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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.

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
Podcast
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
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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
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
Podcast
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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
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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
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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
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

    Ploughcast Transcripts

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    March 16, 2021
    PloughCast 1: Political Violence and the White Rose
    Is political violence ever justified? And what might the White Rose have to teach today’s antifa, and their detractors?
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    March 23, 2021
    PloughCast 2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa
    How did Bruderhof founder Eberhard Arnold’s militant nonviolence manifest, and subvert, the spirit of his age? And what really happened in Portland this summer?
    Patrick Tomassi
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    March 30, 2021
    PloughCast 3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat
    Scott Beauchamp and Scott Button write on commitment – to the military, to conscientious objection – and its consequences; Rhina Espaillat joins your podcasters to talk about poetry.
    Scott Beauchamp
    Rhina P. Espaillat
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for The PloughCast episode 4 with three guest headshots and a waveform graphic.
    April 6, 2021
    PloughCast 4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape
    Gracy Olmstead reflects on radical gentleness and finding herself pregnant early in the Covid pandemic; Zito Madu talks about rap, poverty, and Oedipus.
    Zito Madu
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    April 13, 2021
    PloughCast 5: From Zurich to Somaliland
    Rachel Pieh Jones has spent the last eighteen years living among Somali Muslims – and her Muslim friends have informed her Christian faith; Felix Manz gave his life for his own radical and nonviolent faith in 16th Century Switzerland.
    Rachel Pieh Jones
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    April 20, 2021
    PloughCast 6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Questions
    Peter and Susannah tackle listener questions, ranging from whether the state can use lethal violence to violence in the Old Testament – and beyond!
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    June 1, 2021
    PloughCast 7: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs
    Can nature teach us how to live – or does it simply want to kill us? And what about UFOs? A conversation with Ross Douthat.
    Ross Douthat
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    June 8, 2021
    PloughCast 8: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment
    What do our bodies have to tell us, and what happens when dating leaves the bodily realm?
    Mary Harrington
    Leah Libresco Sargeant
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    June 16, 2021
    PloughCast 9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition
    How can we receive the wisdom of tradition in a way that brings meaning to life in the face of death?
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    June 22, 2021
    PloughCast 10: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhumanist Medicine
    When dealing with the land and with our own bodies, how can we respect nature rather than seek to dominate it?
    John Kempf
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Peter Mommsen
    Podcast cover titled The Ploughcast Episode 11 with hosts' headshots and a rural railroad background.
    June 29, 2021
    PloughCast 11: Putting Down Roots in Idaho and Australia
    What does it mean for a place to be yours?
    Gracy Olmstead
    Norann Voll
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for The Ploughcast Episode 12 titled 'Can Nature be Evil? and Other Listener Questions' with hosts' photos.
    July 6, 2021
    PloughCast 12: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Questions
    From parasitic wasps to dolphins being jerks and, of course, UFOs, Peter and Susannah address listener questions.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for The Ploughcast Episode 13 titled One Cheer for the Nation-State with three guest photos.
    September 21, 2021
    PloughCast 13: One Cheer for the Nation-State
    Are national cultures something God values? What do we owe the sojourner? And is there something to this idea of Christendom?
    Edmund Waldstein
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    September 27, 2021
    PloughCast 14: Empire and Its Discontents
    How did the subversive power of the Christian ideal transform the mind of the West?
    Phil Klay
    Tom Holland
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    October 5, 2021
    PloughCast 15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism
    Conversations on place, nation, empire, the need for roots, and morally ambiguous semi-fallen angels.
    Tara Isabella Burton
    Dhananjay Jagannathan
    John Milbank
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for The Ploughcast Episode 16 titled The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism with four speakers shown.
    October 12, 2021
    PloughCast 16: The End of Rage; Prison and Radicalism
    What did twenty-nine years in solitary confinement do to a family’s ties? Did it stoke or reduce rage in a young Black radical?
    Ashley Lucas
    Russell Shoatz III
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast banner for The Ploughcast Episode 17: Christian Nationalism with three hosts' photos and dove background.
