Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Episodes
The PloughRead: The Other Side of Revelation by Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz writes on John’s Revelation, apocalypse, fear, and why there is still hope.
The PloughRead: The Apocalyptic Visions of Wassily Kandinsky by Shira Telushkin
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The artwork of Wassily Kandinsky reveals his apocalyptic visions. Shira Telushkin reviews the Around the Circle exhibit of Kandinsky’s art at the Gu...
The PloughRead: Jesus and the Future of the Earth by Eberhard Arnold
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eberhard Arnold tells how the first Christians viewed the end of the age.
After Liberalism – What?
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susannah Black Roberts, Peter Mommsen, Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic talk about Yoram Hazony’s National Conservative Statement of Principles, John M...
The PloughRead: Everything Will Not Be OK by Brandon McGinley
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Mcginley, a father of young children, shares insights on whether or not to shield kids from tragic news.
The PloughRead: Syria’s Seed Planters by Mindy Belz
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mindy Belz reports on Syrian refugees after the war with ISIS, who returned home to start over.
The PloughRead: The New Malthusians by Lyman Stone
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lyman Stone explores Malthusianism past and present, and why its proponents are wrong.
The PloughRead: The Sermon of the Wolf by Eleanor Parker
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Parker writes about the sermon of Wulfstan, a bishop at a time when the Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chao...
PloughCast Bonus Episode: An Interview with Johnny Cash
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio shares an interview from 1972, in which Johnny Cash talks about faith and music – and then breaks into song.
The PloughRead: Radical Hope by Peter J. Leithart
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Leithart says our world may be dying, but churches should cultivate radical hope for the birth of a new one.
The PloughRead: Hoping for Doomsday by Peter Mommsen
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mommsen writes on climate change, the meaning of apocalypse, and the reasons we still have hope.
36: Technology and Listener Questions
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah discuss with L. M. Sacasas the perils and promise of technology: how it shapes our lives and how it changes how we think about ours...
35: War, Peace, and Nuclear Weapons
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah talk with Christopher Tollefsen about his piece on the history and ethics of nuclear deterrence, and the prospect of an antinuclear...
34: Classics, Race, and Religious Reconciliation
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah welcome Kim Comer, the editor of Plough’s European edition, and discuss the origins of the new Bruderhof communities in Austria. ...
33: The Case for More Babies
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah talk with demographer Lyman Stone about falling birthrates and what humans need to thrive enough to have children. They discuss Tho...
32: Vikings, a Bishop, and Apocalyptic Comics
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah speak with Eleanor Parker about Archbishop Wulfstan and his sermon in 1014 calling the English to return to fidelity with God and e...
31: Hope in Wartime
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susannah and Peter discuss Peter’s lead editorial, “Hoping for Doomsday,” and cover some of the mysteries at the heart of Apocalypse: is it the ...
The PloughRead: In the Aztec Flower Paradise by Joseph Julián González and Monique González
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Julián González and Monique González write that for the ancient Nahua and Aztec poets, the way to the holy runs through beauty. Read the art...
The PloughRead: Music and Morals by Dhananjay Jagannathan
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dhananjay Jagannathan writes on good and bad music, morals, and why the sheer vitality of music can seem to spell danger. Read the article.
The PloughRead: Go Tell It On the Mountain by Stephen Michael Newby
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Composer Steven Michael Newby says African American spirituals aren’t just for Black churches. They are for everybody. Read the article.
The PloughRead: The Death and Life of Christian Hardcore by Joseph M. Keegin
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph M. Keegin explores Christian Hardcore music and its undoing. Read the article.
The PloughRead: The Strange Love of a Strange God by Esther Maria Magnis
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this article drawn from her memoir With or Without Me, Esther Maria Magnis tells how her prayers were not answered when her father got cancer. Or w...
The PloughRead: Is Congregational Singing Dead? by Benjamin Crosby
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Crosby on how hymn singing can help revive a culture of communal music. Read the article.
The PloughRead: Reading the Comments by Phil Christman
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Christman finds community and catharsis in the YouTube comments to Joy Division and other post punk and new wave music. Read the article.
