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The PloughCast

Plough Publishing

The PloughCast

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A weekly Society and Culture podcast featuring Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black
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Greta Gaffin asks if humans should return to nature, and looks to the lives of two saints who taught us to make peace with it instead.
David McBride introduces his new translation of The Leper of Abercuawg, a thousand-year-old Welsh poem in which an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.
Joy Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor.Why are metaphors important? How can they help us live well – and how can they go wrong? Why should we not think of ourselves as computers? And what does all this mean for our
William Thomas Okie says plants can talk; but is anyone listening?
Colin Boller explains how regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.
Clare Coffey gives a defense of the dandelion, the plant that always comes back.
Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and technology. Susannah chimes in.Is J. R. R. Tolkien anti-technology? What is the relationship between magic and technology in the world of the Lord of the Rings, and in ours? What do th
Daniel J. D. Stulac, a newcomer to Saskatchewan, searches for the Old Testament promise.
Caroline Moore has studied moths since she was a child. She writes how they showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.
Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament.Jesus expected his followers to know that he was going to have to die and would then be resurrected – but, famously, they didn’t figure it out until it happened. What were
Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) argued that true Christian fellowship as practiced by the early church demands sharing of material possessions, distribution of those goods, and racial equality.
Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not a guide to what is good.The idea that the natural world is to be worshiped can take many forms. Douthat and Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts discuss these forms, ranging from Wordsworth
Heinrich Arnold writes that in the Bruderhof, as in any society, children flourish when family, school, and community align.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin discuss euthanasia and eugenics. What has happened in the law and society in Canada since 2016 such that MAID has exploded, becoming one of the most common causes of death there? What is the relati
Leah Libresco Sargeant writes about Grace Russo and her philosophy of mending clothes with beauty.
Zena Hitz on our time, its value, and how we might spend it if we had more of it.
Stephanie Saldaña writes that though the members of her church have been scattered by war, the church lives on.
Adam Nicolson has been rehabilitating his farm in Sussex for many years now, and he discusses the difficulties and rewards of this, and the piece that he wrote about it for Plough’s issue on repair.They go on to discuss the topics of some of N
Norman Wirzba writes that our homes and workplaces should nurture and celebrate life.
Adam Nicolson tells of reversing the destructive agricultural damage done to his farm in the past.
Christian Wiman writes that the “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.
Zohar Atkins discusses the real meaning of tikkun olam. Susannah and Zohar discuss the contemporary progressive vision of this idea, which means (or does it?) “to repair the world.” Where did that contemporary interpretation come from? And what
Carlo Gébler writes that we should try to repair the lives of others, even if things in our own lives seem broken.
Words written by Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a pacifist interracial Christian community in Georgia, taken from a Plough book, The Inconvenient Gospel.
Kurt Armstrong writes that not everyone can build skyscrapers; someone has to address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.
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