Kelsey Osgood

Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia and has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, Longreads, and the Washington Post. She is currently working on a book about religious conversion among Millennial and Gen-Z women.

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October 11, 2022

PloughCast 39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow

King-Ho Leung, Kelsey Osgood, Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts

Susannah and Peter talk with Kelsey Osgood and King-Ho Leung about disciplines and the theology of vows.

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September 2, 2022

The Dance of Devotion

Kelsey Osgood

Lifestyle discipline in achievers is admired. Religious discipline in believers, not so much.

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February 1, 2022

PloughCast 23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body

Kelsey Osgood, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts

Kelsey Osgood grapples with raising her family in a Modern Orthodox Jewish community; Leah Libresco Sargeant looks at the good of dependence.

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PloughCast 39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow

The Dance of Devotion

PloughCast 23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body