Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

Katja Hoyer, a German historian discusses her new book on Weimar and how the Communists stifled religion. This podcast is from ⁠⁠⁠Plough Quarterly⁠⁠⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠⁠⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠⁠⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

In the latest episode of Another Life, Dr. Easten Law sheds light on the complexities of faith in contemporary China. Read transcript here. This podcast is from ⁠⁠Plough Quarterly⁠⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

In the latest episode of Another Life, Karen Kilby and Joy Clarkson discuss how should Christians should respond to a declining church. Read transcript here. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

Julian Peters, the comic artist behind Plough’s new anthology of nature poems, talks to Joy Clarkson. Read transcript here. Get Nature Poems to See By. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. Read transcript here. This podcast is from Plough Quarterly, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. Subscribe at our introductory rate to learn how another life is possible.

⁠Makoto Fujimura⁠, ⁠Haejin Fujimura⁠ and ⁠Joy Marie Clarkson⁠ discuss how art can serve as a means of envisioning a just future. Read transcript here. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

In this episode of Another Life, Joy Clarkson speaks with Natalie Carnes, a professor of theology at Duke University, about the role of images in worship. Read the transcript. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

Brandon Vaidyanathan: I discovered beauty through betrayal by my girlfriend, studying business, and my mother's mental illness. Read the transcript. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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 the “machine”? On October 1, 2025, Paul Kingsnorth gave this talk, sponsored by Plough. Following remarks from Kingsnorth, Jacqueline Rivers and Sean D. Kelly responded. Read the transcript here. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

Joy Marie Clarkson and Alison Milbank discuss the importance of angels and why parishes are good. Read transcript here. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

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. Read the transcript. This podcast is from ⁠Plough Quarterly⁠, a magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. ⁠Subscribe at our introductory rate⁠ to learn how another life is possible.

Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.

The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.

Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.

Sharon could hardly leave the house. She showed me the wonder and limits of therapy.

After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?

For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.

Living with a chronic illness, I’ve traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.

Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.

The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.

An addict looks for a way out.

The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.

On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.

My grandfather’s best summer was the one he spent dying.

Can Sherlock Holmes help us find meaning in life? Detective stories and murder mysteries hint at how to make sense of our world.

A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.

In de-industrializing France, a shuttle bus is workers’ last link to stability.

America’s theologian isn’t worried about the death of cultural Christianity.

Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses.

In a year wracked by violence, I remember the crucifixion to find comfort.

Why do we work? The dream of a truly human economy spans millennia, from Genesis to Marx to Martin Luther King.

A high-school science teacher and his students practice conservation in the woods and ponds of upstate New York.

The mysterious friend of C. S. Lewis teaches how to know and be known in Christ.

My kids already know the world is not safe. Will dragons and goblins make it worse?

Dhananjay Jagannathan defends the spiritual worth of liberal education at Columbia University.

For decades, Stanley Hauerwas has been provoking Christians with his insistence that if they would only follow their Master, it would impact all areas of life, from the personal to the societal. In his new book, *Jesus Changes Everything*, his timely and prophetic voice speaks to another generation of followers of Jesus tired of religion as usual. On March 4, 2025, Stanley Hauerwas, Brian Zahnd, and Charles E. Moore had a conversation about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus today. The event was co-sponsored with the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies and Acts 2 At Duke. Get the book here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/jesus-changes-everything

A Bruderhof teacher applies lessons from her mentors and Homer in her classroom and beyond.

How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it?

Faced with a Nazi takeover, the first Bruderhof school took refuge in Liechtenstein.

Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.

A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.

A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.

Peter Mommsen asks whether our society has lost sight of how to raise young humans.

Pan Youngguang describes how his persecuted house church chooses to flee together as a community.

Santiago Ramos points out that in a dictatorship, literature nurtures freedom. In a democracy, does it matter?

Maureen Swinger describes an old school bus’s transformation into a space for coffee and camaraderie.