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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
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.
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.