The PloughRead: Why We Make Music by Peter Mommsen
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mommsen on how singing and making (not just listening to) music shapes the soul. Read the article.
The PloughRead: Dolly Parton Is Magnificent by Mary Townsend
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Townsend on how the excellence of Dolly Parton helps her students understand Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics. Read the article.
The PloughRead: In Search of Eternity by Eugene Vodolazkin
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this excerpt from his novel Brisbane, Eugene Vodolazkin’s character Gleb Yanovsky quits music school because “we’re all going to die.” Read...
The PloughRead: Doing Bach Badly by Maureen Swinger
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When our amateur choir sings Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, the music’s power overwhelms our mistakes.
30: Liberal Arts for Everyone, Plus Q & A
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah talk with friend of the pod Zena Hitz, author of Lost in Thought, about the state of the liberal arts, how those not in academia ca...
29: Finding Joy: Music, Community, Practical Philosophy, and Jane Austen
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah talk with Joey Keegin and Phil Christman about their pieces on Christian hardcore and ’80s, ’90s post-punk respectively. The bl...
28: Rowan Williams, Shakespeare, and Doing Bach Badly
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah have a long, polyphonic conversation with Rowan Williams about his new collection of plays, Shakeshafte and Other Plays; about a Ch...
27: Atheism, Dante, and the Music of the Spheres
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah speak with Esther Maria Magnis about her recent Plough release With or Without Me, a memoir of her father’s death from cancer and...
The PloughRead: The Lion’s Mouth by Edwidge Danticat
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edwidge Danticat on the way mass shootings have made violent death seem normal, and how to resist it. Read the article.
26: Why You Should Chant Psalms and Sing Spirituals
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah chat with Brittany Petruzzi about her interview with Susannah in the current issue of the magazine, Chanting Psalms In the Dark. Du...
25: Singing in Dungeons; and Dolly Parton Is Magnificent
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah open the Music issue podcast series with a discussion of Anabaptist music: the beautiful and occasionally grim songs of the Radical...
The PloughRead: How Funerals Differ by Eugene Vodolazkin
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russian novelist Eugene Vodolazkin finds the ludicrous and the heartening even in the funeral of his own father. Read the article here.
The PloughRead: Stranger in a Strange Land by Kelsey Osgood
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kelsey Osgood on looking for Jewish community, still finding that her family is set apart, and wondering how much to let the world in. Read it here.
The PloughRead: The Art of Disability Parenting by Maureen Swinger
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to raise a child with profound physical disabilities? Six mothers around the world talk about the hard days... and the amazing ones. ...
The PloughRead: The Hidden Costs of Prenatal Screening by Sarah C. Williams
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At twenty weeks there were only two things I knew about my daughter, both of them scientifically derived facts: her physical abnormality and her biolo...
The PloughRead: Mary’s Song by Victoria Reynolds Farmer
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Reynolds Farmer on the Magnificat and how her disability taught her to trust a God who raises up the weak and brings down the mighty. Read i...
The PloughRead: The Baby We Kept by Heonju Lee
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Faced with a frightening diagnosis, a couple was hours away from an abortion when one conversation made them reconsider. Their daughter owes her life ...
24: Takeaways: Why Disability is about Being Human
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah answer listener questions: How should we think about the so-called “social model” of disability? Why shouldn’t we abort child...
23: Resident Aliens and the Illiberalism of the Body
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah discuss Kelsey Osgood’s piece “Stranger in a Strange Land” with her, about her adult conversion to Orthodox Judaism and her f...
22: Velvet Eugenics and Parenting Kids with Down Syndrome
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Susannah speak with Emory bioethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson about her ongoing philosophical journey into bioethical questions, and her cr...
21: Disability, Embodiment, and What It Means to Be Human
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susannah and Peter talk with O. Carter Snead about his book What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. They examine the que...
20: Suffering, Reality, and Rehumanization
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah discuss Aimee Murphy’s Rehumanize, an organization dedicated to a consistent life ethic, and the intersection between the pro-lif...
19: On Ability and Disability, Personhood and Motherhood
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah discuss Peter’s lead editorial, describing his friendship with and care for a profoundly disabled young man. They consider the si...
