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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 7h
“I’ve been a bit of a Pärt-head since childhood, when I was introduced to his music. I’ve also always been a big fan of graphic novels, so in many ways, this was a match made in heaven. Put some Pärt on while you read and you’ll have a solid time.” —Ella
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Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical …
Between Two Sounds follows the life of world-famous com…
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 7h
“Capital punishment is a pro-life issue. How can killing a person guilty of killing another person ever serve to teach respect for the sanctity of human life?” —Ronald J. Sider
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Womb to Tomb | Plough
Christians must live out our belief that Christ is Lord, and think and pray for wisdom to act politically in ways that best reflect this. But how, exactly, do we let Christ be Lord of our politics? An...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join Us! Plough Reader Meetup in Tampa, FL 🗓️ October 24 at 1 pm 📍 Piccolo Buco by Cooper’s Hawk This is a chance to discuss the latest issue of Plough, meet other readers in your area, learn from each other, and generally enjoy good company and refreshments. www.plough.com/events/tampa...
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Tampa Plough Reader Meetup | Plough Events
Join other Plough readers in your area for discussion and fellowship.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*On Reconciliation: What Israelis and Palestinians Can Learn from South Africa and Rwanda* by Maya Savir publishes next week! Pre-order a copy: www.plough.com/books/on-rec...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“I try to be at the center of the need, because my one wish is to share, even a little, with those in need. When I was sinking, others reached out to me; a Japanese ship saved me. So now I want to repay the Japanese in turn – the earthquake survivors, the people sleeping rough.” —Maria Lê Thị Lan
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Saved at Sea | Plough
A rescued Vietnamese boat person has devoted her life to serving new waves of migrants.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We hope you’ve had a chance to read the most recent issue of Plough, and found it as refreshing and challenging as we did producing it. If you’d like to get a copy, subscribe here: subscribe.plough.com/flex/PPH/YPS...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Plough's Autumn issue, Carlos Egaña writes about friendship in Maduro's Venezuela, & @notorioustib.bsky.social argues that art & friendship complement each other. Join Carlos, Tara, & Plough editors for an evening of discussion & cocktails at the KGB Bar Red Room. www.plough.com/events/frien...
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Friendship Issue Launch Party | Plough Events
Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? What obligations does it impose? Does it involve sacrifice? Should we be striving to be better friends?
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The gospel is not a fairytale. It is the truest story, and its beauty becomes flesh when we dare to live it out – imperfectly, together.” —Kacey Sycamore
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Beckoned by Beauty | Plough
How I stumbled into a story much bigger than my own – and found my way to the Bruderhof.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us on Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 PM in Washington, DC for the book launch of *On Reconciliation*. RSVP recommended but not required: calendar.gwu.edu/event/on-rec...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Rowan Williams, theologian and former archbishop of Canterbury, argues that solidarity names a project. It is a project grounded in recognition of oneself as essentially relational, of the irreducible integrity of another’s experience, and of our common vulnerability.” —Matthew Moser
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Bearing Another’s Burdens | Plough
Matthew Moser reviews Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Rowan Williams.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *Be Not Afraid* by Johann Christoph Arnold, in the Downloads section of their account.
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Be Not Afraid | Plough Books
This best-selling volume addresses fears every human faces – vulnerability, illness, aging, and dying. Arnold says living for a cause greater than ourselves enables us to face eternity with the streng...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Let fall your shadows on the sundials, upon the fields let loose your winds. —Rainer Marie Rilke Read our latest PloughStack: ploughstack.substack.com/p/rilkes-aut...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We’ve learned now, both from adults and children who have had sex changes, that these surgeries are not benefiting them. They are not better. They may think for a while that they are, but if you follow up after about ten years, that is not the case.” —Paul R. McHugh
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Gender Medicine and Truth | Plough
Psychiatrist Paul R. McHugh says good intentions aren’t enough.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In Iowa he had come into touch yet again with the internal music of things... This was the music of nature, of its moods and sounds and mysterious patterns, but also the music of friendship... and the music within Dvořák’s own soul.” —Nathan Beacom
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When Dvořák Went to Iowa to Meet God | Plough
What melody could stop us in our tracks and stir in us a dim memory, a dim hope, of our final home?
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Howard Thurman’s genius lay not in his social organizing, nor in his policies, but in his consistent refrain that the way forward for human division lay in the patient cultivation of souls who were unafraid to love.” —Myles Werntz, editor of *Nothing Can Separate Us*
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The forgotten civil-rights leader who knew that laws and lawsuits couldn’t heal America’s racial divide
Howard Thurman was a trusted guide for Martin Luther King Jr and other civil-rights leaders.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re having a FRIENDSHIP issue launch in NYC next week! Tell your friends! Sign up here: www.plough.com/events/frien...
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Friendship Issue Launch Party | Plough Events
Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? What obligations does it impose? Does it involve sacrifice? Should we be striving to be better friends?
