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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.

Episode Date
Following the Clues of the Universe by Alister McGrath
May 21, 2025
Passing On the Farm to My Daughter by James Rebanks
May 14, 2025
Warehouse Workers of Paris Find Their Voice by Benoît Gautier
May 07, 2025
Stanley Hauerwas’s Provocations by Tish Harrison Warren
Apr 30, 2025
Building Solidarity in Europe’s Gig Economy by Ben Wray
Apr 23, 2025
In the Holy Land, Seeking the Solace of the Cross by Stephanie Saldaña
Apr 16, 2025
The Quest to Emancipate Labor by Peter Mommsen
Apr 09, 2025
Deerassic Park by Tim Maendel
Apr 02, 2025
Sister Penelope in Expectation by Grace Hamman
Mar 26, 2025
Should I Read Scary Fairy Tales to My Child? by Stephanie Ebert
Mar 19, 2025
Teaching the One Percent by Dhananjay Jagannathan
Mar 12, 2025
Jesus Changes Everything: An Afternoon with Stanley Hauerwas
Mar 07, 2025
Tell an Old Story for Modern Times by Lisabeth Button
Mar 05, 2025
Why We’re Failing to Pass on Christianity by Benjamin Crosby
Feb 26, 2025
The School that Escaped to the Alps by Marianne Wright
Feb 19, 2025
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? by Phil Christman
Feb 12, 2025
Why I Became a Firefighter by Brit Frazier
Feb 05, 2025
Schools for Philosopher-Carpenters by Alex Sosler
Jan 29, 2025
Educating for Freedom by Peter Mommsen
Jan 22, 2025
The PloughRead: An Exodus From China by Pan Yongguang
Jan 15, 2025
The PloughRead: Paraguayans Don’t Read by Santiago Ramos
Jan 08, 2025
The PloughRead: The Busted Bean by Maureen Swinger
Jan 01, 2025
The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
Dec 25, 2024
The PloughRead: Encounters at the Southern Border by Robert Donnelly
Dec 18, 2024
The PloughRead: Jakob Hutter, Radical Reformer by Emmy Barth Maendel
Dec 11, 2024
The PloughRead: The Bible’s Story of Freedom by Heinrich Arnold
Dec 04, 2024
The PloughRead: Form and Freedom by Joy Marie Clarkson
Nov 27, 2024
The PloughRead: Taking Lifelong Vows by Dori Moody
Nov 20, 2024
The PloughRead: The Body She Had by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Nov 13, 2024
The PloughRead: Recovering from Heroin and Fiction by Jordan Castro
Nov 06, 2024
The PloughRead: Become Slaves to One Another by John M. G. Barclay
Oct 30, 2024
The PloughRead: The Workers and the Church by Sohrab Ahmari
Oct 23, 2024
The PloughRead: A Lion in Phnom Penh by J. Daniel Sims
Oct 16, 2024
The PloughRead: The Autonomy Trap by James R. Wood
Oct 09, 2024
The PloughRead: In Defiance of All Powers by Peter Mommsen
Oct 02, 2024
The PloughRead: Tech Cities of the Bible by Alastair Roberts
Aug 14, 2024
The PloughRead: Will There Be an AI Apocalypse? by Peter Berkman
Aug 07, 2024
The PloughRead: Toward a Gift Economy by Simon Oliver
Jul 31, 2024
The PloughRead: Computers Can’t Do Math by David Schaengold
Jul 24, 2024
The PloughRead: Give Me a Place by Brian Miller
Jul 17, 2024
The PloughRead: The Artificial Pancreas by Peter Mommsen
Jul 10, 2024
The PloughRead: ChatGPT Goes to Church by Arlie Coles
Jul 03, 2024
The PloughRead: Taming Tech in Community by Andrew Zimmerman
Jun 26, 2024
The PloughRead: Send Us Your Surplus by Matthew Loftus
Jun 19, 2024
The PloughRead: From Scrolls to Scrolling in Synagogue by J. L. Wall
Jun 12, 2024
The PloughRead: The Tech of Prison Parenting by Robert Lee Williams
Jun 05, 2024
82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District
May 22, 2024
The PloughRead: Why I Hunt by Tim Maendel
May 17, 2024
The PloughRead: Breakwater by Rhys Laverty
May 10, 2024
The PloughRead: Lambing Season by Norann Voll
May 08, 2024
The PloughRead: The Sadness of the Creatures by Peter Mommsen
May 03, 2024
The PloughRead: Are You a Tree? by Joy Clarkson
Apr 26, 2024
The PloughRead: Meeting the Wolf by Greta Gaffin
Apr 24, 2024
The PloughRead: The Leper of Abercuawg by David McBride
Apr 19, 2024
81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?