    October 19, 2021
    PloughCast 17: Christian Nationalism
    What is Christian nationalism, and what should the relationship of church and state be?
    Russell Moore
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for The Ploughcast Episode 18 asking Are National Borders Unchristian with two speakers' photos.
    October 26, 2021
    PloughCast 18: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other Imponderables
    Are all national borders unchristian? Peter and Susannah answer listener questions.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    January 4, 2022
    PloughCast 19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood
    Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black discuss Peter’s editorial on life and disability. Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks about living as a disabled woman.
    Victoria Reynolds Farmer
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    January 11, 2022
    PloughCast 20: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization
    How do we face suffering, chronic pain, and disease? Ross Douthat’s chronic Lyme and Aimee Murphy’s fibromyalgia are unexpected avenues into truth.
    Aimee Murphy
    Ross Douthat
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    January 18, 2022
    PloughCast 21: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means to Be Human
    Peter and Susannah talk with O. Carter Snead about his book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast episode 22 titled Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome with four guest headshots.
    January 25, 2022
    PloughCast 22: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome
    Peter and Susannah talk to Rosemarie Garland-Thomson about bioethics and with J. D. Flynn about genetic testing and parenting kids with Down syndrome.
    Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
    J. D. Flynn
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    February 1, 2022
    PloughCast 23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body
    Kelsey Osgood grapples with raising her family in a Modern Orthodox Jewish community; Leah Libresco Sargeant looks at the good of dependence.
    Kelsey Osgood
    Leah Libresco Sargeant
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast banner for The Ploughcast Episode 24 on why disability is about being human with two speaker photos.
    February 8, 2022
    PloughCast 24: Takeaways, Why Disability Is about Being Human
    Peter and Susannah take listener questions about the social model of disability, how to talk about human value with non-Christians, and urbanism.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    March 22, 2022
    PloughCast 25: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Magnificent
    Peter and Susannah discuss the Aristotelian magnificence of Dolly Parton with Mary Townsend.
    Mary Townsend
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    March 29, 2022
    PloughCast 26: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirituals
    This episode digs into the Psalms as the songbook of the Bible, and why Black spirituals should be sung by everyone, not just Black churches.
    Brittany Hurd
    Paul Buckley
    Stephen Michael Newby
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover with two grayscale portraits and text: Why We Make Music | Episode 3, Atheism, Dante, and Music of the Spheres.
    April 5, 2022
    PloughCast 27: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres
    We talk with Esther Maria Magnis about her new book, then discuss cosmology with Dante’s descendant.
    Esther Maria Magnis
    Sperello di Serego Alighieri
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    April 12, 2022
    PloughCast 28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly
    We talk with Rowan Williams about Easter, suffering, and his new book Shakeshafte; then with Maureen Swinger on singing Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion.
    Rowan Williams
    Maureen Swinger
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    April 19, 2022
    PloughCast 29: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Philosophy, and Jane Austen
    Joey Keegin and Phil Christman on nostalgia and music, and Joy Clarkson on her book Aggressively Happy.
    Phil Christman
    Joseph M. Keegin
    Joy Marie Clarkson
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    April 26, 2022
    PloughCast 30: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A
    Zena Hitz discusses liberal arts and the Catherine Project, then Peter and Susannah answer your questions.
    Zena Hitz
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    June 28, 2022
    PloughCast 31: Hope in Wartime
    Susannah and Peter talk apocalypse, then speak with Ivan Rusyn, ministering in Kyiv and Bucha, Ukraine.
    Ivan Rusyn
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    July 5, 2022
    PloughCast 32: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics
    Peter and Susannah talk with Eleanor Parker and Owen Cyclops about Archbishop Wulfstan and American Apocalypse.
    Eleanor Parker
    Owen Cyclops
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for Hope in Apocalypse Episode 3 titled The Case for More Babies featuring Lyman Stone’s black and white photo.
    July 12, 2022
    PloughCast 33: The Case for More Babies
    Peter and Susannah talk with Lyman Stone about falling birthrates.
