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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59: Churches against the law
Hannah Nation tells the story of Wang Yi’s imprisonment and the Chinese house church movement.
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The PloughRead: The Mind in Pain by James Mumford
When depression takes hold, why does even God seem to fall silent?
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58: James Mumford on God, Politics, Depression,...
A philosopher examines the theological implications of mental illness and its treatment.
38 min
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The PloughRead: Saving Friends: What I’ve Learn...
A difficult patient teaches her doctor a better approach to medicine.
19 min
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57: A Canadian Priest on Medical Assistance in ...
Benjamin Crosby discusses the failure of mainline churches to speak clearly on Canada's euthanasia regime.
51 min
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Baptism Means Leaving Home to Find It by Julian...
How do you make an inherited tradition your own? A young Hutterite reckons with the legacy of his forebears.
22 min
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56: Felix Manz and the Birth of Anabaptism
Jason Landsel, author of a new graphic novel, talks about the Radical Reformation and its legacy.
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The PloughRead: Where Are the Churches in Cana...
Since MAID was legalized, euthanasia is Canada’s sixth leading cause of death. Why are so many Christians silent?
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55: L. M. Sacasas on Why We Are Not AIs
A philosopher reflects on human uniqueness.
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The PloughRead: The Speaking Tree by Eleanor P...
In an Anglo-Saxon poem, a tree becomes the meeting place of horror and joy.
20 min
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54: Eleanor Parker on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
An Oxford medievalist discusses the Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood.
36 min
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The PloughRead: God’s Purpose in Your Pain by R...
What good could suffering possibly serve? A pastor reflects on what he has learned from losing a son to suicide.
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53: How to Read the Four Passion Stories
It’s the most famous story in history. Alastair Roberts helps us read the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ death with fresh eyes.
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The PloughRead: The Dust on All the Faces by Na...
In south Madagascar, farming families battle to survive a lethal drought caused by climate change.
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52: Oberammergau and the Art of the Passion
Joy Clarkson and William P. Hyland discuss why the Oberammergau Passion Play disappoints and how artists have imagined Jesus’ crucifixion.
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The PloughRead: In Search of Solace by Randall ...
A pastor who lost a son to cancer probes the problem of pain.
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51: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain
How did the crucifixion of Jesus change how humanity thinks about suffering?
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The PloughRead: Fear of a Human Planet by Louis...
Will having children hasten a climate apocalypse? Or will humanity end because we stop having children?
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50: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
The great Christian apologist is an imaginary guest as the hosts consider the problem of suffering.
55 min
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The PloughRead: Somewhere in Chessington by Rhy...
My hometown debunks the idea that family-friendly neighborhoods are a thing of the past.
22 min
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49: Jenn Frey on Liberal Arts
Jenn Frey discusses the value of a liberal arts education.
58 min
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The PloughRead: Daughter of Forgottonia by Liz ...
In a left-behind corner of Illinois, Edna Eberlin made her farm a home for a sprawling multigenerational family. It was never easy.
25 min
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The PloughRead: Uncle Albert by Springs Toledo
An Irish-Catholic family’s story of crime and forgiveness, finally told.
25 min
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48: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry
A reporter called the official MAID hotline. It took him just minutes to schedule his own medically assisted death.
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47: Technologizing Babies, Forging Nations
In this episode, the hosts and guests discuss ethnonationalism, generations in a monastery, and the ethics of IVF.
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