Apr 17, 2024
The PloughRead: The Plants Can Talk by William Thomas Okie
Apr 12, 2024
The PloughRead: Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm by Colin Boller
Apr 10, 2024
The PloughRead: Dandelions: An Apology by Clare Coffey
Apr 05, 2024
80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
Apr 03, 2024
The PloughRead: Saskatchewan, Promised Land by Daniel J. D. Stulac
Mar 27, 2024
The PloughRead: The Wonder of Moths by Caroline Moore
Mar 22, 2024
79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament
Mar 20, 2024
The PloughRead: Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just Being Nice by Clarence Jordan
Mar 15, 2024
78: Worshiping Nature
Mar 06, 2024
The PloughRead: Three Pillars of Education by Heinrich Arnold
Feb 23, 2024
77: The New Eugenics
Feb 21, 2024
The PloughRead: The Joy of Mending Jeans by Leah Libresco Sargeant
Feb 16, 2024
The PloughRead: What Is Time For? by Zena Hitz
Feb 14, 2024
The PloughRead: The Home You Carry with You by Stephanie Saldaña
Feb 09, 2024
76: Restoring a Farm
Feb 07, 2024
The PloughRead: Architecture for Humans by Norman Wirzba
Feb 02, 2024
The PloughRead: To Mend a Farm by Adam Nicolson
Jan 31, 2024
The PloughRead: Ifs Eternally by Christian Wiman
Jan 26, 2024
75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?
Jan 24, 2024
The PloughRead: Not Everything Can Be Fixed by Carlo Gébler
Jan 19, 2024
The PloughRead: Impractical Christianity by Clarence Jordan
Jan 17, 2024
The PloughRead: Just Your Handyman by Kurt Armstrong
Jan 12, 2024
74: Friends Don’t Let Politics End Friendships
Jan 10, 2024
The PloughRead: Zero Episcopalians by Benjamin Crosby
Jan 05, 2024
The PloughRead: Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
Jan 03, 2024
The PloughRead: In Praise of Repair Culture by Peter Mommsen
Dec 29, 2023
The PloughRead: Demining the Sahara y Maria Novella De Luca, Alice Pistolesi and Monica Pelliccia
Dec 27, 2023
The PloughRead: Heaven Meets Earth by Rowan Williams
Dec 22, 2023
The PloughRead: Students Brave the Heat by Leah Libresco Sargeant
Dec 13, 2023
The PloughRead: Walls behind Bars by Antoine E. Davis and Aaron Olson
Dec 08, 2023
The PloughRead: The Witching Hour by Kathleen A. Mulhern
Nov 29, 2023
The PloughRead: My Mind, My Enemy by Sarah Clarkson
Nov 24, 2023
73: Achieving Disagreement and Other Tips for Political Conversation
Nov 22, 2023
The PloughRead: Just Doing What Christians Do by Archbishop Angaelos
Nov 15, 2023
The PloughRead: Macedonia Morning by Dana Wiser
Nov 10, 2023
72: Tyranny, Inc.
Nov 08, 2023
The PloughRead: Hating Sinners by Mary Townsend
Nov 01, 2023
The PloughRead: A Russian Christian Speaks Out by Rachel Cañon Naffziger
Oct 27, 2023
71: On Giving Up All One’s Money
Oct 25, 2023
The PloughRead: Foolhardy Wisdom by Benjamin Crosby
Oct 18, 2023
The PloughRead: Tough Love on the Mount by Timothy J. Keiderling
Oct 13, 2023
70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consumer Economy?
Oct 11, 2023
The PloughRead: Pay As You Can by Robert Lockridge
Oct 04, 2023
The PloughRead: The Effective Samaritan, A Parable by Phil Christman
Sep 29, 2023
69: Creating Our Identities
Sep 26, 2023
The PloughRead: Leper Colony Sketches by Maria Weiss and Maureen Burn
Sep 20, 2023
The PloughRead: The Library at Home by Zito Madu
Sep 15, 2023
68: The State of the Left
Sep 13, 2023
The PloughRead: On Owning Twenty-Two Cars by Maureen Swinger
Sep 06, 2023
The PloughRead: Saving the Commons by Jack Bell
Sep 01, 2023
PloughCast Bonus Episode: Is Barbie a confused mess or deeply insightful?
