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 29, 2023 • 11 mins
Kathleen A. Mulhern considers how we should spend our time in the evenings. We start the day intentionally and prayerfully, but all bets are off after five o’clock p.m.
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November 24, 2023 • 13 mins
Sarah Clarkson says that when mental illness struck, her mind became her enemy. She shares her struggle to love it again.
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November 22, 2023 • 70 mins
Susannah Black Roberts speaks with Stephanie Summers about how political opponents can disagree well. Stephanie is the head of the Center for Public Justice (CJP), a DC-based group that works with faith organizations and other organizations, as well as with Congress, to help craft a public culture and political culture that supports the Kuyperian idea of principled pluralism.
We don’t all agree on issues of religious and moral impo...
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November 15, 2023 • 13 mins
In an interview, Archbishop Angalelos speaks about the Coptic Christians’ legacy of forgiving their enemies and those who persecute them.
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November 10, 2023 • 19 mins
Staughton Lynd and other radical visionaries experiment with communal living in the hills of Georgia.
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November 8, 2023 • 65 mins
The hosts speak with Sohrab Ahmari about how private power crushed American liberty.
Sohrab’s new book, Tyranny, Inc., is a thoroughly reported look at the way that private economic power, especially the conditions of employment, has taken away workers’ abilities to have agency over their own lives. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? Sohrab looks at the history of the last several hundred years, from the enclosure mo...
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November 1, 2023 • 24 mins
Mary Townsend explores the concept of loving sinners, hating sins, and what our response as Christians should be.
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October 27, 2023 • 13 mins
Rachel Cañon Naffziger tells the story of Egor Redin, a Baptist lawyer from Russia who spoke out against the war.
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October 25, 2023 • 54 mins
Susannah speaks with Clare Stober and Marianne Wright about living without money.
Clare didn’t grow up in the Bruderhof – she made the decision to join when she was in her early thirties, after a successful career. She describes her spiritual quest, and the doubts and worries that came with considering joining – and the freedom that she has felt since then.
Marianne is fourth-generation Bruderhof, has never had her own bank account...
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October 18, 2023 • 28 mins
Benjamin Crosby asks if we can afford to love our enemies in an unforgiving society?
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October 13, 2023 • 13 mins
Timothy J. Keiderling reflects from Israel on the teachings of Jesus and who are the enemies we should love.
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October 11, 2023 • 73 mins
Peter and Susannah talk with Dr. William Cavanaugh about his book Being Consumed.
What is the nature of the consumer economy? That’s what this short book seeks to explore. William Cavanaugh discusses his argument with the hosts, asking questions such as: When is a market free? Is our problem that we are too attached to consumer products? Should we be aiming at a local economy? Do we live in a world of scarcity?
Along the way they d...
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October 4, 2023 • 7 mins
Robert Lockridge and his family share their homegrown food with the people who live in their urban neighborhood, whether or not they can afford it.
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September 29, 2023 • 6 mins
Phil Christman has a Tradcath, an exvangelical influencer, a mainliner, and a conservative megachurch pastor star in this retelling of Luke 10:30–37.
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September 26, 2023 • 46 mins
Tara Isabella Burton comes on the pod to ask, How did we become a world of self-makers?
Susannah, Pete and Tara discuss her new book, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. What were the intellectual and imaginative and social currents that led us from a world where the self was something given or discovered to one in which it was made?
What is the role of America’s Gilded Age millionaires in this stor...
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September 20, 2023 • 22 mins
Maria Weiss finds pain and friendship in the enforced community of outcasts at a Paraguayan leper colony.
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September 15, 2023 • 16 mins
Zito Madu describes how his parents’ insistence on reserving an entire room in their small house for books expanded his world.
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September 13, 2023 • 67 mins
Leah and Susannah grill Fredrik deBoer on the state of leftist politics.
What happened in 2020 and why have things not changed more? How does a self-described leftist perceive the stakes and priorities of America’s political divide? What happens when labor power is no longer at the center of leftist politics?
They then discuss his 2020 book The Cult of Smart, and Leah presses him on where he derives his sense of the existential wor...
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September 6, 2023 • 11 mins
Maureen Swinger describes what it is like to live in a Bruderhof community where you possess nothing but share everything.
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September 1, 2023 • 25 mins
As the Industrial Revolution took off, writes Jack Bell, William Cobbett rose in defense of the cottage economy.
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