

Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Plough
How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? How do technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family change the way we live? Is another life possible? Plough editor Joy Marie Clarkson digs deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
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Oct 13, 2023 • 13min
The PloughRead: Tough Love on the Mount by Timothy J. Keiderling
Timothy J. Keiderling reflects from Israel on the teachings of Jesus and who are the enemies we should love.

Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 13min
70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consumer Economy?
Dr. William Cavanaugh, author of Being Consumed, discusses the nature of the consumer economy and questions when a market is truly free. Topics covered include attachment to consumer products, aiming for a local economy, living in a world of scarcity, and strategies for becoming more aware of the things we use.

Oct 4, 2023 • 7min
The PloughRead: Pay As You Can by Robert Lockridge
Robert Lockridge and his family share their homegrown food with the people who live in their urban neighborhood, whether or not they can afford it.

Sep 29, 2023 • 7min
The PloughRead: The Effective Samaritan, A Parable by Phil Christman
Phil Christman has a Tradcath, an exvangelical influencer, a mainliner, and a conservative megachurch pastor star in this retelling of Luke 10:30–37.

Sep 26, 2023 • 46min
69: Creating Our Identities
Explore the concept of self-making in Tara Isabella Burton's book 'Self-Made', discussing the role of wealth in creating identities. Discover the intersection of religion and success in modern society, and the impact of self-creation on community. Plus, speculative hair care videos by Albrecht Dürer and a discussion on not eating bats.

Sep 20, 2023 • 23min
The PloughRead: Leper Colony Sketches by Maria Weiss and Maureen Burn
Maria Weiss finds pain and friendship in the enforced community of outcasts at a Paraguayan leper colony.

Sep 15, 2023 • 17min
The PloughRead: The Library at Home by Zito Madu
Zito Madu describes how his parents’ insistence on reserving an entire room in their small house for books expanded his world.

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 7min
68: The State of the Left
Fredrik deBoer discusses the lack of change in leftist politics, the incorporation of the anti-death penalty movement into the anti-criminal justice movement, the importance of overwhelming numbers for the left, and the nature of reality. They also explore the concept of human dignity, the origins of morality, and the contradictions of equality.

Sep 6, 2023 • 11min
The PloughRead: On Owning Twenty-Two Cars by Maureen Swinger
Maureen Swinger describes what it is like to live in a Bruderhof community where you possess nothing but share everything.

Sep 1, 2023 • 25min
The PloughRead: Saving the Commons by Jack Bell
As the Industrial Revolution took off, writes Jack Bell, William Cobbett rose in defense of the cottage economy.


