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.
Latest episodes
Mar 12, 2025 • 16min
Teaching the One Percent by Dhananjay Jagannathan
Dhananjay Jagannathan defends the spiritual worth of liberal education at Columbia University.
Mar 7, 2025 • 1h 7min
Jesus Changes Everything: An Afternoon with Stanley Hauerwas
For decades, Stanley Hauerwas has been provoking Christians with his insistence that if they would only follow their Master, it would impact all areas of life, from the personal to the societal. In his new book, *Jesus Changes Everything*, his timely and prophetic voice speaks to another generation of followers of Jesus tired of religion as usual. On March 4, 2025, Stanley Hauerwas, Brian Zahnd, and Charles E. Moore had a conversation about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus today. The event was co-sponsored with the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies and Acts 2 At Duke.Get the book here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/jesus-changes-everything
Mar 5, 2025 • 26min
Tell an Old Story for Modern Times by Lisabeth Button
A Bruderhof teacher applies lessons from her mentors and Homer in her classroom and beyond.
Feb 26, 2025 • 21min
Why We’re Failing to Pass on Christianity by Benjamin Crosby
How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it?
Feb 19, 2025 • 23min
The School that Escaped to the Alps by Marianne Wright
Faced with a Nazi takeover, the first Bruderhof school took refuge in Liechtenstein.
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.
Feb 5, 2025 • 17min
Why I Became a Firefighter by Brit Frazier
A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
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.
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.
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.
