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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22: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Dow...
Peter and Susannah talk to Rosemarie Garland-Thomson about bioethics and with J. D. Flynn about genetic testing and parenting kids with Down syndrome.
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21: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means t...
Peter and Susannah talk with O. Carter Snead about his book What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics.
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20: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization
How do we face suffering, chronic pain, and disease? Ross Douthat’s chronic Lyme and Aimee Murphy’s fibromyalgia are unexpected avenues into truth.
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19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and M...
Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black discuss Peter’s editorial on life and disability. Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks about living as a disabled woman.
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The PloughRead: The Three Young Kings by George...
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The PloughRead: The Christmas Rose by Selma Lag...
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The PloughRead: The Quest for Home by Santiago ...
Immigrants like me live with a double homelessness. That’s not necessarily bad.
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The PloughRead: Three Kants and a Thousand Skul...
In Rwanda, the tales of a young student, an Enlightenment philosopher, and a skull-hunting colonialist intertwine.
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The PloughRead: In Search of Lost Fig Trees by ...
Can our memories bring us back home? A mosaic of fathers and daughters, Damascene chocolates, and the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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The PloughRead: The End of Rage by Ashley Lucas
A Black Panther in prison makes a reckoning: the story of Russell Maroon Shoatz.
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The PloughRead: Home Is Not Just a Place by Edw...
With words we build homes no separation can take away.
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The PloughRead: Integrity and the Future of the...
Why are so many young people losing faith?
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18: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other...
Are all national borders unchristian? Peter and Susannah answer listener questions.
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17: Christian Nationalism
What is Christian nationalism, and what should the relationship of church and state be?
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16: The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism
Can 29 years in solitary confinement break the ties of family? Must they destroy a legacy, and cut short a life’s work?
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15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Tara Isabella Burton, Dhananjay Jagannathan, and John Milbank join the hosts for a series of conversations on place, nation, empire, the need for roots, and morally ambiguous semi-fallen angels.
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14: Empire and its Discontents
From Rome to America, the world has been shaped by empires. How did the subversive power of the Christian ideal transform that imperial idea, and the mind of the West?
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13: One Cheer for the Nation-State
Are national cultures something God values? What do we owe the sojourner? And is there something to this idea of Christendom?
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The PloughRead: Behold the Mandalorian by Josh ...
Meekness and Masculinity in Star Wars
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The PloughRead: More Fish Than Sauce by Iván Be...
Fishing the Mouth of the Panama Canal
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The PloughRead: Return to Idaho by Gracy Olmstead
The Land My Ancestors Farmed
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The PloughRead: Writing in the Sand by Christia...
The Poetry of Doubt and Faith
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The PloughRead: Love in the Marketplace by Mary...
What’s for sale on online dating sites?
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The PloughRead: Ernest Becker and Our Fear of D...
In The Denial of Death, Becker says it’s in our nature to fear death – and to transcend that fear through faith.
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12: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Ques...
From parasitic wasps to dolphins being jerks to what Meltdown May reveals about the human condition and, of course, UFOs, Peter and Susannah address listener questions.
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