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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46: Spiritual Realism; Jesus and John Wayne
The hosts talk with Tara Isabella Burton, Tim Shriver, Hannah Long, and Boze Herrington.
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45: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance
Phil Christman and Joey Keegin on effective altruism and Dhananjay Jagannathan on scholarly inheritances
74 min
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44: Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts: Freedom,...
Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts delve into the meaning of our obligations to past and future generations and why the Bible loves genealogy.
77 min
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43: The Work of Generations, and the Wisdom of ...
Peter and Susannah talk Generations and speak with Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm on one thousand years in a place.
59 min
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The PloughRead: Is There a Right to Have Childr...
The fertility industry pushes IVF as an answer to the pain of childlessness. But at what cost?
30 min
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The PloughRead: Singing the Law by J. L. Wall
Chanting the Torah joins past generations to generations yet unborn.
18 min
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The PloughRead: My Father Left Me Paperclip by ...
What kind of inheritance can an illegitimate son expect?
11 min
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The PloughRead: The Sins of the Fathers by Helm...
Our ancestors’ guilt can affect the present generation. The Hebrew prophets show a way out.
28 min
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The PloughRead: The Stranger in My House by Wen...
We adopted children with trauma in their past. It didn’t go as expected.
24 min
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The PloughRead: Gazapillo by Óscar Esquivias
After the young folk moved away, the Three Kings stopped visiting the village. Or did they?
39 min
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The PloughRead: Decoding the Bible’s Begats by ...
We moderns tend to think genealogy shouldn’t matter. Scripture disagrees.
15 min
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The PloughRead: Yearning for Roots by Peter Mom...
We’re born with a hunger for connection with our ancestors – both biological and spiritual.
18 min
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The PloughRead: The Day No One Would Say the Na...
Some say relativism is on its way out on college campuses, giving way to partisan passions. This ethics professor finds it alive and well.
32 min
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The PloughRead: No Promises by Eve Tushnet
Does Alcoholics Anonymous work?
19 min
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The PloughRead: Vows in Brief by Phil Christman
How three monogamous animal couples got from courtship to “I do.”
9 min
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The PloughRead: The Adventure of Obedience by N...
It’s not popular. But obedience can transplant us to places we never expected.
16 min
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The PloughRead: Demystifying Chastity by Sr. Ca...
It’s time to rediscover chastity as a virtue for everyone.
19 min
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The PloughRead: Why I Chose Poverty by Andreas ...
Those who, like Francis of Assisi, reject wealth and possessions find the whole world is theirs.
22 min
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The PloughRead: A Broken but Faithful Marriage ...
My grandparents separated for decades. But they never broke faith with their bond.
35 min
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The PloughRead: A Vow Will Keep You by Randall ...
For a Bruderhof pastor, a lifelong vow makes mutual faithfulness possible.
11 min
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The PloughRead: Victor Hugo’s Masterpiece of Im...
In Les Misérables, competing vows reveal the paradox of grace.
20 min
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The PloughRead: The Dance of Devotion by Kelsey...
Lifestyle discipline in achievers is admired. Religious discipline in believers, not so much.
23 min
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42: Zohar Atkins on Vows in Scripture and the E...
Susannah talks with Zohar Atkins about philosophy of vows, then Susannah and Pete take listener questions.
65 min
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41: The World After Roe
Peter and Susannah speak with Professor Robert P. George about the future of the pro-life movement.
52 min
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40: Hyperpartisanship and Hippocrates
Peter and Susannah speak with Justin Giboney and Lydia S. Dugdale about polarization and the Hippocratic oath.
66 min