The PloughCast: a podcast from Plough Quarterly

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The PloughCast: a podcast from Plough Quarterly

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.

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Listen to the latest episodes of The PloughCast:

82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District

81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?

80: The Technology of Middle-Earth

79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament

78: Worshiping Nature

77: The New Eugenics

76: Restoring a Farm

75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?

74: Friends Don’t Let Politics End Friendships

73: Achieving Disagreement and Other Tips for Political Conversation

72: Tyranny, Inc.

71: On Giving Up All One’s Money

70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consumer Economy?

69: Creating Our Identities

68: The State of the Left

Bonus Episode: Is Barbie a confused mess or deeply insightful?

67: David Bentley Hart and the Worship of Mammon

66: The Technology of Demons

65: Buying and Selling Friends

64: Mary of Bethany and the Virtue of Magnificence

63: Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant on Effective Altruism

62: Is Money Power?

61: A Tale of Camels and Needles

60 Pain and Passion, Part 11: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction

59 Pain and Passion, Part 10: Churches Against the Law

58 Pain and Passion, Part 9: James Mumford on God, Politics, Depression, Therapy, and Philosophy

57 Pain and Passion, Part 8: A Canadian Priest on Medical Assistance in Dying

56 Pain and Passion, Part 7: Felix Manz and the Birth of Anabaptism

55 Pain and Passion, Part 6: L. M. Sacasas on Why We Are Not AIs

54 Pain and Passion, Part 5: Eleanor Parker on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

53 Pain and Passion, Part 4: How to Read the Four Passion Stories

52 Pain and Passion, Part 3: Oberammergau and the Art of the Passion

51 Pain and Passion, Part 2: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain

50 Pain and Passion, Part 1: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain

49: Jenn Frey on Liberal Arts

48 Generations, Part 6: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry

47 Generations, Part 5: Technologizing Babies, Forging Nations

46 Generations, Part 4: Spiritual Realism; Jesus and John Wayne

45 Generations, Part 3: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance

44 Generations, Part 2: Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts – Freedom, Belonging, and Begetting

43 Generations, Part 1: The Work of Generations and the Wisdom of a German Prince

42 The Vows That Bind, Part 6: Zohar Atkins on Vows in Scripture and the Existentialists

41 The Vows That Bind, Part 5: The World after Roe

40 The Vows That Bind, Part 4: Hyperpartisanship and Hippocrates

39 The Vows That Bind, Part 3: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow

38 The Vows That Bind, Part 2: Christian Internationalism with John Milbank, and a Bruderhof Journey

37 The Vows That Bind, Part 1: Vows, Liberty, and Victor Hugo

After Liberalism – What? A PloughCast/Wisdom of Crowds Joint Episode

PloughCast Bonus Episode: An Interview with Johnny Cash

36 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 6: Technology and Listener Questions

35 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 5: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons

34 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 4: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation

33 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 3: The Case for More Babies

32 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 2: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics

31 Hope in Apocalypse, Part 1: Hope in Wartime

30 Why We Make Music, Part 6: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A

29 Why We Make Music, Part 5: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Philosophy, and Jane Austen

28 Why We Make Music, Part 4: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly

27 Why We Make Music, Part 3: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres

26 Why We Make Music, Part 2: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirituals

25 Why We Make Music, Part 1: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Magnificent

24 Made Perfect, Part 6: Takeaways: Why Disability Is about Being Human

23 Made Perfect, Part 5: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body

22 Made Perfect, Part 4: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome

21 Made Perfect, Part 3: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means to Be Human

20 Made Perfect, Part 2: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization

19 Made Perfect, Part 1: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood

18 Beyond Borders, Part 6: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other Imponderables

17 Beyond Borders, Part 5: Christian Nationalism

16 Beyond Borders, Part 4: The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism

15 Beyond Borders, Part 3: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism

14 Beyond Borders, Part 2: Empire and its Discontents

13 Beyond Borders, Part 1: One Cheer for the Nation State

12 Creatures, Part 6: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Questions

11 Creatures, Part 5: Gracy Olmstead on her book Uprooted and Norann Voll on putting down roots in Australia

10 Creatures, Part 4: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhumanist Medicine

9 Creatures, Part 3: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition

8 Creatures, Part 2: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment

7 Creatures, Part 1: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs

6 Violence of Love, Part 6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Questions

5 Violence of Love, Part 5: From Zurich to Somaliland

4 Violence of Love, Part 4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape

3 Violence of Love, Part 3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat

2 Violence of Love, Part 2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa

1 Violence of Love, Part 1: Political Violence and the White Rose

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