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On this week's PloughCast @suzania and @PeterMommsen talk with @cartersnead about his book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. Watch the conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdOnN0C0Wjw

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"I have a very strong feeling that if you want to be a vital community you have to have a lot of corporate prayer." Henri J. M. Nouwen https://t.co/jFPl6jwiwE

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"And finally, @Plough ran a classic selection of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov on the withholding of judgement at all costs. It’s as relevant today as it was then:" https://t.co/H8YCvYO1Pf

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"The ending of the book suggests that it is our loving relationships w others that define us. Certainly this is a better basis for identity than the faulty metaphysics of race, but what of the soul?" @AnthonyMBarr reviews Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man https://t.co/PKr5lfJVQc

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Carrots & spinach are generally agreed to be good for you. My mind hasn’t changed on that. But after reading *What Your Food Ate,* by David Montgomery & Anne Biklé, I’ve found myself paying a lot more attention to the soil they came from. https://t.co/TsXhXZJC8w

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“Book Tour: The Greatest of These” by @phil_christman: https://t.co/9PM5tmr9DF Reviewing ‘The Impossible Art’ by Matthew Aucoin, ‘Magnificent Rebels’ by Andrea Wulf, ‘Jena 1800’ by Peter Neumann, and ‘Rahel Varnhagen’ by Hannah Arendt

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"And finally, @Plough ran a classic selection of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov on the withholding of judgement at all costs. It’s as relevant today as it was then:" https://t.co/H8YCvYO1Pf

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Read/listen to this classic Christmas tale by Pearl S. Buck: "He woke suddenly & completely. It was 4 o’clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still!" https://t.co/PCZAgTwU5Q

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky died this day in 1881. If you haven't seen this graphic novel rendition from “The Brothers Karamazov,” it’s a good day to check it out: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/grand-inquisitor

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Is this claim sacrilege? @joynessthebrave "l have long been of the opinion that Mr. Collins of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice gets a lot more flack than he deserves." https://t.co/oBagPhnefs