
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

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.

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?

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.

Dec 25, 2024 • 14min
The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck

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.

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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