Aug 30, 2023
The PloughRead: Selling Friends by Clare Coffey
Aug 23, 2023
67: David Bentley Hart and the Worship of Mammon
Aug 16, 2023
The PloughRead: History Arrives on the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa C. Hayden
Aug 09, 2023
66: The Technology of Demons
Aug 02, 2023
The PloughRead: The Religion of Mammon by Eberhard Arnold
Jul 26, 2023
65: Buying and Selling Friends
Jul 19, 2023
The PloughRead: Princess of the Vatican by Sharon Rose Christner
Jul 12, 2023
64: Mary of Bethany and the Virtue of Magnificence
Jul 05, 2023
The PloughRead: Hudson Taylor by Maureen Swinger and Susannah Black Roberts
Jun 28, 2023
63: Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant on Effective Altruism
Jun 21, 2023
The PloughRead: The Other Side of the Needle’s Eye by Peter Mommsen
Jun 14, 2023
The PloughRead: In Praise of Costly Magnificence by Alastair Roberts
Jun 09, 2023
62: Is Money Power?
Jun 07, 2023
The PloughRead: Two Thousand Years of Christian Strangeness by Tom Holland
Jun 02, 2023
61: A Tale of Camels and Needles
May 31, 2023
An interview with Eugene McCarraher
May 29, 2023
The PloughRead: The Unutterable Silence of God by Esther Maria Magnis
May 26, 2023
60: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction
May 24, 2023
The PloughRead: Letters from a Vanishing Friend by Lisabeth Button
May 19, 2023
59: Churches against the law
May 17, 2023
The PloughRead: The Mind in Pain by James Mumford
May 12, 2023
58: James Mumford on God, Politics, Depression, Therapy, and Philosophy
May 10, 2023
The PloughRead: Saving Friends: What I’ve Learned from Insufferable Patients by Brewer Eberly
May 05, 2023
57: A Canadian Priest on Medical Assistance in Dying
May 03, 2023
Baptism Means Leaving Home to Find It by Julian Waldner
Apr 28, 2023
56: Felix Manz and the Birth of Anabaptism
Apr 26, 2023
The PloughRead: Where Are the Churches in Canada’s Euthanasia Experiment? by Benjamin Crosby
Apr 21, 2023
55: L. M. Sacasas on Why We Are Not AIs
Apr 19, 2023
The PloughRead: The Speaking Tree by Eleanor Parker
Apr 14, 2023
54: Eleanor Parker on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
Apr 12, 2023
The PloughRead: God’s Purpose in Your Pain by Rick Warren
Apr 07, 2023
53: How to Read the Four Passion Stories
Apr 05, 2023
The PloughRead: The Dust on All the Faces by Navid Kermani
Mar 31, 2023
52: Oberammergau and the Art of the Passion
Mar 29, 2023
The PloughRead: In Search of Solace by Randall Gauger
Mar 24, 2023
51: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain
Mar 22, 2023
The PloughRead: Fear of a Human Planet by Louise Perry
Mar 17, 2023
50: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
Mar 15, 2023
The PloughRead: Somewhere in Chessington by Rhys Laverty
Mar 10, 2023
49: Jenn Frey on Liberal Arts
Mar 07, 2023
The PloughRead: Daughter of Forgottonia by Liz Schleicher
Mar 02, 2023
The PloughRead: Uncle Albert by Springs Toledo
Feb 28, 2023
48: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry
Feb 21, 2023
47: Technologizing Babies, Forging Nations
Feb 14, 2023
46: Spiritual Realism; Jesus and John Wayne
Feb 07, 2023
45: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance
Jan 31, 2023
44: Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts: Freedom, Belonging, and Begetting
Jan 24, 2023
43: The Work of Generations, and the Wisdom of a German Prince
Jan 17, 2023
The PloughRead: Is There a Right to Have Children? by Matthew Lee Anderson
Jan 10, 2023
The PloughRead: Singing the Law by J. L. Wall
Jan 07, 2023
The PloughRead: My Father Left Me Paperclip by Terence Sweeney
Jan 03, 2023
The PloughRead: The Sins of the Fathers by Helmuth Eiwen
Dec 31, 2022
The PloughRead: The Stranger in My House by Wendy Kiyomi
Dec 27, 2022
The PloughRead: Gazapillo by Óscar Esquivias
Dec 24, 2022
The PloughRead: Decoding the Bible’s Begats by Alastair Roberts
Dec 20, 2022
The PloughRead: Yearning for Roots by Peter Mommsen
Dec 13, 2022
The PloughRead: The Day No One Would Say the Nazis Were Bad by Mary Townsend
Dec 06, 2022
