Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

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.

Episodes

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. Read transcript here.
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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 possible after th...
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Joy Marie Clarkson and Alison Milbank discuss the importance of angels and why parishes are good. Read transcript here.
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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. Read transcript here
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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. Read transcript here.
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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? Read the transcript.
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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. View the transcript Learn more: plough.com/podcast
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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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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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