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: Music and Morals by Dhananjay J...
The sheer vitality of music spells danger. Or so it often seems.
18 min
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The PloughRead: Go Tell It On the Mountain by S...
Black spirituals aren’t just for Black churches. They should be sung by everyone.
12 min
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The PloughRead: The Death and Life of Christian...
The Christian underground came undone as it rocketed to relevance.
17 min
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The PloughRead: The Strange Love of a Strange G...
When my father got cancer, we prayed desperately. No answer came. Or did it?
25 min
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The PloughRead: Is Congregational Singing Dead?...
It’s time to make church music weird again.
11 min
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The PloughRead: Reading the Comments by Phil Ch...
Fans of 1980s post-punk and new wave find community and catharsis online.
21 min
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The PloughRead: Why We Make Music by Peter Mommsen
A song has the power to shape the soul.
20 min
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The PloughRead: Dolly Parton Is Magnificent by ...
The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?
28 min
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The PloughRead: In Search of Eternity by Eugene...
Why learn to play music if we’re all going to die?
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The PloughRead: Doing Bach Badly by Maureen Swi...
15 min
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30: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A
Zena Hitz discusses liberal arts and the Catherine Project, then Peter and Susannah answer your questions.
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29: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Ph...
Joey Keegin and Phil Christman on nostalgia and music, and Joy Clarkson on her book Aggressively Happy.
69 min
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28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach...
We talk with Rowan Williams about Easter, suffering, and his new book Shakeshafte; then with Maureen Swinger on singing Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion.
60 min
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27: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres
Peter and Susannah speak with Esther Maria Magnis about atheism, faith, and her new Plough title, With or Without Me; then they interview Dante’s descendant, Sperello di Serego Alighieri, about his ancestor’s cosmology.
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26: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirit...
Peter and Susannah speak with Brittany Petruzzi & Paul Buckley about psalm chanting, and Stephen Newby about why all churches should sing spirituals.
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The PloughRead: The Lion’s Mouth by Edwidge Dan...
Mass shootings have made violent death seem normal. It’s not.
18 min
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25: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Ma...
Peter and Susannah discuss the Aristotelian magnificence of Dolly Parton with Mary Townsend.
66 min
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The PloughRead: How Funerals Differ by Eugene V...
Burying My Father
22 min
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The PloughRead: Stranger in a Strange Land by K...
Even in Brooklyn, our Orthodox Jewish family feels alien.
26 min
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The PloughRead: The Art of Disability Parenting...
What’s it like to raise a child with a physical disability? I asked six mothers around the world.
25 min
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The PloughRead: The Hidden Costs of Prenatal Sc...
Testing for fetal abnormalities is not a neutral practice. It sends a message.
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The PloughRead: Mary’s Song by Victoria Reynold...
My journey with disability taught me to trust a God who raises up the weak and brings down the mighty.
22 min
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The PloughRead: The Baby We Kept by Heonju Lee
Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another child’s life.
17 min
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24: Takeaways: Why Disability is about Being Human
Peter and Susannah take listener questions about the social model of disability, how to talk about human value with non-Christians, and urbanism.
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23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the...
Kelsey Osgood grapples with raising her family in a Modern Orthodox Jewish community; Leah Libresco Sargeant looks at the good of dependence.
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