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

May 21, 2025 12 mins
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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April 2, 2025 14 mins
A high-school science teacher and his students practice conservation in the woods and ponds of upstate New York.
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The mysterious friend of C. S. Lewis teaches how to know and be known in Christ.
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My kids already know the world is not safe. Will dragons and goblins make it worse?
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Dhananjay Jagannathan defends the spiritual worth of liberal education at Columbia University.
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For decades, Stanley Hauerwas has been provoking Christians with his insistence that if they would only follow their Master, it would impact all areas of life, from the personal to the societal. In his new book, *Jesus Changes Everything*, his timely and prophetic voice speaks to another generation of followers of Jesus tired of religion as usual. On March 4, 2025, Stanley Hauerwas, Brian Zahnd, and Charles E. Moore had a convers...
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A Bruderhof teacher applies lessons from her mentors and Homer in her classroom and beyond.
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How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it?
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Faced with a Nazi takeover, the first Bruderhof school took refuge in Liechtenstein.
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Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.
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February 5, 2025 16 mins
A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
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A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.
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January 22, 2025 26 mins
Peter Mommsen asks whether our society has lost sight of how to raise young humans.
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Pan Youngguang describes how his persecuted house church chooses to flee together as a community.
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