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: Leper Colony Sketches by Maria ...
A young woman finds pain and friendship in the enforced community of outcasts at a Paraguayan leper colony.
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The PloughRead: The Library at Home by Zito Madu
My parents insisted on reserving an entire room in our small house for books. Reading expanded my world and shaped my future.
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68: The State of the Left
Leah and Susannah grill Fredrik deBoer on the state of the left and his book The Cult of Smart.
66 min
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The PloughRead: On Owning Twenty-Two Cars by Ma...
What is it like to live in a community where you possess nothing but share everything?
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The PloughRead: Saving the Commons by Jack Bell
As the Industrial Revolution took off in Britain, William Cobbett rose in defense of the cottage economy.
24 min
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PloughCast Bonus Episode: Is Barbie a confused ...
A PloughCast Bonus Episode
54 min
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The PloughRead: Selling Friends by Clare Coffey
In multilevel marketing, friendship is not the means to the sell – it is the thing being sold.
17 min
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67: David Bentley Hart and the Worship of Mammon
The PloughCast team talks with a philosopher and cultural commentator about money.
46 min
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The PloughRead: History Arrives on the Island b...
The first chapter of Eugene Vodolazkin’s new novel, A History of the Island, the chronicle of an island from medieval to modern times.
19 min
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66: The Technology of Demons
The PloughCast team talks with a former Wiccan priest and recent Christian convert about artificial intelligence and demons.
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The PloughRead: The Religion of Mammon by Eberh...
Money and God are enemies. We must choose one or the other.
18 min
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65: Buying and Selling Friends
Clare Coffey and Dan Walden discuss influencer culture, MLMs, and the monetization of friendship.
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The PloughRead: Princess of the Vatican by Shar...
What happens when a Roman palazzo becomes a homeless shelter?
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64: Mary of Bethany and the Virtue of Magnificence
Alastair Roberts discusses Mary of Bethany’s magnificent generosity.
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The PloughRead: Hudson Taylor by Maureen Swinge...
“When I am a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.”
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63: Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant o...
The Good Samaritan is an effective altruist in a retelling of Jesus' parable.
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The PloughRead: The Other Side of the Needle’s ...
What is money for? The history of Christian radicalism suggests one surprising answer.
36 min
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The PloughRead: In Praise of Costly Magnificen...
Mary of Bethany shows the beauty of extravagance.
24 min
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62: Is Money Power?
Eugene McCarraher and Peter Mommsen speak about why modern capitalism is anything but secular.
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The PloughRead: Two Thousand Years of Christian...
A new faith proclaimed one man's agonizing death as history's turning point — and utterly changed the meaning of suffering.
52 min
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61: A Tale of Camels and Needles
Why an issue on money? What is money for? Peter and Susannah discuss.
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An interview with Eugene McCarraher
Modern capitalism claims to be secular. It’s anything but.
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The PloughRead: The Unutterable Silence of God ...
After my father died, I thought I’d escaped the pain through nihilism. In that emptiness, God found me.
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60: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction
Marianne Wright discusses C.S. Lewis’ prescient science fiction novel.
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The PloughRead: Letters from a Vanishing Friend...
What’s it like to succumb to Alzheimer’s? A woman with dementia befriended me, her teenage neighbor.
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