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The mood of nonviolence is that of reconciliation. It engenders in the individual an attitude that inspires wholeness and integration within. It provides the climate in which the things that are needed for peace, or for one’s own peace, may be sensed, disclosed, and developed.” —Howard Thurman
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No One Ever Wins a Fight | Plough
Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Emmy Barth Maendel has preserved the sharp polemical tone of this sixteenth-century Hutterite text and rendered its many biblical quotations directly so that the compilers' understanding of each passage remains intact.” —Kenny Wollman, Hutterian Brethren Book Centre
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The Great Article Book | Plough Books
A sixteenth-century Anabaptist treatise lays out church teaching on adult baptism, the Lord’s Supper, community of goods, nonviolence, participation in government, marriage, and more...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Rilke’s Autumn Reverie
On Seizing the Day Before It Is Too Late
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maya Savir’s book, *On Reconciliation*, will be published next month. She will be at book tour events in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, and San Francisco. Register to attend: www.plough.com/events/on-re...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“In a cultural moment when the scope of friendship feels narrow, crowded by our own religious and political divisions, the friendship of the Cappadocian Fathers suggests a generous way of seeing further and pushing back the limits of what we can imagine.” —Oliver B. Langworthy
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Still My Friend | Plough
The Cappadocian Fathers shared a friendship with space for plenty of disagreement.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“To crack a cold heart, to train it in love, is the most liberating service any person can do for another. These gifts do not show up on an ultrasound. They aren’t mentioned in the first diagnosis of disability.” —Maureen Swinger
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The Teacher Who Never Spoke | Plough
A formidable young man stayed with our family on a summer break from the Ivy League. He had never, to anyone’s knowledge, lost an argument. Until he met my brother Duane, that is – my brother, w...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vincent W. Lloyd, who wrote the foreword to *Nothing Can Separate Us*, is this week's guest on Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson. Listen to the episode here: www.plough.com/articles/who...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Apocalypse does not mean simply fear. Rather, it means fear that turns to joy. Christianity waits in confidence for history to culminate in a mighty goal. For the first Christians, this waiting was like a torch in the night.” —Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
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The Other Side of Revelation | Plough
John’s Apocalypse can seem terrifying. But that’s not how the story ends.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s Pub Day for *Nothing Can Separate Us* by Howard Thurman! Purchase here: www.plough.com/books/nothin...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who Were Harold Cruse and Howard Thurman? Vincent W. Lloyd is on the podcast today with Joy Marie Clarkson to discuss two towering figures of twentieth-century black intellectual life.
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Who Were Harold Cruse and Howard Thurman? | Plough
Vincent W. Lloyd is on the podcast to discuss two towering figures of twentieth-century black intellectual life.
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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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The Poustinik Option | Plough
From the ancient Christian East, Doherty retrieved for the modern West a paradigm of peace.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The book launch for *Nothing Can Separate Us* is tomorrow! (YouTube, 7:00 p.m. ET) Join Vincent W. Lloyd, Myles Werntz, and Paul Harvey to discuss Howard Thurman’s belief that God can still transcend every barrier and heal every wound. Register here: www.plough.com/events/heali...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The enclosures of our time are mostly digital, as corporations colonize everyday life and work while homogenizing a vacant culture at the cost of local ways of life. The primary goal is the infinite expansion of power.” —Joe Knight
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Hope in an Age of Enclosure | Plough
In the summer of 1831, thousands of people took pickaxes to a fence enclosing forest that had been in common use for generations. What ways of life are we called to defend today?
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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"When he gave us a tour of the Vatican last May, I said, 'You’re the first Augustinian pope!' 'Yeah,' he said, 'took a long time to regain trust after Luther.'"
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Poetry’s proper place is not, first and foremost, in academia, but in our homes. … When we invite poetry into our homes, we make our family life more abundant, but we also help poetry itself grow richer and more beautiful.” —Jane Clark Scharl
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Poetry at Home | Plough
Your home is happier with poetry in it – and poetry is better for being there.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“It is impossible to look on my conversion of mind on the question of abortion and ignore the way Truth and Goodness itself, which is to say God, was pursuing me.” —Nafeesa Dawoodbhoy
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An Abortion Clinic Worker Changes Her Mind | Plough
The birth of my daughter confronted me with the competition between my autonomy and her demand to be loved.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join us for the book launch of *On Reconciliation* by Maya Savir in Washington, DC on October 6th. Register to attend: calendar.gwu.edu/event/on-rec...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“‘I am sure there are many people on the crew who would say they are of no faith,’ Chris Limbert says, ‘but being on the crew is an incredibly Christian act. It’s a very Christian thing to do; it’s living for love of other people.’” @horatioclare.bsky.social
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Firing Themselves into the ­Merciless Fury | Plough
Off the coast of Britain, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution save lives.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The online book launch of *Nothing Can Separate Us* is next week, Sept 22, 7:00 p.m. ET. Join Vincent W. Lloyd, Myles Werntz, and Paul Harvey to discuss Howard Thurman's belief that God can still transcend every barrier and heal every wound. Register here: www.plough.com/events/heali...
