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Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

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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 .

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Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

The PloughRead: Paraguayans Don’t Read by Santiago Ramos 08.01.2025

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

The PloughRead: The Busted Bean by Maureen Swinger 01.01.2025

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

The PloughRead: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck 25.12.2024
The PloughRead: Encounters at the Southern Border by Robert Donnelly 18.12.2024

Robert Donnelly meets the migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

The PloughRead: Jakob Hutter, Radical Reformer by Emmy Barth Maendel 11.12.2024

Emmy Barth Maendel describes how, in just three short years, a sixteenth-century martyr founded a church that has endured to this day.

The PloughRead: The Bible’s Story of Freedom by Heinrich Arnold 04.12.2024

Heinrich Arnold describes how scripture tells an unfinished history of liberation.

The PloughRead: Form and Freedom by Joy Marie Clarkson 27.11.2024

Visual artist Hannah Rose Thomas, architect Charles Howell, and poet Malcolm Guite celebrate the freedom of coloring within the lines.

The PloughRead: Taking Lifelong Vows by Dori Moody 20.11.2024

Dori Moody describes how poverty, chastity, and obedience bring a different kind of freedom.

The PloughRead: The Body She Had by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 13.11.2024

Rosemarie Garland Thomson asks why parents are not spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability.

The PloughRead: Recovering from Heroin and Fiction by Jordan Castro 06.11.2024

Jordan Castro describes how he sought freedom in drugs and novels, but they couldn't save him.

The PloughRead: Become Slaves to One Another by John M. G. Barclay 30.10.2024

John M.G. Barclay explores how Paul's letters probe the paradox of freedom through love.

The PloughRead: The Workers and the Church by Sohrab Ahmari 23.10.2024

Sohrab Ahmari asks what happened to the Christian tradition of supporting workers' rights?

The PloughRead: A Lion in Phnom Penh by J. Daniel Sims 16.10.2024

J. Daniel Sims, an insider, reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia’s aid industry.

The PloughRead: The Autonomy Trap by James R. Wood 09.10.2024

James Wood tells his conversion story and asks: Is commitment just for suckers?

The PloughRead: In Defiance of All Powers by Peter Mommsen 02.10.2024

Peter Mommsen asks what's the point of freedom?

The PloughRead: Tech Cities of the Bible by Alastair Roberts 14.08.2024

Alastair Roberts describes how our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.

The PloughRead: Will There Be an AI Apocalypse? by Peter Berkman 07.08.2024

Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.

The PloughRead: Toward a Gift Economy by Simon Oliver 31.07.2024

Simon Oliver argues that some goods and services have value beyond their market price.

The PloughRead: Computers Can’t Do Math by David Schaengold 24.07.2024

David Schaengold argues that computers can’t do math and the human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.

The PloughRead: Give Me a Place by Brian Miller 17.07.2024

Brian Miller, an East Tennessee farmer, praises a simple piece of technology.

The PloughRead: The Artificial Pancreas by Peter Mommsen 10.07.2024

Peter Mommsen asks how we can live well with technology?

The PloughRead: ChatGPT Goes to Church by Arlie Coles 03.07.2024

Arlie Coles asks if large language models should write sermons and prayers.

The PloughRead: Taming Tech in Community by Andrew Zimmerman 26.06.2024

Andrew Zimmerman tells how the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.

The PloughRead: Send Us Your Surplus by Matthew Loftus 19.06.2024

Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.

The PloughRead: From Scrolls to Scrolling in Synagogue by J. L. Wall 12.06.2024

J. L. Wall describes how the way we read scripture has changed and the way that it has remained the same.

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