74 episodes
The PloughCast Plough
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 19 Ratings
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How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? What about technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family? Is another life possible? Plough editor Peter Mommsen and senior editor Susannah Black dig deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
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The PloughRead: The Strange Love of a Strange God by Esther Maria Magnis
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 were they?
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The PloughRead: Is Congregational Singing Dead? by Benjamin Crosby
Benjamin Crosby on how hymn singing can help revive a culture of communal music.
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The PloughRead: Reading the Comments by Phil Christman
Phil Christman finds community and catharsis in the YouTube comments to Joy Division and other post punk and new wave music.
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The PloughRead: Why We Make Music by Peter Mommsen
Peter Mommsen on how singing and making (not just listening to) music shapes the soul.
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The PloughRead: Dolly Parton Is Magnificent by Mary Townsend
Mary Townsend on how the excellence of Dolly Parton helps her students understand Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics.
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The PloughRead: In Search of Eternity by Eugene Vodolazkin
In this excerpt from his novel Brisbane, Eugene Vodolazkin’s character Gleb Yanovsky quits music school because “we’re all going to die.”
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Customer Reviews
Less Russell Moore please
Susannah is great. The rest is tolerable. Russell Moore is painful.