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Healing for Souls and Nations: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual Legacy | Plough Events
Join Vincent W. Lloyd, Myles Werntz, and Paul Harvey to discuss Howard Thurman's belief that God can still transcend every barrier and heal every wound.
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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The loneliness of the American male and the warmth of the group chat. Oliver Lee Bateman www.plough.com/articles/boy...
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Boy Talk | Plough
The loneliness of the American male and the warmth of the group chat.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Sometimes peace simply eludes us for a long time. But God will not allow us to be shaken. Help will come, and it always comes in time. So do not be afraid.” —Johann Christoph Blumhardt
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Cast Your Cares on the Lord | Plough
Sometimes peace simply eludes us for a long time. But God will not allow us to be shaken. Help will come.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.” —Annie Dillard
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Insights on Beauty | Plough
Insights on the nature of beauty, from Jacques Maritain, Dorothy Day, Basil of Caesarea, and Annie Dillard.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I’ve heard Leo say, as pope, ‘Do not lead with your differences; let’s not lead with what divides us.’ I think the Christ in Bob recognized the Christ in us, and vice versa – that was what mattered: community, belonging, not being alone.” —John Snider
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My Friend, Pope Bob | Plough
How a friendship that began in seminary has thrived across decades and Catholic–Lutheran divides.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Next week, join us online with Vincent W. Lloyd, Myles Werntz, and Paul Harvey to discuss Howard Thurman's belief that God can still transcend every barrier and heal every wound. RSVP today! www.plough.com/events/heali...
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Healing for Souls and Nations: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual Legacy | Plough Events
Join Vincent W. Lloyd, Myles Werntz, and Paul Harvey to discuss Howard Thurman's belief that God can still transcend every barrier and heal every wound.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join @horatioclare.bsky.social, Erik Van Aken, & other Plough readers & contributors in London on 25 Sept to discuss all things Friendship. Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? An evening of discussion over a drink at The Sekforde. RSVP today! www.plough.com/events/frien...
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Friendship: Plough Autumn Issue Launch UK | Plough Events
Friendship is an obvious blessing, but how important is it? What obligations does it impose? Does it involve sacrifice? Should we be striving to be better friends?
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Howard Thurman was a prophet, and this book gives a good insight into the main messages he conveyed. ... The bulk of the book is extracts from his writings. They are permeated by a sense of the critical importance of our respecting each other as equals, whatever our background...” —Michael C.
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Nothing Can Separate Us: Healing for Souls and Nations …
People may be more divided than ever. But Howard Thurma…
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“In witnessing Ian’s life and learning about faith through him, I discerned that converting to Christianity did not mean that you were giving up on life or that it was falling apart; rather, it represented a coming together...” —Emmarae R. Blum
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My Conversion Friend | Plough
Ian and I met when I was a twenty-year-old agnostic.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*On Reconciliation: What Israelis and Palestinians Can Learn from South Africa and Rwanda* by Maya Savir is publishing next month! Pre-order a copy: www.plough.com/books/on-rec...
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“’I’m interested in the sense of the mystery of the world, or the unknown qualities of existence—trying to capture that visually,’ Peters said. *Nature Poems to See By* includes several comics that consider God, the divine and creation.” —Ben Koop Book Review: canadianmennonite.org/capturing-th...
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Richard Guisinger @richardguisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This profound article arrived 3 wks after the stray Boxer I was caring for died, confirming the deeply sacred moment I felt at her death. Amazing the unexpected gifts from God. Grateful to the one who brought the stray to me, to author Van Aken, and to @plough.bsky.social for bringing these gifts.
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How a Rescue Dog Saved Me | Plough
When I first met Sam, he was nearly feral. But he became more than a friend.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“A friend is to be loved freely, for his own sake, not for the sake of something else. If the rule of friendship urges you to love human beings freely for their own sakes, how much more freely is God to be loved, who bids you love other people!” —Augustine of Hippo
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Nothing More Delightful than God | Plough
What things should ever force you to break the ties of friendship with God?
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Emmanuel had such promise, and as I paced around at dawn I would yell at his lingering memory for not being there for me anymore. But he decided to go gentle into that good night.” —Carlos Egaña
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Speak of Kings | Plough
In Venezuela, ­my friendships resisted tyranny and despair.
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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lovely meditation on friendship w god
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“In *Nothing Can Separate Us*, Thurman’s prophetic voice reminds us that the human condition requires us ‘to say yes to life and to our life,’ that authentic living is not something to be postponed into an uncertain future,... @mehpoeting.bsky.social
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Nothing Can Separate Us | Plough Books
The spiritual advisor to civil rights legends reminds us what faith demands in times that call for action and integrity.
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