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Dori Moody

@dorimoody.bsky.social

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Editor @Plough; Member @Bruderhof The Shire, Terebethia, Narnia Ingalls, Nesbit, Eager, Ransome

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 1d

“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.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 3d

"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."

@karenswallowprior.bsky.social

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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 · 5d

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 · 9d

"... 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."

Very beautiful short essay:
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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 · 11d

"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

via @plough.bsky.social
#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 · 15d

"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

via @plough.bsky.social
#LifeLessons #parenting #disability

My Daughter Exists

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

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

And perhaps my favorite (although it is not the most important):

"I am with book, as a woman is with child."

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

"Each breath I drew let into me new terror, joy, overpowering sweetness. I was pierced through and through with the arrows of it. I was being unmade. I was no one."

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

"I could never be at peace again until I had written my charge against the gods. It burned me from within."

"I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods help. And why did the gods not help?"

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

“Today I shall meet cruel man, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad.”

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 10d

I read *Till We Have Faces* through for the second time--incredibly moving, perhaps #CSLewis' greatest work of fiction. Adding below the most stimulating quotes:

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 13d

Probably the essay that people bring up to me the most. I’ve had writers in crowded magazine parties tell me how much they liked it.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 14d

Reminded me of this enchanting essay from
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The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes

Zito Madu in pursuit of London’s wildlife.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 14d

Reminded me of this enchanting essay from
@zeets.bsky.social

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The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes

Zito Madu in pursuit of London’s wildlife.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 14d

I waited a month for the audiobook after reading this review. Well worth the wait! Both the story and voice recording by @yangszechoo.bsky.social are enchanting. Following behind the two detectives, one a man, and one a fox, was delightful! 🦊
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The Revenge of the Fox Spirit

Yangsze Choo’s The Fox Wife is a delightful blend of genres: detective story, romance, and fairy tale.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 14d

The story of perfect joy from *The Little Flowers of Saint Francis*.

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Three Companions of Saint Francis

Saint Francis’s close companions – Bernard, Giles, and Leo – were knights of God and their allegiance was to the cross of Christ.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 22d

"Examine and do not even listen if they speak of the glorified Jesus, unless you have first heard of the crucified Jesus."

@benjamindcrosby.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther in this new and insightful article:

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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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Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · Sep 1

A beautiful piece by my friend Alice about dependence and Christian community. "To become a parent is fundamentally a radical act of hospitality, a promise to welcome and care for a tiny stranger who comes along, whoever he or she may be." www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

My Daughter Exists

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

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 23d

Thomas Traherne wants you to enjoy the world.
@gracehammers.bsky.social

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We Are All Heirs

Thomas Traherne wants you to enjoy the world.

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · Apr 16

Wittgenstein, Cassirer, Heidegger, and Benjamin Walk into a Bar

A review of two group biographies: Wolfram Eilenberger’s *Time of the Magicians* and Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb’s *The Women Are Up to Something*.
@dwaldenwrites.bsky.social

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Wittgenstein, Cassirer, Heidegger, and Benjamin Walk into a Bar

A review of two group biographies: Wolfram Eilenberger’s Time of the Magicians and Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb’s The Women Are Up to Something.

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J.R. @interrobang5000.bsky.social · 28d

I like this poem

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Poem: “It Could Be Worse”

Poem: It Could Be Worse by A. E. Stallings

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Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) @appalachianpbp.bsky.social · Jul 9

We loved this story about books and libraries—from the beloved public ones on the outside to those imagined, created, and built book by book on the inside—by incarcerated writer Dan Grote via @plough.bsky.social. 📖

As Dan says, "Long live the magic of the book!"

The Library of Convicts

A prisoner discovers books are an escape, and when he finds the prison library inadequate, he takes matters into his own hands.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · Sep 5

The @plough.bsky.social quarterly has been a rich and delightful reading discovery. If you’re looking for a new enriching resource, I commend to you their good work.

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · Sep 6

"What kind of people do you think they were the Grimms to tell children such stories? How the world really is?.... There are no children in Berlin. So maybe they were right, the Grimms."

Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · Sep 6

Superbly written and devastating.
#JosephKanon's *Leaving Berlin* sums up the moral mess that world WWII unleashed. I could not bear the ending.