The PloughRead: The Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three boys play the Three Kings who deliver gifts on the eve of Epiphany. But what will they give the poor children they pass on the street? A delight...
The PloughRead: The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlöf
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This story is one of several Swedish legends explaining why the Christmas Rose blooms in winter.
The PloughRead: The Quest for Home by Santiago Ramos
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Santiago Ramos on his outsiderness, the double homelessness immigrants live with that points to the eternal home. Read it here: https://www.plough.co...
The PloughRead: Three Kants and a Thousand Skulls by Simeon Wiehler
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simeon Wiehler, university dean in Rwanda, reflects on cruelty and healing in a land scarred by genocide, drawing on philosopher Immanuel Kant; Richar...
The PloughRead: In Search of Lost Fig Trees by Stephanie Saldaña
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Far from home, one father transplants fig trees. Another crafts chocolates. A third creates places of welcome. Stephanie Saldaña, Naomi Shihab Nye, a...
The PloughRead: The End of Rage by Ashley Lucas
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Lucas on the story of Russell Maroon Shoatz, a former Black Panther who spent three decades in solitary confinement, and the reckoning with vio...
The PloughRead: Home Is Not Just a Place by Edwidge Danticat
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edwidge Danticat on the stories that anchor us, the homes we build with words that no separation can take away. Read it here: http://www.plough.com/e...
The PloughRead: Integrity and the Future of the Church by Russell Moore
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Moore discusses the future of Christianity and the church in a rapidly secularizing society. He explores why young people in particular are “...
18: Are National Borders Unchristian? And Other Imponderables.
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah tackle our hardest listener questions: What are your hesitations about Christendom? Do you think that all national borders are unch...
17: Christian Nationalism
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah discuss Christian nationalism, and whether there might be a good version of this thing which so many books have recently been at pa...
16: The End of Rage: Prison & Radicalism
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1972, Russell Maroon Shoatz went to prison for the murder of a police officer. He spent 29 years in solitary confinement. Ashley Lucas, whose own f...
15: On Rooted Cosmopolitanism
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah welcome Tara Isabella Burton and Dhananjay Jagannathan to discuss the intersections of their recent pieces. Tara’s cosmopolitan u...
14: Empire and its Discontents
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah speak with novelist, journalist, and Iraq vet Phil Klay about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the folly of nation-building, and...
13: One Cheer for the Nation-State
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are national cultures something God values? What do we owe the sojourner? And is there something to this idea of Christendom? In this episode of The ...
The PloughRead: Behold the Mandalorian by Josh Seligman
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Father–son relationships in The Mandalorian and Return of the Jedi sagas illustrate meekness as a healthy model for manhood. Manly Virtues by Noah V...
The PloughRead: More Fish Than Sauce by Iván Bernal Marín
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beneath Panama City’s gleaming skyscrapers, traditional fishermen still venture out to sea for a hard-won catch.
The PloughRead: Return to Idaho by Gracy Olmstead
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When I went back to Idaho, I connected with more than just the land.” An excerpt from Gracy Olmstead’s Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the P...
The PloughRead: Writing in the Sand by Christian Wiman
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Wiman reads the parable of Jesus writing in the sand as poetry, and unpacks poetry of doubt and faith by Yehuda Amichai, Kay Ryan, and Les M...
The PloughRead: Love in the Marketplace by Mary Harrington
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Harrington on what’s for sale on online dating sites.
The PloughRead: Ernest Becker and Our Fear of Death by Kelsey Osgood
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker says it’s in our nature to fear death – and to transcend that fear of death through faith.
12: Can Nature Be Evil? and Other Listener Questions
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah address listener questions. First, what do we make of natural evil? Things like parasites seem to call into question the idea of na...
11: Gracy Olmstead on her book Uprooted and Norann Voll on putting down roots in Australia
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Susannah speak with Gracy Olmstead about her new book Uprooted. In this age of unrootedness, what does it mean to have a home – to be from ...
10: Amish Regenerative Agriculture and Transhumanist Medicine
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Susannah discuss Pater Edmund Waldstein’s piece “Lords of Nature.” What does it mean to respect the nature of human beings, including t...