The PloughRead: No Promises by Eve Tushnet
Dec 03, 2022
The PloughRead: Vows in Brief by Phil Christman
Nov 29, 2022
The PloughRead: The Adventure of Obedience by Norann Voll
Nov 26, 2022
The PloughRead: Demystifying Chastity by Sr. Carino Hodder, OP
Nov 22, 2022
The PloughRead: Why I Chose Poverty by Andreas Knapp
Nov 19, 2022
The PloughRead: A Broken but Faithful Marriage by Dori Moody
Nov 15, 2022
The PloughRead: A Vow Will Keep You by Randall Gauger
Nov 12, 2022
The PloughRead: Victor Hugo’s Masterpiece of Impossibility by Caitrin Keiper
Nov 08, 2022
The PloughRead: The Dance of Devotion by Kelsey Osgood
Nov 05, 2022
42: Zohar Atkins on Vows in Scripture and the Existentialists, and Listener Questions
Nov 01, 2022
41: The World After Roe
Oct 25, 2022
40: Hyperpartisanship and Hippocrates
Oct 18, 2022
39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow
Oct 11, 2022
38: Christian Internationalism with John Milbank, and a Bruderhof Journey
Oct 04, 2022
37: Vows, Liberty, and Victor Hugo
Sep 27, 2022
The PloughRead: Bring Back Hippocrates by Lydia S. Dugdale
Sep 24, 2022
The PloughRead: Word Is Bond by Peter Mommsen
Sep 20, 2022
The PloughRead: Tradition and Disruption by David Bentley Hart
Sep 17, 2022
The PloughRead: The Spiritual Roots of Climate Crisis by Cardinal Peter Turkson
Sep 13, 2022
The PloughRead: The Other Side of Revelation by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
Sep 10, 2022
The PloughRead: The Apocalyptic Visions of Wassily Kandinsky by Shira Telushkin
Sep 06, 2022
The PloughRead: Jesus and the Future of the Earth by Eberhard Arnold
Sep 03, 2022
After Liberalism – What?
Sep 02, 2022
The PloughRead: Everything Will Not Be OK by Brandon McGinley
Aug 30, 2022
The PloughRead: Syria’s Seed Planters by Mindy Belz
Aug 27, 2022
The PloughRead: The New Malthusians by Lyman Stone
Aug 23, 2022
The PloughRead: The Sermon of the Wolf by Eleanor Parker
Aug 20, 2022
PloughCast Bonus Episode: An Interview with Johnny Cash
Aug 16, 2022
The PloughRead: Radical Hope by Peter J. Leithart
Aug 13, 2022
The PloughRead: Hoping for Doomsday by Peter Mommsen
Aug 09, 2022
36: Technology and Listener Questions
Aug 02, 2022
35: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons
Jul 26, 2022
34: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation
Jul 19, 2022
33: The Case for More Babies
Jul 12, 2022
32: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics
Jul 05, 2022
31: Hope in Wartime
Jun 28, 2022
The PloughRead: In the Aztec Flower Paradise by Joseph Julián González and Monique González
Jun 07, 2022
The PloughRead: Music and Morals by Dhananjay Jagannathan
Jun 04, 2022
The PloughRead: Go Tell It On the Mountain by Stephen Michael Newby
May 31, 2022
The PloughRead: The Death and Life of Christian Hardcore by Joseph M. Keegin
May 28, 2022
The PloughRead: The Strange Love of a Strange God by Esther Maria Magnis
May 24, 2022
The PloughRead: Is Congregational Singing Dead? by Benjamin Crosby
May 21, 2022
The PloughRead: Reading the Comments by Phil Christman
May 17, 2022
The PloughRead: Why We Make Music by Peter Mommsen
May 14, 2022
The PloughRead: Dolly Parton Is Magnificent by Mary Townsend
May 10, 2022
The PloughRead: In Search of Eternity by Eugene Vodolazkin
May 07, 2022
The PloughRead: Doing Bach Badly by Maureen Swinger
May 03, 2022
30: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A
Apr 26, 2022
29: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Philosophy, and Jane Austen
Apr 19, 2022
28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly
Apr 12, 2022
27: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres
Apr 05, 2022
The PloughRead: The Lion’s Mouth by Edwidge Danticat
Mar 29, 2022
26: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirituals
Mar 29, 2022
25: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Magnificent
Mar 23, 2022
The PloughRead: How Funerals Differ by Eugene Vodolazkin
Mar 22, 2022
The PloughRead: Stranger in a Strange Land by Kelsey Osgood
Mar 15, 2022
The PloughRead: The Art of Disability Parenting by Maureen Swinger
