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 Sadness of the Creatures by...
Should humans live by the laws of nature?
28 min
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The PloughRead: Are You a Tree? by Joy Clarkson
Or are you a potted plant?
15 min
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The PloughRead: Meeting the Wolf by Greta Gaffin
Should we go back to nature? Saint Anthony and Saint Francis show how to make peace with it instead.
20 min
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The PloughRead: The Leper of Abercuawg by David...
In a thousand-year-old Welsh poem, an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.
26 min
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81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?
Joy Marie Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor.
36 min
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The PloughRead: The Plants Can Talk by William ...
The flowers have a language. Are we listening?
24 min
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The PloughRead: Saving the Soil, Saving the Far...
Regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.
19 min
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The PloughRead: Dandelions: An Apology by Clare...
Why sweat lawn care when you could have a meadow, green and gold, by working a little less?
17 min
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80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and technology. Susannah chimes in.
60 min
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The PloughRead: Saskatchewan, Promised Land by ...
A newcomer to the Canadian prairie searches for the Old Testament promise.
23 min
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The PloughRead: The Wonder of Moths by Caroline...
Gorgeous and fragile, moths showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.
17 min
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79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection ...
Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament.
61 min
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The PloughRead: Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just...
In our hunger for fellowship, we have settled for cheap substitutes. Nowhere in the New Testament does “fellowship” imply pleasant social contacts.
13 min
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78: Worshiping Nature
Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not necessarily a guide to what is good.
52 min
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The PloughRead: Three Pillars of Education by H...
In the Bruderhof, as in any society, we see how children flourish when family, school, and community align.
11 min
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77: The New Eugenics
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin discuss euthanasia and eugenics.
79 min
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The PloughRead: The Joy of Mending Jeans by Lea...
A mom makes mended clothes beautiful.
11 min
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The PloughRead: What Is Time For? by Zena Hitz
Everyone is too busy. How would we spend our time if we weren’t?
30 min
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The PloughRead: The Home You Carry with You by ...
A church that prays in the language of Jesus, scattered by war, lives on in many new places.
19 min
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76: Restoring a Farm
Adam Nicolson discusses repairing his farm, sailing the Aegean, and Homer.
46 min
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The PloughRead: Architecture for Humans by Norm...
Can people live in hope if their homes and places of work do not nurture and celebrate life?
24 min
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The PloughRead: To Mend a Farm by Adam Nicolson
A restored landscape will be more than it was before, bearing the marks of damage and repair.
15 min
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The PloughRead: Ifs Eternally by Christian Wiman
The “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.
27 min
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75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?
Zohar Atkins discusses the real meaning of tikkun olam.
34 min
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The PloughRead: Not Everything Can Be Fixed by ...
Perhaps some things can’t be repaired, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
14 min