    Lyman Stone
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Podcast cover for Hope in Apocalypse Episode 4 with Kim Comer and Anika Prather discussing race and reconciliation.
    July 19, 2022
    PloughCast 34: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation
    Peter and Susannah speak with Kim Comer and Anika Prather about reconciliation and grief.
    Kim Comer
    Anika T. Prather
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    July 26, 2022
    PloughCast 35: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons
    Peter and Susannah talk with Christopher Tollefsen and Samuel Moyn about war, peace, and nukes.
    Christopher Tollefsen
    Samuel Moyn
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    August 2, 2022
    PloughCast 36: Technology and Listener Questions
    Peter and Susannah speak with L. M. Sacasas about technology, and then answer listener questions.
    L. M. Sacasas
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    September 27, 2022
    PloughCast 37: Vows, Liberty, and Victor Hugo
    Peter and Susannah speak about Peter’s editorial letter, “Word Is Bond,” and with Caitrin Keiper about vows in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
    Caitrin Keiper
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    October 4, 2022
    PloughCast 38: Christian Internationalism with John Milbank, and a Bruderhof Journey
    Peter and Susannah speak with John Milbank and Tom and Sue Quinta, a Bruderhof couple, about the highest commitments.
    John Milbank
    Tom and Sue Quinta
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    October 11, 2022
    PloughCast 39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow
    Susannah and Peter talk with Kelsey Osgood and King-Ho Leung about disciplines and the theology of vows.
    King-Ho Leung
    Kelsey Osgood
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    October 18, 2022
    PloughCast 40: Hyperpartisanship and Hippocrates
    Peter and Susannah speak with Justin Giboney and Lydia S. Dugdale about polarization and the Hippocratic oath.
    Justin Giboney
    Lydia S. Dugdale
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    October 25, 2022
    PloughCast 41: The World after Roe
    Peter and Susannah speak with Professor Robert P. George about the future of the pro-life movement.
    Robert P. George
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    November 1, 2022
    PloughCast 42: Zohar Atkins on Vows in Scripture and the Existentialists
    Susannah talks with Zohar Atkins about philosophy of vows, then Susannah and Pete take listener questions.
    Zohar Atkins
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    January 17, 2023
    PloughCast 43: The Work of Generations and the Wisdom of a German Prince
    Peter and Susannah talk Generations and speak with Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm on one thousand years in a place.
    Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photos of Carl Trueman in a suit and Alastair Roberts with a woman outdoors at night.
    January 24, 2023
    PloughCast 44: Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts – Freedom, Belonging, and Begetting
    Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts delve into the meaning of our obligations to past and future generations and why the Bible loves genealogy.
    Carl Trueman
    Alastair Roberts
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    January 31, 2023
    PloughCast 45: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance
    Phil Christman and Joey Keegin on effective altruism and Dhananjay Jagannathan on scholarly inheritances.
    Dhananjay Jagannathan
    Phil Christman
    Joseph M. Keegin
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
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    February 7, 2023
    PloughCast 46: Spiritual Realism; Jesus and John Wayne
    Our hosts and guests talk about overcoming social divisions, and what we can learn about American religion by watching Westerns.
    Tara Isabella Burton
    Tim Shriver
    Hannah Long
    Boze Herrington
    Peter Mommsen
    Thursday Insight
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    February 14, 2023
    PloughCast 47: Technologizing Babies, Forging Nations
    In this episode, the hosts and guests discuss ethnonationalism, generations in a monastery, and the ethics of IVF.
    Matthew Lee Anderson
    Edmund Waldstein
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photos of Alexander Raikin and Leah Libresco Sargeant side by side with Plough logo on blue background.
    February 21, 2023
    PloughCast 48: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry
    A reporter called the official MAID hotline. It took him just minutes to schedule his own medically assisted death.
    Alexander Raikin
    Leah Libresco Sargeant
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of woman with long hair in front of bookshelves labeled Jennifer Frey.
    March 7, 2023
    The PloughCast 49: Jenn Frey on Liberal Arts
    Jenn Frey discusses the value of a liberal arts education.
