Dori Moody
@dorimoody.bsky.social
Editor @Plough; Member @Bruderhof
The Shire, Terebethia, Narnia
Ingalls, Nesbit, Eager, Ransome
The Shire, Terebethia, Narnia
Ingalls, Nesbit, Eager, Ransome
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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
Just discovered this older (but beautiful) essay by @dorimoody.bsky.social :
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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
A journalist heads to Dover to gauge local reactions to an influx of migrant dinghies – and discovers that the headlines get it all wrong.
@horatioclare.bsky.social
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@horatioclare.bsky.social
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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.
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
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.
Phil Klay, a US Marines veteran, talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
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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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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
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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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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If you can’t work wholeheartedly, it might be better not to work at all.
By John Ruskin
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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
If you can’t work wholeheartedly, it might be better not to work at all.
By John Ruskin
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By John Ruskin
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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
“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
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
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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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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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
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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I'm thinking of them all with love today.
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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
I enjoyed this on my transit ride to work today. The whole Fall issue has been excellent 🙂
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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🎙️ 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
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
www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...
🎙️ Andrew Davison and Joy Clarkson
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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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Madeleine Delbrêl
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October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"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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Madeleine Delbrêl
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This is just a lovely poem in several ways
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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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
This is just a lovely poem in several ways
Reposted by Dori Moody
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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
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
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
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Poem: “After Helping My Father Rake the Leaves”
Jean L. Kreiling remembers raking leaves with her father, an effort he made despite battling depression.
www.plough.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
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
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
"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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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
"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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Andreas Knapp
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
—L. M. Montgomery
—L. M. Montgomery
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
—L. M. Montgomery
—L. M. Montgomery
“Your purpose is to touch the heart, to instill joy, to delight the ear.”
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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The Miracle of Simple Happiness
Music to touch the heart, to instill joy, to delight the ear.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Your purpose is to touch the heart, to instill joy, to delight the ear.”
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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"Saints do shocking things . It's what makes them saints." Spoken by Apple, the pig.
A wonderful Christmas story. #SusannaClarke reads beautifully; the music and audio tracks are exquisite. A gorgeous way to spend 35 minutes today.
A wonderful Christmas story. #SusannaClarke reads beautifully; the music and audio tracks are exquisite. A gorgeous way to spend 35 minutes today.
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Saints do shocking things . It's what makes them saints." Spoken by Apple, the pig.
A wonderful Christmas story. #SusannaClarke reads beautifully; the music and audio tracks are exquisite. A gorgeous way to spend 35 minutes today.
A wonderful Christmas story. #SusannaClarke reads beautifully; the music and audio tracks are exquisite. A gorgeous way to spend 35 minutes today.
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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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#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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October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
To live better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore.
@plough.bsky.social
#JoyClarkson, #PeterMommsen and #MaureenSwinger
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@plough.bsky.social
#JoyClarkson, #PeterMommsen and #MaureenSwinger
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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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October 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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!
www.plough.com/en/events/20...
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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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October 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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.
www.plough.com/en/topics/li...
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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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October 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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...
"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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October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"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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