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Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson — 304 episodes
Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Faith in China
All Shall Be Well
An Artist Reinterprets Classic Nature Poems
A Season of Unveiling
On Beauty and Justice
In Defense of Iconoclasm
Unexpected Beauty
How Does Scripture Talk About Beauty?
Bonus episode: Paul Kingsnorth gives a talk called “Six Ways to Resist the Machine”
Humans Aren’t the Only Pebble on the Cosmic Beach
When You Believe in a Living God
The Collective Burden of War
Why Are People Returning to Church?
Introducing Another Life Podcast
In Defense of Pint and Pipe by Malcolm Guite
Against Self-Optimization by David Zahl
The Exploitation of Immigrant Care Workers by Hazel Thompson
What My First Psychiatric Patient Taught Me by Abraham M. Nussbaum
Abraham’s Warring Children by Kelsey Osgood
What Families with Autistic Children Know by Sam Tomlin
Chronically Healthy, Chronically Ill by Aberdeen Livingstone
The Faces of the Bhopal Disaster by Cristiano Denanni
The Return of the Family Doctor by Brewer Eberly
Desire, Use, Repeat by James Mumford
A Disabled Savior by Devan Stahl
In Deep Water off Antarctica by Jessica T. Miskelly
What Is Health? by Peter Mommsen
Following the Clues of the Universe by Alister McGrath
Passing On the Farm to My Daughter by James Rebanks
Warehouse Workers of Paris Find Their Voice by Benoît Gautier
Stanley Hauerwas’s Provocations by Tish Harrison Warren
Building Solidarity in Europe’s Gig Economy by Ben Wray
In the Holy Land, Seeking the Solace of the Cross by Stephanie Saldaña
The Quest to Emancipate Labor by Peter Mommsen
Deerassic Park by Tim Maendel
Sister Penelope in Expectation by Grace Hamman
Should I Read Scary Fairy Tales to My Child? by Stephanie Ebert
Teaching the One Percent by Dhananjay Jagannathan
Jesus Changes Everything: An Afternoon with Stanley Hauerwas
Tell an Old Story for Modern Times by Lisabeth Button
Why We’re Failing to Pass on Christianity by Benjamin Crosby
The School that Escaped to the Alps by Marianne Wright
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future? by Phil Christman
Why I Became a Firefighter by Brit Frazier
Schools for Philosopher-Carpenters by Alex Sosler
Educating for Freedom by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: An Exodus From China by Pan Yongguang
The PloughRead: Paraguayans Don’t Read by Santiago Ramos
The PloughRead: The Busted Bean by Maureen Swinger
The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
The PloughRead: Encounters at the Southern Border by Robert Donnelly
The PloughRead: Jakob Hutter, Radical Reformer by Emmy Barth Maendel
The PloughRead: The Bible’s Story of Freedom by Heinrich Arnold
The PloughRead: Form and Freedom by Joy Marie Clarkson
The PloughRead: Taking Lifelong Vows by Dori Moody
The PloughRead: The Body She Had by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
The PloughRead: Recovering from Heroin and Fiction by Jordan Castro
The PloughRead: Become Slaves to One Another by John M. G. Barclay
The PloughRead: The Workers and the Church by Sohrab Ahmari
The PloughRead: A Lion in Phnom Penh by J. Daniel Sims
The PloughRead: The Autonomy Trap by James R. Wood
The PloughRead: In Defiance of All Powers by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: Tech Cities of the Bible by Alastair Roberts
The PloughRead: Will There Be an AI Apocalypse? by Peter Berkman
The PloughRead: Toward a Gift Economy by Simon Oliver
The PloughRead: Computers Can’t Do Math by David Schaengold
The PloughRead: Give Me a Place by Brian Miller
The PloughRead: The Artificial Pancreas by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: ChatGPT Goes to Church by Arlie Coles
The PloughRead: Taming Tech in Community by Andrew Zimmerman
The PloughRead: Send Us Your Surplus by Matthew Loftus
The PloughRead: From Scrolls to Scrolling in Synagogue by J. L. Wall
The PloughRead: The Tech of Prison Parenting by Robert Lee Williams
82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District
The PloughRead: Why I Hunt by Tim Maendel
The PloughRead: Breakwater by Rhys Laverty
The PloughRead: Lambing Season by Norann Voll
The PloughRead: The Sadness of the Creatures by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: Are You a Tree? by Joy Clarkson
The PloughRead: Meeting the Wolf by Greta Gaffin
The PloughRead: The Leper of Abercuawg by David McBride
81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?