    Jennifer Frey
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    March 15, 2023
    PloughCast 50: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
    The great Christian apologist is an imaginary guest as the hosts consider the problem of suffering.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
    Black and white photo of a smiling man with glasses labeled Tom Holland on a blue wheat field background.
    March 22, 2023
    PloughCast 51: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain
    How did the crucifixion of Jesus change how humanity thinks about suffering?
    Tom Holland
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    March 29, 2023
    The PloughCast 52: Oberammergau and the Art of the Passion
    Joy Clarkson and William P. Hyland discuss why the Oberammergau Passion Play disappoints and how artists have imagined Jesus’ crucifixion.
    Joy Marie Clarkson
    William P. Hyland
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    April 5, 2023
    The PloughCast 53: How to Read the Four Passion Stories
    It’s the most famous story in history. Alastair Roberts helps us read the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ death with fresh eyes.
    Alastair Roberts
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of Eleanor Parker with glasses smiling against a floral blue background.
    April 12, 2023
    PloughCast 54: Eleanor Parker on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
    An Oxford medievalist discusses the Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood.
    Eleanor Parker
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a man with beard and collared shirt in front of a bookshelf.
    April 19, 2023
    PloughCast 55: L. M. Sacasas on Why We Are Not AIs
    A philosopher reflects on human uniqueness.
    L. M. Sacasas
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    April 26, 2023
    PloughCast 56: Felix Manz and the Birth of Anabaptism
    Jason Landsel, author of a new graphic novel, talks about the Radical Reformation and its legacy.
    Jason Landsel
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    May 3, 2023
    PloughCast 57: A Canadian Priest on Medical Assistance in Dying
    Benjamin Crosby discusses the failure of mainline churches to speak clearly on Canada's euthanasia regime.
    Benjamin Crosby
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    May 10, 2023
    PloughCast 58: James Mumford on God, Politics, Depression, Therapy, and Philosophy
    A philosopher examines the theological implications of mental illness and its treatment.
    James Mumford
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
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    May 17, 2023
    PloughCast 59: Churches against the Law
    Hannah Nation tells the story of Wang Yi’s imprisonment and the Chinese house church movement.
    Hannah Nation
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
    Black and white portrait of a smiling woman with a headscarf labeled Marianne Wright on a blue floral background.
    May 24, 2023
    60: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction
    Marianne Wright discusses C.S. Lewis’s prescient science fiction novel.
    Marianne Wright
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
    Black and white photos of Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts side by side with Plough logo on blue background.
    May 31, 2023
    PloughCast 61: A Tale of Camels and Needles
    Why an issue on money? What is money for? Peter and Susannah discuss.
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of Eugene McCarraher with glasses and gray hair on blue wheat background with Plough logo.
    June 7, 2023
    PloughCast 62: Is Money Power?
    Eugene McCarraher and Peter Mommsen speak about why modern capitalism is anything but secular.
    Eugene McCarraher
    Peter Mommsen
    Wednesday Podcast
    Black and white portraits of Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant side by side with Plough logo.
    June 21, 2023
    PloughCast 63: Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant on Effective Altruism
    The Good Samaritan is an effective altruist in a retelling of Jesus' parable.
    Phil Christman
    Leah Libresco Sargeant
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Wednesday Podcast
    Portrait of smiling man with beard and suit jacket labeled Alastair Roberts on blue floral background.
    July 5, 2023
    PloughCast 64: Mary of Bethany and the Virtue of Magnificence
    Alastair Roberts discusses Mary of Bethany’s magnificent generosity.
    Alastair Roberts
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portraits of Daniel Walden and Clare Coffey side by side on a blue patterned background.
    July 19, 2023
    PloughCast 65: Buying and Selling Friends
    Clare Coffey and Daniel Walden discuss influencer culture, MLMs, and the monetization of friendship.
    Clare Coffey
    Daniel Walden
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of a man with glasses, beard, and wavy hair named Paul Kingsnorth.
    August 2, 2023
    PloughCast 66: The Technology of Demons
    The PloughCast team talks with a former Wiccan priest and recent Christian convert about artificial intelligence and demons.
