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
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.
Oct 30, 2024 • 24min
The PloughRead: Become Slaves to One Another by John M. G. Barclay
John M.G. Barclay explores how Paul's letters probe the paradox of freedom through love.
Oct 23, 2024 • 43min
The PloughRead: The Workers and the Church by Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari asks what happened to the Christian tradition of supporting workers' rights?
Oct 16, 2024 • 46min
The PloughRead: A Lion in Phnom Penh by J. Daniel Sims
J. Daniel Sims, an insider, reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia’s aid industry.
Oct 9, 2024 • 22min
The PloughRead: The Autonomy Trap by James R. Wood
James Wood tells his conversion story and asks: Is commitment just for suckers?
Oct 2, 2024 • 23min
The PloughRead: In Defiance of All Powers by Peter Mommsen
Peter Mommsen asks what's the point of freedom?
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