The PloughRead: The Plants Can Talk by William Thomas Okie
The PloughRead: Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm by Colin Boller
The PloughRead: Dandelions: An Apology by Clare Coffey
80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
The PloughRead: Saskatchewan, Promised Land by Daniel J. D. Stulac
The PloughRead: The Wonder of Moths by Caroline Moore
79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament
The PloughRead: Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just Being Nice by Clarence Jordan
78: Worshiping Nature
The PloughRead: Three Pillars of Education by Heinrich Arnold
77: The New Eugenics
The PloughRead: The Joy of Mending Jeans by Leah Libresco Sargeant
The PloughRead: What Is Time For? by Zena Hitz
The PloughRead: The Home You Carry with You by Stephanie Saldaña
76: Restoring a Farm
The PloughRead: Architecture for Humans by Norman Wirzba
The PloughRead: To Mend a Farm by Adam Nicolson
The PloughRead: Ifs Eternally by Christian Wiman
75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?
The PloughRead: Not Everything Can Be Fixed by Carlo Gébler
The PloughRead: Impractical Christianity by Clarence Jordan
The PloughRead: Just Your Handyman by Kurt Armstrong
74: Friends Don’t Let Politics End Friendships
The PloughRead: Zero Episcopalians by Benjamin Crosby
The PloughRead: Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
The PloughRead: In Praise of Repair Culture by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: Demining the Sahara y Maria Novella De Luca, Alice Pistolesi and Monica Pelliccia
The PloughRead: Heaven Meets Earth by Rowan Williams
The PloughRead: Students Brave the Heat by Leah Libresco Sargeant
The PloughRead: Walls behind Bars by Antoine E. Davis and Aaron Olson
The PloughRead: The Witching Hour by Kathleen A. Mulhern
The PloughRead: My Mind, My Enemy by Sarah Clarkson
73: Achieving Disagreement and Other Tips for Political Conversation
The PloughRead: Just Doing What Christians Do by Archbishop Angaelos
The PloughRead: Macedonia Morning by Dana Wiser
72: Tyranny, Inc.
The PloughRead: Hating Sinners by Mary Townsend
The PloughRead: A Russian Christian Speaks Out by Rachel Cañon Naffziger
71: On Giving Up All One’s Money
The PloughRead: Foolhardy Wisdom by Benjamin Crosby
The PloughRead: Tough Love on the Mount by Timothy J. Keiderling
70: How Should Christians Relate to the Consumer Economy?
The PloughRead: Pay As You Can by Robert Lockridge
The PloughRead: The Effective Samaritan, A Parable by Phil Christman
69: Creating Our Identities
The PloughRead: Leper Colony Sketches by Maria Weiss and Maureen Burn
The PloughRead: The Library at Home by Zito Madu
68: The State of the Left
The PloughRead: On Owning Twenty-Two Cars by Maureen Swinger
The PloughRead: Saving the Commons by Jack Bell
PloughCast Bonus Episode: Is Barbie a confused mess or deeply insightful?
The PloughRead: Selling Friends by Clare Coffey
67: David Bentley Hart and the Worship of Mammon
The PloughRead: History Arrives on the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa C. Hayden
66: The Technology of Demons
The PloughRead: The Religion of Mammon by Eberhard Arnold
65: Buying and Selling Friends
The PloughRead: Princess of the Vatican by Sharon Rose Christner
64: Mary of Bethany and the Virtue of Magnificence
The PloughRead: Hudson Taylor by Maureen Swinger and Susannah Black Roberts
63: Phil Christman and Leah Libresco Sargeant on Effective Altruism
The PloughRead: The Other Side of the Needle’s Eye by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: In Praise of Costly Magnificence by Alastair Roberts
62: Is Money Power?
