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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The PloughRead: The Bible’s Story of Freedom by...
Scripture tells an unfinished history of liberation.
24 min
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The PloughRead: Form and Freedom by Joy Marie C...
A visual artist, an architect, and a poet celebrate the freedom of coloring within the lines.
16 min
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The PloughRead: Taking Lifelong Vows by Dori Moody
Poverty, chastity, and obedience bring a different kind of freedom.
15 min
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The PloughRead: The Body She Had by Rosemarie G...
If only her parents had been spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability.
23 min
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The PloughRead: Recovering from Heroin and Fict...
I sought freedom in drugs and novels. They couldn’t save me.
30 min
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The PloughRead: Become Slaves to One Another by...
Paul’s letters probe the paradox of freedom through love.
24 min
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The PloughRead: The Workers and the Church by S...
What happened to the Christian tradition of supporting workers’ rights?
42 min
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The PloughRead: A Lion in Phnom Penh by J. Dani...
An insider reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia’s aid industry.
46 min
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The PloughRead: The Autonomy Trap by James R. Wood
Is commitment just for suckers? A conversion story.
21 min
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The PloughRead: In Defiance of All Powers by Pe...
What’s the point of freedom?
23 min
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The PloughRead: Tech Cities of the Bible by Ala...
Our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.
23 min
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The PloughRead: Will There Be an AI Apocalypse?...
Marshall McLuhan and Romano Guardini say it’s already here.
26 min
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The PloughRead: Toward a Gift Economy by Simon ...
Some goods and services have value beyond their market price.
17 min
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The PloughRead: Computers Can’t Do Math by Davi...
The human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.
34 min
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The PloughRead: Give Me a Place by Brian Miller
An East Tennessee farmer praises a simple piece of technology.
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The PloughRead: The Artificial Pancreas by Pete...
How can we live well with technology?
26 min
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The PloughRead: ChatGPT Goes to Church by Arlie...
Should large language models write sermons and prayers?
25 min
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The PloughRead: Taming Tech in Community by And...
How the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.
16 min
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The PloughRead: Send Us Your Surplus by Matthew...
South Sudan’s kids thank you for that shipment of hip-joint ball bearings.
15 min
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The PloughRead: From Scrolls to Scrolling in Sy...
The way we read scripture has changed. Or has it?
20 min
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The PloughRead: The Tech of Prison Parenting by...
Even a little technology can make a big difference.
25 min
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82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District
Bestselling authors James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle – and a family – in the Lake District.
60 min
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The PloughRead: Why I Hunt by Tim Maendel
In the woods, being a predator connects me to our species’ natural history.
14 min
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The PloughRead: Breakwater by Rhys Laverty
In the Channel Islands, a crumbling jetty protects a way of life.
18 min
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The PloughRead: Lambing Season by Norann Voll
I learned some of life’s most important lessons from my father while caring for sheep.
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