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: Impractical Christianity by Cla...
Christianity is not a system you work – it is a Person who works you. You don’t get it; he gets you.
5 min
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The PloughRead: Just Your Handyman by Kurt Arms...
Some people build skyscrapers. I address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.
20 min
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74: Friends Don’t Let Politics End Friendships
Matthew Sitman and Sohrab Ahmari discuss friendship across political divides.
50 min
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The PloughRead: Zero Episcopalians by Benjamin ...
A young minister in a declining church looks for reasons to hope.
21 min
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The PloughRead: Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
In this story set in 1990s Armenia, survivors of war find a reason to go on living.
21 min
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The PloughRead: In Praise of Repair Culture by ...
Modern life depends on the habit of discarding things. What if we fixed them instead?
17 min
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The PloughRead: Demining the Sahara y Maria Nov...
Meet the Saharawi women replacing landmines with trees.
5 min
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The PloughRead: Heaven Meets Earth by Rowan Wil...
In the birth of Christ, God comes to restore and set free every person and all creation.
10 min
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The PloughRead: Students Brave the Heat by Leah...
Conflict can be fruitful when students don’t just debate, but listen to one another.
20 min
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The PloughRead: Walls behind Bars by Antoine E....
Two friends risk defying a racist prison culture.
17 min
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The PloughRead: The Witching Hour by Kathleen A...
We start the day intentionally and prayerfully, but all bets are off after five o’clock p.m.
11 min
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The PloughRead: My Mind, My Enemy by Sarah Clar...
When mental illness struck, my mind became my enemy. Would I battle it, or learn to love it?
13 min
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73: Achieving Disagreement and Other Tips for P...
Susannah Black Roberts speaks with Stephanie Summers about how political opponents can disagree well.
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The PloughRead: Just Doing What Christians Do b...
Forgiving beheaders, praying for enemies – it’s a daily reality for Coptic Christians.
13 min
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The PloughRead: Macedonia Morning by Dana Wiser
A decade before the protest movements of the sixties, Staughton Lynd and other visionaries were laying a foundation in the hills of Georgia.
19 min
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72: Tyranny, Inc.
The hosts speak with Sohrab Ahmari about how private power crushed American liberty.
64 min
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The PloughRead: Hating Sinners by Mary Townsend
Love the sinner, hate the sin? The trouble is, that’s not how hatred works.
24 min
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The PloughRead: A Russian Christian Speaks Out ...
A Baptist lawyer says no to war, and pays the price.
12 min
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71: On Giving Up All One’s Money
Susannah speaks with Clare Stober and Marianne Wright about living without money.
53 min
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The PloughRead: Foolhardy Wisdom by Benjamin Cr...
Can we afford to love our enemies in an unforgiving society?
27 min
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The PloughRead: Tough Love on the Mount by Timo...
Who were those enemies Jesus expected his oppressed listeners to love?
12 min
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70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consume...
Peter and Susannah talk with Dr. William T. Cavanaugh about his book Being Consumed.
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The PloughRead: Pay As You Can by Robert Lockridge
At a café where we grow the food and don’t name a price, we’re still learning new mindsets.
7 min
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The PloughRead: The Effective Samaritan, A Para...
A Tradcath, an exvangelical influencer, a mainliner, and a conservative megachurch pastor star in this retelling of Luke 10:30–37.
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69: Creating Our Identities
Tara Isabella Burton comes on the pod to ask, How did we become a world of self-makers?
46 min