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

November 6, 2024 30 mins
Jordan Castro describes how he sought freedom in drugs and novels, but they couldn't save him.
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John M.G. Barclay explores how Paul's letters probe the paradox of freedom through love.
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Sohrab Ahmari asks what happened to the Christian tradition of supporting workers' rights?
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J. Daniel Sims, an insider, reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia’s aid industry.
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James Wood tells his conversion story and asks: Is commitment just for suckers?
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Peter Mommsen asks what's the point of freedom?
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Alastair Roberts describes how our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.
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Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.
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Simon Oliver argues that some goods and services have value beyond their market price.
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David Schaengold argues that computers can’t do math and the human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.
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Brian Miller, an East Tennessee farmer, praises a simple piece of technology.
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Peter Mommsen asks how we can live well with technology?
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Arlie Coles asks if large language models should write sermons and prayers.
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Andrew Zimmerman tells how the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.
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Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.
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J. L. Wall describes how the way we read scripture has changed and the way that it has remained the same.
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Robert Lee Williams tells how even a little tech in prison can make a big difference.
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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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Tim Maendel describes his love of hunting and the connection it gives him to the human species' natural history.
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Rhys Laverty writes about the Alderney Breakwater, a crumbling jetty in the Channel Islands that protects a way of life.
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