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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11: Gracy Olmstead on her book Uprooted and Nor...
What does it mean for a place to be yours?
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10: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhum...
When dealing with the land and with our own bodies, how can we respect nature rather than seek to dominate it?
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9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meanin...
How can we receive the wisdom of tradition in a way that brings meaning to life in the face of death?
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8: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment
What do our bodies have to tell us, and what happens when dating leaves the bodily realm?
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7: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs
Can nature teach us how to live – or does it simply want to kill us? And what about UFOs? A conversation with Ross Douthat.
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The PloughRead: Let the Body Testify by Leah Li...
Whose Bodies Matter?
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The PloughRead: The Minimalist by Springs Toledo
A Boxing Story
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The PloughRead: Call to Prayer, Call to Bread b...
What the Five Pillars of Islam Have Taught Me
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The PloughRead: Beyond Pacifism by Eberhard Arnold
Seven Theses on Christian Nonviolence
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The PloughRead: With Love We Shall Force Our Br...
Prophetic Peacemaking with James Baldwin
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The PloughRead: The Risk of Gentleness by Gracy...
Welcoming the Baby I Did Not Want
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The PloughRead: Behind the Black Umbrellas by P...
Debating Violence with Portland’s Antifa and the Proud Boys
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6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Qu...
Peter and Susannah tackle listener questions, ranging from whether the state can use lethal violence to violence in the Old Testament – and beyond!
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5: From Zurich to Somaliland
Rachel Pieh Jones has spent the last eighteen years living among Somali Muslims – and her Muslim friends have informed her Christian faith; Felix Manz gave his life for his own radical and nonviolent faith in 16th Century Switzerland.
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4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape
Gracy Olmstead reflects on radical gentleness and finding herself pregnant at Easter, 2020; Zito Madu talks about rap, poverty, and Oedipus.
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3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat
Scott Beauchamp and Scott Button write on commitment – to the military, to conscientious objection – and its consequences; Rhina Espaillat joins your podcasters to talk about poetry.
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2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa
How did Bruderhof founder Eberhard Arnold’s militant nonviolence manifest, and subvert, the spirit of his age? And what really happened in Portland this summer?
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1: Political Violence and the White Rose
Is political violence ever justified? And what might the White Rose – the 1943 student antifascist group – have to teach today’s Antifa, and their detractors?
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The PloughRead: Holding Our Own by Shadi Hamid
Is the future of Islam in the West communal?
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The PloughRead: The Corporate Parent by Maria H...
The collapse of corporate social responsibility at Unilever
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The PloughRead: The Gift of Death by Leslie Verner
Learning to live in kairos time
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The PloughRead: When Dvořák Went to Iowa to Mee...
Music that gives voice to the longing for home
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The PloughRead: Not Just Nuclear by Edwidge Dan...
Families Are Elders Long Buried and Generations Yet Unborn
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The PloughRead: The Beautiful Institution by Jo...
The Story of Marriage in Seven Key Moments
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The PloughRead: The Case for One More Child by ...
Why Large Families Will Save Humanity
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