The PloughCast
How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? What about technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family? Is another life possible? Plough editor Peter Mommsen and senior editor Susannah Black Roberts dig deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
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Following the Clues of the Universe by Alister ...
12 min
2
Passing On the Farm to My Daughter by James Reb...
17 min
3
Warehouse Workers of Paris Find Their Voice by ...
25 min
4
Stanley Hauerwas’s Provocations by Tish Harriso...
19 min
5
Building Solidarity in Europe’s Gig Economy by ...
20 min
6
In the Holy Land, Seeking the Solace of the Cro...
8 min
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The Quest to Emancipate Labor by Peter Mommsen
30 min
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Deerassic Park by Tim Maendel
A high-school science teacher and his students practice conservation in the woods and ponds of upstate New York.
14 min
9
Sister Penelope in Expectation by Grace Hamman
The mysterious friend of C. S. Lewis teaches how to know and be known in Christ.
20 min
10
Should I Read Scary Fairy Tales to My Child? by...
My kids already know the world is not safe. Will dragons and goblins make it worse?
15 min
11
Teaching the One Percent by Dhananjay Jagannathan
A Columbia professor defends the spiritual worth of liberal education.
15 min
12
Jesus Changes Everything: An Afternoon with Sta...
67 min
13
Tell an Old Story for Modern Times by Lisabeth ...
A Bruderhof teacher applies lessons from her mentors and Homer in her classroom and beyond.
26 min
14
Why We’re Failing to Pass on Christianity by Be...
How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it?
20 min
15
The School that Escaped to the Alps by Marianne...
Faced with a Nazi takeover, the first Bruderhof school took refuge in Liechtenstein.
23 min
16
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Fut...
Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.
26 min
17
Why I Became a Firefighter by Brit Frazier
A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
16 min
18
Schools for Philosopher-Carpenters by Alex Sosler
A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.
22 min
19
Educating for Freedom by Peter Mommsen
Has our society lost sight of how to raise young humans?
26 min
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The PloughRead: An Exodus From China by Pan Yon...
A persecuted house church chooses to flee together as a community.
14 min
21
The PloughRead: Paraguayans Don’t Read by Santi...
In a dictatorship, literature nurtures freedom. In a democracy, does it matter?
31 min
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The PloughRead: The Busted Bean by Maureen Swinger
Follow an old school bus’s transformation into a space for coffee and camaraderie.
7 min
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The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by...
14 min
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The PloughRead: Encounters at the Southern Bord...
Who are the migrants seeking asylum in the United States?
31 min
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The PloughRead: Jakob Hutter, Radical Reformer ...
In just three short years, the sixteenth-century martyr founded a church that has endured to this day.
11 min