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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.

September 22, 2026

Who Were Harold Cruse and Howard Thurman?

Vincent W. Lloyd is on the podcast to discuss two towering figures of twentieth-century black intellectual life.

Joy Marie Clarkson
Vincent W. Lloyd
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August 25, 2026

The Lessons and Warnings of the Azusa Street Revival

Keri Day and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss a fascinating and truly Pentecost-like event – the Azusa Street Revival of the early twentieth century.

Joy Marie Clarkson
Keri Day
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August 11, 2026

Why Baseball Is the Most Sublime of Sports

On the latest episode of Another Life podcast, David Bentley Hart convinces Joy of the transcendent beauty of baseball.

David Bentley Hart
Joy Marie Clarkson
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September 22, 2026

Who Were Harold Cruse and Howard Thurman?

Vincent W. Lloyd is on the podcast to discuss two towering figures of twentieth-century black intellectual life.

Joy Marie Clarkson
Vincent W. Lloyd
Podcast
August 25, 2026

The Lessons and Warnings of the Azusa Street Revival

Keri Day and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss a fascinating and truly Pentecost-like event – the Azusa Street Revival of the early twentieth century.

Joy Marie Clarkson
Keri Day
Podcast
Podcast cover for Another Life with Joy Clarkson and a black-and-white portrait of a bearded man.
August 11, 2026

Why Baseball Is the Most Sublime of Sports

On the latest episode of Another Life podcast, David Bentley Hart convinces Joy of the transcendent beauty of baseball.

David Bentley Hart
Joy Marie Clarkson
Podcast
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July 28, 2026

Growing Roots in Appalachia

A conversation that covers returning to Appalachia, the Scopes Monkey Trial, leather britches, shucky beans, and blue ghost fireflies.

Amanda Held Opelt
Joy Marie Clarkson
Podcast
July 14, 2026

The Fountain of Youth, The Godfather, and Lana Del Rey

Two Plough editors discuss a roadtrip to America’s forgotten first settlement, who is America’s Homer, and much more.

Joy Marie Clarkson
Santiago Ramos
Podcast
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June 30, 2026

What Makes America Great?

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joins Joy Marie Clarkson on the Another Life podcast.

Ken Burns
Joy Marie Clarkson
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May 19, 2026

Existential Gratitude

There’s something about the experience of being in the world that evokes wonder.

Joy Marie Clarkson
King-Ho Leung
Podcast
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May 5, 2026
Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

A German historian discusses her new book on Weimar and how the Communists stifled religion.

Katja Hoyer
Joy Marie Clarkson
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April 21, 2026

Faith in China

In this episode, Easten Law sheds light on the complexities of Christian faith in contemporary China.

Easten Law
Joy Marie Clarkson
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April 7, 2026

All Shall Be Well

In the latest episode of Another Life, Karen Kilby and Joy Clarkson discuss how Christians should respond to a declining church.

Karen Kilby
Joy Marie Clarkson
March 24, 2026
An Artist Reinterprets Classic Nature Poems

The comic artist behind Plough’s new anthology of nature poems talks to Joy Clarkson.

Julian Peters
Joy Marie Clarkson
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March 3, 2026
A Season of Unveiling
Norann Voll and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss how they are observing Lent and a book of Lenten and Easter devotions that you shouldn’t miss.
Norann Voll
Joy Marie Clarkson
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February 17, 2026
On Beauty and Justice
Art can serve as a means of envisioning a just future.
Makoto Fujimura
Haejin Fujimura
Joy Marie Clarkson
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February 3, 2026
In Defense of Iconoclasm
Any beautiful object can become an idol. Maybe the iconoclasts were on to something.
Natalie Carnes
Joy Marie Clarkson
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January 20, 2026
Unexpected Beauty
I discovered beauty through betrayal by my girlfriend, studying business, and my mother's mental illness.
Brandon Vaidyanathan
Joy Marie Clarkson
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January 6, 2026
How Does Scripture Talk About Beauty?
In a new season of the Another Life podcast, Joy Marie Clarkson and Ben Quash look at beauty in the Old and New Testaments.
Joy Marie Clarkson
Ben Quash
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December 9, 2025
Humans Aren’t the Only Pebble on the Cosmic Beach
Joy and Alison discuss the importance of angels and why parishes are good.
Alison Milbank
Joy Marie Clarkson
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November 25, 2025
When You Believe in a Living God
What happens to your life, church, and marriage when you actually believe in the Holy Spirit?
Joy Marie Clarkson
Sarah Killam Crosby
Benjamin Crosby
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November 11, 2025
The Collective Burden of War
Phil Klay, a US Marines veteran, talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
Phil Klay
Joy Marie Clarkson
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October 28, 2025
Why Are People Returning to Church?
We are seeing an unexpected resurgence of openness to God and spiritual matters, and an uptick in religious participation. What’s behind it?
Andrew Davison
Joy Marie Clarkson
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October 14, 2025
Introducing Another Life Podcast
To live better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore.
Joy Marie Clarkson
Peter Mommsen
Maureen Swinger