9: Sohrab Ahmari, Ernest Becker, and the Meaning of Tradition
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Susannah discuss Kelsey Osgood’s piece on Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death. How did Becker, as a Jew struggling through secularism, face ...
8: Animal Slaughter, Online Dating, and Embodiment
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter and Susannah talk about Mary Harrington’s piece on the business of online dating. What happens when butchering is removed from the marketpla...
7: Dogs, Ross Douthat, and UFOs
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can nature teach us how to live, or is the universe random and meaningless? In the first episode of The PloughCast’s new 6-part series about nature ...
The PloughRead: Let the Body Testify by Leah Libresco Sargeant
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Libresco Sargeant offers a feminist critique of how modern society pushes women to change their bodies, in an essay that also covers anorexia, su...
The PloughRead: The Minimalist by Springs Toledo
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Springs Toledo on his defeat to and friendship with the boxer Stonewall Strickland.
The PloughRead: Call to Prayer, Call to Bread by Rachel Pieh Jones
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eighteen years among Somali Muslims in the Horn of Africa have taught an American Christian that Islam’s five pillars apply to Christianity as well....
The PloughRead: Beyond Pacifism by Eberhard Arnold
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can it ever be a Christian’s duty to kill? For Plough’s founding editor Eberhard Arnold, this question goes to the core of the meaning of Christia...
The PloughRead: With Love We Shall Force Our Brothers by Anthony Barr
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The love of the peacemaker is a love that has force, that will not accept the injustices of the status quo.” Anthony Barr on love and justice thr...
The PloughRead: The Risk of Gentleness by Gracy Olmstead
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gracy Olmstead on welcoming the baby she did not want.
The PloughRead: Behind the Black Umbrellas by Patrick Tomassi
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Tomassi discusses the definition of violence with Portland’s Antifa movement, the local Proud Boys, and some of the people caught in between...
6: Does Just War ever work? & other Listener Questions
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode included an Anabaptist and an Anglican in conversation as they attempted to address listener questions include the following: I'm convinc...
5: From Zurich to Somaliland
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Manz was the first martyr of the Radical Reformation, drowned by his fellow Christians for performing adult baptisms. His story is a story of a ...
4: Unplanned Pregnancy and Rap as Escape
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This time last year, Plough contributing editor Gracy Olmstead, unexpectedly, found that she was pregnant. With two toddler daughters and the Covid pa...
3: The ScottCast & Rhina Espaillat
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An excerpt from Scott Beauchamp’s memoir of his time in the military, Did You Kill Anyone? highlights what it was that he found in his service: mean...
2: Beyond Pacifism and Debating Antifa
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1920, Eberhard Arnold founded both the Bruderhof and the magazine and publishing house that are now called Plough. From the beginning, Christian no...
1: Political Violence and the White Rose
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This time last year, almost everyone was convinced that, here in the USA, we don’t do political violence: we solve our political problems without bl...
The PloughRead: Holding Our Own by Shadi Hamid
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For American Muslims, embracing their role as a creative minority may prove their greatest source of strength, allowing them to carve out a small spac...
The PloughRead: The Corporate Parent by Maria Hengeveld
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Hengeveld reports on the legal challenges to Unilever surrounding an attack on its Kenyan workers, and the implications for corporate social res...
The PloughRead: The Gift of Death by Leslie Verner
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Observing the death of a dear friend, Leslie Verner reflects on chronos (clock time) versus kairos, moments that reveal what truly matters. She draws ...
The PloughRead: When Dvořák Went to Iowa to Meet God by Nathan Beacom
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony, written on his journey through America, expresses many layers of homesickness: the composer’s for his moth...
The PloughRead: Not Just Nuclear by Edwidge Danticat
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edwidge Danticat: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn.
The PloughRead: The Beautiful Institution by Jonathan Sacks
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on the story of marriage in seven key moments. A meditation and midrash on evolution, monogamy in the Bible, the Genesis Cre...
The PloughRead: The Case for One More Child by Ross Douthat
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Douthat: Our society’s future would be radically different if people simply had as many kids as they desire. What’s stopping them?
The PloughRead: Family Matters by Peter Mommsen
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mommsen introduces Plough Quarterly 26 in an editorial: What are families for?