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

September 7, 2025 15 mins
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
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The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
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Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
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Sharon could hardly leave the house. She showed me the wonder and limits of therapy.
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After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?
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For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
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Living with a chronic illness, I’ve traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.
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Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
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The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
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August 29, 2025 21 mins
An addict looks for a way out.
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August 28, 2025 17 mins
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
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On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.
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August 26, 2025 11 mins
My grandfather’s best summer was the one he spent dying.
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Can Sherlock Holmes help us find meaning in life? Detective stories and murder mysteries hint at how to make sense of our world.
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A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
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In de-industrializing France, a shuttle bus is workers’ last link to stability.
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America’s theologian isn’t worried about the death of cultural Christianity.
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Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses.
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In a year wracked by violence, I remember the crucifixion to find comfort.
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Why do we work? The dream of a truly human economy spans millennia, from Genesis to Marx to Martin Luther King.
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