Mar 08, 2022
The PloughRead: The Hidden Costs of Prenatal Screening by Sarah C. Williams
Mar 01, 2022
The PloughRead: Mary’s Song by Victoria Reynolds Farmer
Feb 22, 2022
The PloughRead: The Baby We Kept by Heonju Lee
Feb 15, 2022
24: Takeaways: Why Disability is about Being Human
Feb 08, 2022
23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body
Feb 01, 2022
22: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome
Jan 25, 2022
21: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means to Be Human
Jan 18, 2022
20: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization
Jan 11, 2022
19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood
Jan 04, 2022
The PloughRead: The Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee
Dec 28, 2021
The PloughRead: The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlöf
Dec 21, 2021
The PloughRead: The Quest for Home by Santiago Ramos
Dec 07, 2021
The PloughRead: Three Kants and a Thousand Skulls by Simeon Wiehler
Nov 30, 2021
The PloughRead: In Search of Lost Fig Trees by Stephanie Saldaña
Nov 23, 2021
The PloughRead: The End of Rage by Ashley Lucas
Nov 16, 2021
The PloughRead: Home Is Not Just a Place by Edwidge Danticat
Nov 09, 2021
The PloughRead: Integrity and the Future of the Church by Russell Moore
Nov 02, 2021
18: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other Imponderables.
Oct 26, 2021
17: Christian Nationalism
Oct 19, 2021
16: The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism
Oct 12, 2021
15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Oct 05, 2021
14: Empire and its Discontents
Sep 28, 2021
13: One Cheer for the Nation-State
Sep 21, 2021
The PloughRead: Behold the Mandalorian by Josh Seligman
Aug 17, 2021
The PloughRead: More Fish Than Sauce by Iván Bernal Marín
Aug 10, 2021
The PloughRead: Return to Idaho by Gracy Olmstead
Aug 03, 2021
The PloughRead: Writing in the Sand by Christian Wiman
Jul 27, 2021
The PloughRead: Love in the Marketplace by Mary Harrington
Jul 20, 2021
The PloughRead: Ernest Becker and Our Fear of Death by Kelsey Osgood
Jul 13, 2021
12: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Questions
Jul 06, 2021
11: Gracy Olmstead on her book Uprooted and Norann Voll on putting down roots in Australia
Jun 29, 2021
10: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhumanist Medicine
Jun 22, 2021
9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition
Jun 16, 2021
8: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment
Jun 08, 2021
7: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs
Jun 01, 2021
The PloughRead: Let the Body Testify by Leah Libresco Sargeant
May 25, 2021
The PloughRead: The Minimalist by Springs Toledo
May 21, 2021
The PloughRead: Call to Prayer, Call to Bread by Rachel Pieh Jones
May 18, 2021
The PloughRead: Beyond Pacifism by Eberhard Arnold
May 18, 2021
The PloughRead: With Love We Shall Force Our Brothers by Anthony Barr
May 11, 2021
The PloughRead: The Risk of Gentleness by Gracy Olmstead
May 04, 2021
The PloughRead: Behind the Black Umbrellas by Patrick Tomassi
Apr 27, 2021
6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Questions
Apr 20, 2021
5: From Zurich to Somaliland
Apr 13, 2021
4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape
Apr 06, 2021
3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat
Mar 30, 2021
2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa
Mar 23, 2021
1: Political Violence and the White Rose
Mar 16, 2021
The PloughRead: Holding Our Own by Shadi Hamid
Feb 26, 2021
The PloughRead: The Corporate Parent by Maria Hengeveld
Feb 24, 2021
The PloughRead: The Gift of Death by Leslie Verner
Feb 24, 2021
The PloughRead: When Dvořák Went to Iowa to Meet God by Nathan Beacom
Feb 24, 2021
The PloughRead: Not Just Nuclear by Edwidge Danticat
Feb 20, 2021
The PloughRead: The Beautiful Institution by Jonathan Sacks
Feb 20, 2021
The PloughRead: The Case for One More Child by Ross Douthat
Feb 20, 2021
The PloughRead: Family Matters by Peter Mommsen
Feb 20, 2021