Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
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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July 14, 2026 • 36 mins
Two Plough editors discuss a roadtrip to America’s forgotten first settlement, who is America’s Homer, and much more.
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June 30, 2026 • 31 mins
For all its flaws, there’s something exceptional about the United States of America. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joins Joy Marie Clarkson on the Another Life podcast.
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May 19, 2026 • 29 mins
There’s something about the experience of being in the world that evokes wonder. Listen to Joy Marie Clarkson’s conversation with King-Ho Leung.
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May 5, 2026 • 41 mins
Katja Hoyer, a German historian discusses her new book on Weimar and how the Communists stifled religion.
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April 21, 2026 • 39 mins
In the latest episode of Another Life, Dr. Easten Law sheds light on the complexities of faith in contemporary China.
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April 7, 2026 • 34 mins
In the latest episode of Another Life, Karen Kilby and Joy Clarkson discuss how should Christians should respond to a declining church.
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March 24, 2026 • 44 mins
Julian Peters, the comic artist behind Plough’s new anthology of nature poems, talks to Joy Clarkson. Read transcript here.
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March 3, 2026 • 35 mins
Norann Voll and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss how they are observing Lent and a book of Lenten and Easter devotions that you shouldn’t miss.
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February 17, 2026 • 45 mins
Makoto Fujimura, Haejin Fujimura and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss how art can serve as a means of envisioning a just future.
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February 3, 2026 • 48 mins
In this episode of Another Life, Joy Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship.
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January 20, 2026 • 50 mins
Brandon Vaidyanathan: I discovered beauty through betrayal by my girlfriend, studying business, and my mother's mental illness.
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January 6, 2026 • 41 mins
In a new season of the Another Life podcast, Joy Marie Clarkson and
Ben Quash look at beauty in the Old and New Testaments.
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December 30, 2025 • 119 mins
In his new book *Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity*, English writer Paul Kingsnorth argues that forces of economic globalization have treated people as means not ends, leading to homogenized culture and widespread nihilism. With the force of this “machine” sucking us in, how can we remain human? How can we fend off despair and cynicism when it threatens to crush our very soul? Is another life really possi...
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December 9, 2025 • 56 mins
Joy Marie Clarkson and Alison Milbank discuss the importance of angels and why parishes are good.
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November 25, 2025 • 67 mins
Sarah Killam Crosby, Benjamin Crosby, and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss what happens to your life, church, and marriage when you actually believe in the Holy Spirit.
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November 11, 2025 • 48 mins
US Marines veteran Phil Klay talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
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October 28, 2025 • 60 mins
We are seeing an unexpected resurgence of openness to God and spiritual matters, and an uptick in religious participation. What’s behind it?
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October 14, 2025 • 57 mins
To live in better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore.
In today's inaugural episode, Joy interviews Plough Editor-in-chief Peter Mommsen, and senior editor Maureen Swinger and her husband, Jason.
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September 7, 2025 • 15 mins
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
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September 6, 2025 • 21 mins
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
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