The PloughCast

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.

Episodes

The PloughRead: The Tech of Prison Parenting by Robert Lee Williams

June 5, 2024 • 25 mins
Robert Lee Williams tells how even a little tech in prison can make a big difference.
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82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District

May 22, 2024 • 60 mins
James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle in the Lake District. James describes the landscape where their families have lived for six hundred years, and how they have begun practicing regenerative agriculture as a way of restoring the land that recent conventional agriculture had damaged. He gives details about the sheep and cattle herds and the grazing systems they’ve established. Then Helen describes what led h...
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The PloughRead: Why I Hunt by Tim Maendel

May 17, 2024 • 14 mins
Tim Maendel describes his love of hunting and the connection it gives him to the human species' natural history.
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The PloughRead: Breakwater by Rhys Laverty

May 10, 2024 • 18 mins
Rhys Laverty writes about the Alderney Breakwater, a crumbling jetty in the Channel Islands that protects a way of life.
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The PloughRead: Lambing Season by Norann Voll

May 8, 2024 • 7 mins
Norann Voll learned some of life’s most important lessons from her father while caring for sheep.
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The PloughRead: The Sadness of the Creatures by Peter Mommsen

May 3, 2024 • 28 mins
Peter Mommsen asks if humans should live by the laws of nature.
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The PloughRead: Are You a Tree? by Joy Clarkson

April 26, 2024 • 15 mins
In an excerpt from her book, Joy Marie Clarkson explores the natural metaphors that we use. Are you a tree, she asks, or are you a potted plant?
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The PloughRead: Meeting the Wolf by Greta Gaffin

April 24, 2024 • 20 mins
Greta Gaffin asks if humans should return to nature, and looks to the lives of two saints who taught us to make peace with it instead.
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The PloughRead: The Leper of Abercuawg by David McBride

April 19, 2024 • 26 mins
David McBride introduces his new translation of The Leper of Abercuawg, a thousand-year-old Welsh poem in which an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.
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81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?

April 17, 2024 • 36 mins
Joy Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor. Why are metaphors important? How can they help us live well – and how can they go wrong? Why should we not think of ourselves as computers? And what does all this mean for our language about God? In the discussion, Joy and Susannah range widely through topics including apophatic theology, the inevitability of metaphorical language, Owen Barfield, Anthroposophy, Su...
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The PloughRead: The Plants Can Talk by William Thomas Okie

April 12, 2024 • 24 mins
William Thomas Okie says plants can talk; but is anyone listening?
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The PloughRead: Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm by Colin Boller

April 10, 2024 • 19 mins
Colin Boller explains how regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.
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The PloughRead: Dandelions: An Apology by Clare Coffey

April 5, 2024 • 17 mins
Clare Coffey gives a defense of the dandelion, the plant that always comes back.
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80: The Technology of Middle-Earth

April 3, 2024 • 60 mins
Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and technology. Susannah chimes in. Is J. R. R. Tolkien anti-technology? What is the relationship between magic and technology in the world of the Lord of the Rings, and in ours? What do the elves have to do with that? What can we tell by looking at the rings, the palantíri, the silmarils? Should the Lord of the Rings be read as a straightforward critique of industrial society?...
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The PloughRead: Saskatchewan, Promised Land by Daniel J. D. Stulac

March 27, 2024 • 23 mins
Daniel J. D. Stulac, a newcomer to Saskatchewan, searches for the Old Testament promise.
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The PloughRead: The Wonder of Moths by Caroline Moore

March 22, 2024 • 17 mins
Caroline Moore has studied moths since she was a child. She writes how they showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.
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79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament

March 20, 2024 • 61 mins
Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament. Jesus expected his followers to know that he was going to have to die and would then be resurrected – but, famously, they didn’t figure it out until it happened. What were Jewish expectations of resurrection, and where is the idea found in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible? Alastair discusses the hints and implications found throughout the text, from metaphors...
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The PloughRead: Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just Being Nice by Clarence Jordan

March 15, 2024 • 13 mins
Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) argued that true Christian fellowship as practiced by the early church demands sharing of material possessions, distribution of those goods, and racial equality.
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78: Worshiping Nature

March 6, 2024 • 53 mins
Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not a guide to what is good. The idea that the natural world is to be worshiped can take many forms. Douthat and Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts discuss these forms, ranging from Wordsworthian spiritual experiences in a national park, to worshiping ancestral or local gods, to civic religions of left and right, to tarot card reading, to affirming the Darwinian struggle for exist...
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The PloughRead: Three Pillars of Education by Heinrich Arnold

February 23, 2024 • 11 mins
Heinrich Arnold writes that in the Bruderhof, as in any society, children flourish when family, school, and community align.
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