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
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.
Dec 4, 2024 • 24min
The PloughRead: The Bible’s Story of Freedom by Heinrich Arnold
Heinrich Arnold describes how scripture tells an unfinished history of liberation.
Nov 27, 2024 • 17min
The PloughRead: Form and Freedom by Joy Marie Clarkson
Visual artist Hannah Rose Thomas, architect Charles Howell, and poet Malcolm Guite celebrate the freedom of coloring within the lines.
Nov 20, 2024 • 16min
The PloughRead: Taking Lifelong Vows by Dori Moody
Dori Moody describes how poverty, chastity, and obedience bring a different kind of freedom.
Nov 13, 2024 • 24min
The PloughRead: The Body She Had by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Rosemarie Garland Thomson asks why parents are not spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability.
Nov 6, 2024 • 30min
The PloughRead: Recovering from Heroin and Fiction by Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro describes how he sought freedom in drugs and novels, but they couldn't save him.
