsky.social
#environment #nature #mindfulness #BirdWatching #animals
from @plough.bsky.social
#environment #nature #mindfulness #BirdWatching #animals
“It is appalling to see how quickly human beings are willing to assume the worst about another human being. It is also appalling – and clarifying – to see how many people abandon their beliefs to follow partisan politics.” —Jane Clark Scharl
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.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:36 AM
“It is appalling to see how quickly human beings are willing to assume the worst about another human being. It is also appalling – and clarifying – to see how many people abandon their beliefs to follow partisan politics.” —Jane Clark Scharl
Narine Abgaryan talked about her book *To Go On Living* to a sold-out venue at Armenian House in London on January 27. She was interviewed by Plough’s Books & Culture editor, Joy Marie Clarkson. Zepyur Batikyan interpreted.
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Get the book here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
January 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Narine Abgaryan talked about her book *To Go On Living* to a sold-out venue at Armenian House in London on January 27. She was interviewed by Plough’s Books & Culture editor, Joy Marie Clarkson. Zepyur Batikyan interpreted.
Get the book here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Get the book here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
“Love for our neighbor, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius.” —Simone Weil
How to Love Your Neighbor
Simone Weil explores how love between the weak and strong, between the afflicted and the comforter, is impossible but made real through the love of God.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
“Love for our neighbor, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius.” —Simone Weil
“*Come Again, Pelican* is a restored edition by Plough Publishing of a lovely classic story by Don Freeman...The illustrations in the book are so beautiful, with bright yet somehow muted watercolors, making it great book for bedtime.” —Phoebe Farag Mikhail
Come Again, Pelican
From the creator of Corduroy, a newly restored classic picture book that celebrates a child’s bond with the natural world.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
“*Come Again, Pelican* is a restored edition by Plough Publishing of a lovely classic story by Don Freeman...The illustrations in the book are so beautiful, with bright yet somehow muted watercolors, making it great book for bedtime.” —Phoebe Farag Mikhail
New PloughRead from Kacey Sycamore: “Beckoned by Beauty”
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Beckoned by Beauty by Kacey Sycamore
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January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New PloughRead from Kacey Sycamore: “Beckoned by Beauty”
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New review:
To Go On Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, translated into English by Margarit Ordukhanyan & Zara Torlone
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To Go On Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, translated into English by Margarit Ordukhanyan & Zara Torlone
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January 16, 2026 at 9:20 PM
New review:
To Go On Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, translated into English by Margarit Ordukhanyan & Zara Torlone
englewoodreview.org/...
To Go On Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, translated into English by Margarit Ordukhanyan & Zara Torlone
englewoodreview.org/...
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When we in other cities ask what we can learn from Minnesota, perhaps this sense of community and communal care is a big one of them
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Why Minneapolis Needs Potlucks Now
When my neighbors are threatened with deportation, is it naive to think sharing food can make a difference?
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January 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM
When we in other cities ask what we can learn from Minnesota, perhaps this sense of community and communal care is a big one of them
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This is the greatest poem written by a Michigander.
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
—Robert Hayden
A visual interpretation by Julian Peters:
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
—Robert Hayden
A visual interpretation by Julian Peters:
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is the greatest poem written by a Michigander.
“The same brain scans that showed activation of certain areas during anger showed the reverse with forgiveness. Kimmel‘s conclusion: ‘This makes forgiveness a powerful brain-biological process for addressing revenge addiction – if we use it.’” —Tim Maendel
The Science of Revenge
A new book helps us understand and overcome the world’s deadliest addiction.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
“The same brain scans that showed activation of certain areas during anger showed the reverse with forgiveness. Kimmel‘s conclusion: ‘This makes forgiveness a powerful brain-biological process for addressing revenge addiction – if we use it.’” —Tim Maendel
“Quite literally the best compiled writings on the journey of Christ to the cross and the Resurrection I have EVER read.” —Leslie Medlin
Get *Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter* here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Get *Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter* here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
“Quite literally the best compiled writings on the journey of Christ to the cross and the Resurrection I have EVER read.” —Leslie Medlin
Get *Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter* here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Get *Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter* here: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...