The PloughRead: Two Thousand Years of Christian Strangeness by Tom Holland
61: A Tale of Camels and Needles
An interview with Eugene McCarraher
The PloughRead: The Unutterable Silence of God by Esther Maria Magnis
60: That Hideous Strength Is Nonfiction
The PloughRead: Letters from a Vanishing Friend by Lisabeth Button
59: Churches against the law
The PloughRead: The Mind in Pain by James Mumford
58: James Mumford on God, Politics, Depression, Therapy, and Philosophy
The PloughRead: Saving Friends: What I’ve Learned from Insufferable Patients by Brewer Eberly
57: A Canadian Priest on Medical Assistance in Dying
Baptism Means Leaving Home to Find It by Julian Waldner
56: Felix Manz and the Birth of Anabaptism
The PloughRead: Where Are the Churches in Canada’s Euthanasia Experiment? by Benjamin Crosby
55: L. M. Sacasas on Why We Are Not AIs
The PloughRead: The Speaking Tree by Eleanor Parker
54: Eleanor Parker on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
The PloughRead: God’s Purpose in Your Pain by Rick Warren
53: How to Read the Four Passion Stories
The PloughRead: The Dust on All the Faces by Navid Kermani
52: Oberammergau and the Art of the Passion
The PloughRead: In Search of Solace by Randall Gauger
51: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain
The PloughRead: Fear of a Human Planet by Louise Perry
50: C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
The PloughRead: Somewhere in Chessington by Rhys Laverty
49: Jenn Frey on Liberal Arts
The PloughRead: Daughter of Forgottonia by Liz Schleicher
The PloughRead: Uncle Albert by Springs Toledo
48: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry
47: Technologizing Babies, Forging Nations
46: Spiritual Realism; Jesus and John Wayne
45: Effective Altruism and a Scholarly Inheritance
44: Carl Trueman and Alastair Roberts: Freedom, Belonging, and Begetting
43: The Work of Generations, and the Wisdom of a German Prince
The PloughRead: Is There a Right to Have Children? by Matthew Lee Anderson
The PloughRead: Singing the Law by J. L. Wall
The PloughRead: My Father Left Me Paperclip by Terence Sweeney
The PloughRead: The Sins of the Fathers by Helmuth Eiwen
The PloughRead: The Stranger in My House by Wendy Kiyomi
The PloughRead: Gazapillo by Óscar Esquivias
The PloughRead: Decoding the Bible’s Begats by Alastair Roberts
The PloughRead: Yearning for Roots by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: The Day No One Would Say the Nazis Were Bad by Mary Townsend
The PloughRead: No Promises by Eve Tushnet
The PloughRead: Vows in Brief by Phil Christman
The PloughRead: The Adventure of Obedience by Norann Voll
The PloughRead: Demystifying Chastity by Sr. Carino Hodder, OP
The PloughRead: Why I Chose Poverty by Andreas Knapp
The PloughRead: A Broken but Faithful Marriage by Dori Moody
The PloughRead: A Vow Will Keep You by Randall Gauger
The PloughRead: Victor Hugo’s Masterpiece of Impossibility by Caitrin Keiper
The PloughRead: The Dance of Devotion by Kelsey Osgood
42: Zohar Atkins on Vows in Scripture and the Existentialists, and Listener Questions
41: The World After Roe
40: Hyperpartisanship and Hippocrates
39: On Secular and Religious Disciplines, and the Theology of the Vow
38: Christian Internationalism with John Milbank, and a Bruderhof Journey
37: Vows, Liberty, and Victor Hugo
The PloughRead: Bring Back Hippocrates by Lydia S. Dugdale
The PloughRead: Word Is Bond by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: Tradition and Disruption by David Bentley Hart
The PloughRead: The Spiritual Roots of Climate Crisis by Cardinal Peter Turkson
The PloughRead: The Other Side of Revelation by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
The PloughRead: The Apocalyptic Visions of Wassily Kandinsky by Shira Telushkin
The PloughRead: Jesus and the Future of the Earth by Eberhard Arnold
After Liberalism – What?
