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Our Summer issue *Searching for the Soul of America* is live! 🇺🇸

🧵See the thread of highlights below or read the issue here: https://t.co/MyfmiSKK6Z

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“At the heart of the American experiment is possibility. At the heart is risk. At the heart of it is this willingness to be this new thing, a citizen. It’s not hard to be a subject. You’re under authoritarian rule and you’re just putting up with stuff.” @KenBurns

https://t.co/TrdTVGfBJk

[Midge Goldberg @MidgeGoldberg]

Thanks for sharing this again, @Plough

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Those who desire to follow Jesus must dispense with the external safeguards provided by property. They must put all their trust in God, who will in turn provide them with all they need. And their hearts cannot remain tied to outer things; God alone must be their treasure.” —Andreas Knapp

https://t.co/vAyRstayAX

[Matt Johnston @MattInformed]

Can confirm.

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“Do not, therefore, close your eyes before the sufferings of your neighbors. Do not fear that it will destroy your happiness if you live in sympathy with them. This indeed brings something like a shadow into your life, and at the first moment you feel you cannot endure it; so you try to forget it. No. Hold it fast; take it into your life. Bring it into touch with your own happiness and joy. All that is only superficial will vanish, but the real happiness of family, of art and song, of nature and friendship and devotion – all will grow and become more real until they become that holiness in which they are a part of God’s presence in our lives.” —Emil Fuchs

https://t.co/eyz2KVBcvZ

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“Nature is herself a perpetually living finished product, a worker ceaselessly active, who knows how to employ everything, who in working by herself always on the same resources, far from exhausting them, renders them inexhaustible.” —Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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“We should recognize and accept the fact that division, dissension, and conflict have been our lot since the beginning of American history. Contentious times are nothing new for us.” —Wilfred M. McClay

https://t.co/rs5dikLOm2

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“Our work must follow two laws. We may not bear grudges against anyone, for the kingdom of God is God’s love for all people. And we must not annoy, scorn, or despise any of the poor as of less value than ourselves.” —Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

https://t.co/uvRbToEET3

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“Father Bryce Lungren’s spirituality takes materiality and the natural world seriously, in a way that fits well with the sacramental framework of the Church, which sees earthly things as imbued with divine importance.” @Zheschool

https://t.co/snfDNmSRIQ

[Plough Books @PloughBooks]

“Julian Peter’s books are a poetry readers best friend. Not because he tries to educate readers with pedantic adaptations. Rather his illustrations provide fresh takes and another dimension to these beloved classics of the poetry cannon.” —Dave-O

https://t.co/8NEd1sKBmP

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Those who desire to follow Jesus must dispense with the external safeguards provided by property. They must put all their trust in God, who will in turn provide them with all they need. And their hearts cannot remain tied to outer things; God alone must be their treasure.” —Andreas Knapp

https://t.co/vAyRstayAX

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

Join us next Wednesday at 5pm in Central Park to celebrate the Summer issue, Searching for the Soul of America! With @stephengadubato, @xsantiagoramos, Tara Isabella Burton, and @suzania – whose birthday we'll be celebrating! 🎉

Come for the conversation, stay for the 🍷 and 🧀
Or the inverse, if you like!

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“At the heart of the American experiment is possibility. At the heart is risk. At the heart of it is this willingness to be this new thing, a citizen. It’s not hard to be a subject. You’re under authoritarian rule and you’re just putting up with stuff.” @KenBurns

https://t.co/TrdTVGfBJk

[Santiago Ramos @xsantiagoramos]

Listening to Ornette Coleman for the first time, thanks to @lukeburgis
https://t.co/9rf5UcM1Ta

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“*Every Living Thing*, a nonfiction account of the origins of the fields of biology and taxonomy by writer Jason Roberts, digs into the ways that humans have tried to understand the relationship between the natural world and humankind.” —Sharla Moody

https://t.co/QYtzy4y58V

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“Some people think that to forgive is a sign of weakness. They’re wrong. In reality, it’s a sign of strength. It gives you life.” —Randi Kelder, @BTCspeakers

https://t.co/6kWFqpmvUL

[Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez]

That’s cool!

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“To move from the creation of content to art, we have to resist optimization: refuse to package ourselves, to be shaped by demand alone, or to be measured by metrics.” @lukeburgis

https://t.co/LOPd8tciNN

[Sr. Margaret Kerry fsp @Kerrygma]

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[Rick Garnett @RickGarnett]

“Perhaps on this auspicious anniversary we should take time out from our current quarrels long enough to raise a toast to those who made our quarrels possible.”

A Nation’s Birthday | Plough https://t.co/3qnOWEmrsn