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Feb 12, 2025 • 26min

Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? by Phil Christman

Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.
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Feb 5, 2025 • 17min

Why I Became a Firefighter by Brit Frazier

A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
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Jan 29, 2025 • 23min

Schools for Philosopher-Carpenters by Alex Sosler

A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.
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Jan 22, 2025 • 27min

Educating for Freedom by Peter Mommsen

Peter Mommsen asks whether our society has lost sight of how to raise young humans.
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Jan 15, 2025 • 14min

The PloughRead: An Exodus From China by Pan Yongguang

Pan Youngguang describes how his persecuted house church chooses to flee together as a community.
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Jan 8, 2025 • 32min

The PloughRead: Paraguayans Don’t Read by Santiago Ramos

Santiago Ramos points out that in a dictatorship, literature nurtures freedom. In a democracy, does it matter?
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Jan 1, 2025 • 7min

The PloughRead: The Busted Bean by Maureen Swinger

Maureen Swinger describes an old school bus’s transformation into a space for coffee and camaraderie.
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Dec 25, 2024 • 14min

The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck

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Dec 18, 2024 • 32min

The PloughRead: Encounters at the Southern Border by Robert Donnelly

Robert Donnelly meets the migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
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Dec 11, 2024 • 12min

The PloughRead: Jakob Hutter, Radical Reformer by Emmy Barth Maendel

Emmy Barth Maendel describes how, in just three short years, a sixteenth-century martyr founded a church that has endured to this day.

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