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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39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and t...
Susannah and Peter talk with Kelsey Osgood and King-Ho Leung about disciplines and the theology of vows.
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38: Christian Internationalism with John Milban...
Peter and Susannah speak with John Milbank and Tom and Sue Quinta, a Bruderhof couple, about the highest commitments.
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37: Vows, Liberty, and Victor Hugo
Peter and Susannah speak about Peter’s editorial letter, “Word Is Bond,” and with Caitrin Keiper about vows in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
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The PloughRead: Bring Back Hippocrates by Lydia...
The Hippocratic Oath has largely disappeared from modern medicine. What have we lost?
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The PloughRead: Word Is Bond by Peter Mommsen
In a culture addicted to endless choice, vows offer a higher freedom.
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The PloughRead: Tradition and Disruption by Dav...
Apocalypse, not dogma, is Christianity’s grounds for hope.
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The PloughRead: The Spiritual Roots of Climate ...
The answer to ecological challenges is not more technocracy, but conversion.
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The PloughRead: The Other Side of Revelation by...
John’s Apocalypse can seem terrifying. But that’s not how the story ends.
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The PloughRead: The Apocalyptic Visions of Wass...
As the world careened toward the Great War, a Russian artist pioneered a path out of the material to the spiritual.
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The PloughRead: Jesus and the Future of the Ear...
To the first Christians, the age to come was anything but otherworldly.
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After Liberalism – What?
A PloughCast/Wisdom of Crowds Joint Episode
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The PloughRead: Everything Will Not Be OK by Br...
You can’t protect your children from tragedy.
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The PloughRead: Syria’s Seed Planters by Mindy ...
The war with ISIS spawned a huge wave of refugees. But not everyone left Syria’s Khabur River valley.
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The PloughRead: The New Malthusians by Lyman Stone
Population pessimists claim that having children threatens the environment. They are wrong.
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The PloughRead: The Sermon of the Wolf by Elean...
The Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chaos. One bishop held a kingdom together.
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PloughCast Bonus Episode: An Interview with Joh...
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The PloughRead: Radical Hope by Peter J. Leithart
When worlds die, we need something sturdier than the myth of technological and social progress.
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The PloughRead: Hoping for Doomsday by Peter Mo...
The times are troubled. That’s why we need the promise of apocalypse.
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36: Technology and Listener Questions
Peter and Susannah speak with L. M. Sacasas about technology, and then answer listener questions.
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35: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons
Peter and Susannah talk with Christopher Tollefsen and Samuel Moyn about war, peace, and nukes.
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34: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation
Peter and Susannah speak with Kim Comer and Anika Prather about reconciliation and grief.
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33: The Case for More Babies
Peter and Susannah talk with Lyman Stone about falling birthrates.
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32: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics
Peter and Susannah talk with Eleanor Parker and Owen Cyclops about Archbishop Wulfstan and American Apocalypse.
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31: Hope in Wartime
Susannah and Peter talk apocalypse, then speak with Ivan Rusyn, ministering in Kyiv and Bucha, Ukraine.
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The PloughRead: In the Aztec Flower Paradise by...
For the ancient Nahua poets, the way to the holy runs through beauty.
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