    Paul Kingsnorth
    Madoc Cairns
    Alan Koppschall
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a bearded man labeled David Bentley Hart on a blue floral background with Plough logo.
    August 15, 2023
    PloughCast 67: David Bentley Hart and the Worship of Mammon
    The PloughCast team talks with a philosopher and cultural commentator about money.
    David Bentley Hart
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Timothy J. Keiderling
    Black and white photo of a man with short hair and beard looking sideways, named Fredrik deBoer.
    September 13, 2023
    PloughCast 68: The State of the Left
    Leah and Susannah grill Fredrik deBoer on the state of the left and his book The Cult of Smart.
    Fredrik deBoer
    Leah Libresco Sargeant
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a woman with curly hair wearing a dark sweater against a floral blue background.
    September 27, 2023
    PloughCast 69: Creating Our Identities
    Tara Isabella Burton comes on the pod to ask, How did we become a world of self-makers?
    Tara Isabella Burton
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of smiling man named William Cavanaugh with illustrated wheat background.
    October 11, 2023
    PloughCast 70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consumer Economy?
    Peter and Susannah talk with Dr. William T. Cavanaugh about his book Being Consumed.
    William Cavanaugh
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portraits of Clare Stober and Marianne Wright side by side with a Plough logo on the right.
    October 25, 2023
    PloughCast 71: On Giving Up All One’s Money
    Susannah speaks with Clare Stober and Marianne Wright about living without money.
    Clare Stober
    Marianne Wright
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a man in a suit with a patterned blue background and a logo reading Plough.
    November 8, 2023
    PloughCast 72: Tyranny, Inc.
    The hosts speak with Sohrab Ahmari about how private power crushed American liberty. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?
    Sohrab Ahmari
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a smiling woman with glasses and curly hair against a floral background.
    November 22, 2023
    PloughCast 73: Achieving Disagreement and Other Tips for Political Conversation
    Susannah Black Roberts speaks with Stephanie Summers about how political opponents can disagree well.
    Stephanie Summers
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Portraits of Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Sitman with white 'P' and Plough logo on blue background.
    January 10, 2024
    PloughCast 74: Friends Don’t Let Politics End Friendships
    Matthew Sitman and Sohrab Ahmari discuss friendship across political divides.
    Sohrab Ahmari
    Matthew Sitman
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a smiling man with glasses and beard labeled Zohar Atkins.
    January 24, 2024
    PloughCast 75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?
    Rabbi Zohar Atkins discusses the original meaning of tikkun olam and how it has changed over time.
    Zohar Atkins
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of a man wearing a knitted sweater with text 'Adam Nicolson' below.
    February 7, 2024
    PloughCast 76: Restoring a Farm
    Adam Nicolson discusses repairing his farm, sailing the Aegean, and Homer.
    Adam Nicolson
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Headshots of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin with Plough logo on a blue patterned background.
    February 21, 2024
    PloughCast 77: The New Eugenics
    Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin discuss euthanasia and eugenics.
    Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
    Alexander Raikin
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white headshot of Ross Douthat with blue floral patterned background and Plough logo.
    March 6, 2024
    PloughCast 78: Worshiping Nature
    Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not necessarily a guide to what is good.
    Ross Douthat
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of a man with beard and crossed arms labeled Alastair Roberts on a floral blue background.
    March 20, 2024
    PloughCast 79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament
    Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament.
    Alastair Roberts
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Illustration of two vintage microphones against a wheat field background with Plough logo to the right.
    April 3, 2024
    The PloughCast 80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
    Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and Technology.
    Sebastian Milbank
    Matthew Scarince
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white portrait of woman smiling with floral background and the name Joy Marie Clarkson.
    April 17, 2024
    PloughCast 81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?
    Joy Marie Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor.
    Joy Marie Clarkson
    Susannah Black Roberts
    Black and white photo of James and Helen Rebanks with four dogs on an ATV in a rural landscape.
    May 22, 2024
    PloughCast 82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District
    Bestselling authors James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle – and a family – in the Lake District.
    James Rebanks
    Helen Rebanks
    Peter Mommsen
    Susannah Black Roberts