The PloughRead: Everything Will Not Be OK by Brandon McGinley
The PloughRead: Syria’s Seed Planters by Mindy Belz
The PloughRead: The New Malthusians by Lyman Stone
The PloughRead: The Sermon of the Wolf by Eleanor Parker
PloughCast Bonus Episode: An Interview with Johnny Cash
The PloughRead: Radical Hope by Peter J. Leithart
The PloughRead: Hoping for Doomsday by Peter Mommsen
36: Technology and Listener Questions
35: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons
34: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation
33: The Case for More Babies
32: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics
31: Hope in Wartime
The PloughRead: In the Aztec Flower Paradise by Joseph Julián González and Monique González
The PloughRead: Music and Morals by Dhananjay Jagannathan
The PloughRead: Go Tell It On the Mountain by Stephen Michael Newby
The PloughRead: The Death and Life of Christian Hardcore by Joseph M. Keegin
The PloughRead: The Strange Love of a Strange God by Esther Maria Magnis
The PloughRead: Is Congregational Singing Dead? by Benjamin Crosby
The PloughRead: Reading the Comments by Phil Christman
The PloughRead: Why We Make Music by Peter Mommsen
The PloughRead: Dolly Parton Is Magnificent by Mary Townsend
The PloughRead: In Search of Eternity by Eugene Vodolazkin
The PloughRead: Doing Bach Badly by Maureen Swinger
30: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A
29: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Philosophy, and Jane Austen
28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly
27: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres
26: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirituals
The PloughRead: The Lion’s Mouth by Edwidge Danticat
25: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Magnificent
The PloughRead: How Funerals Differ by Eugene Vodolazkin
The PloughRead: Stranger in a Strange Land by Kelsey Osgood
The PloughRead: The Art of Disability Parenting by Maureen Swinger
The PloughRead: The Hidden Costs of Prenatal Screening by Sarah C. Williams
The PloughRead: Mary’s Song by Victoria Reynolds Farmer
The PloughRead: The Baby We Kept by Heonju Lee
24: Takeaways: Why Disability is about Being Human
23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body
22: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome
21: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means to Be Human
20: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization
19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood
The PloughRead: The Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee
The PloughRead: The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlöf
The PloughRead: The Quest for Home by Santiago Ramos
The PloughRead: Three Kants and a Thousand Skulls by Simeon Wiehler
The PloughRead: In Search of Lost Fig Trees by Stephanie Saldaña
The PloughRead: The End of Rage by Ashley Lucas
The PloughRead: Home Is Not Just a Place by Edwidge Danticat
The PloughRead: Integrity and the Future of the Church by Russell Moore
18: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other Imponderables.
17: Christian Nationalism
16: The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism
15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism
14: Empire and its Discontents
13: One Cheer for the Nation-State
The PloughRead: Behold the Mandalorian by Josh Seligman
The PloughRead: More Fish Than Sauce by Iván Bernal Marín
The PloughRead: Return to Idaho by Gracy Olmstead
The PloughRead: Writing in the Sand by Christian Wiman
The PloughRead: Love in the Marketplace by Mary Harrington
The PloughRead: Ernest Becker and Our Fear of Death by Kelsey Osgood
12: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Questions
11: Gracy Olmstead on her book Uprooted and Norann Voll on putting down roots in Australia
10: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhumanist Medicine
9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition
8: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment
7: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs
The PloughRead: Let the Body Testify by Leah Libresco Sargeant
The PloughRead: The Minimalist by Springs Toledo
The PloughRead: Call to Prayer, Call to Bread by Rachel Pieh Jones
The PloughRead: Beyond Pacifism by Eberhard Arnold
The PloughRead: With Love We Shall Force Our Brothers by Anthony Barr
The PloughRead: The Risk of Gentleness by Gracy Olmstead
The PloughRead: Behind the Black Umbrellas by Patrick Tomassi
6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Questions
5: From Zurich to Somaliland
4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape
3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat
2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa
1: Political Violence and the White Rose
The PloughRead: Holding Our Own by Shadi Hamid
The PloughRead: The Corporate Parent by Maria Hengeveld
The PloughRead: The Gift of Death by Leslie Verner
The PloughRead: When Dvořák Went to Iowa to Meet God by Nathan Beacom
The PloughRead: Not Just Nuclear by Edwidge Danticat
The PloughRead: The Beautiful Institution by Jonathan Sacks
The PloughRead: The Case for One More Child by Ross Douthat
The PloughRead: Family Matters by Peter Mommsen