The PloughCast
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A Plough Quarterly Podcast
- 44 minutes 39 secondsAn Artist Reinterprets Classic Nature Poems
Julian Peters, the comic artist behind Plough’s new anthology of nature poems, talks to Joy Clarkson. Read transcript here.
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24 March 2026, 4:00 am - 35 minutes 35 secondsA Season of Unveiling
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.
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3 March 2026, 9:24 am - 45 minutes 31 secondsOn Beauty and Justice
Makoto Fujimura, Haejin Fujimura and Joy Marie Clarkson discuss how art can serve as a means of envisioning a just future.
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17 February 2026, 5:00 am - 48 minutes 46 secondsIn Defense of Iconoclasm
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.
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3 February 2026, 5:00 am - 50 minutes 44 secondsUnexpected Beauty
Brandon Vaidyanathan: I discovered beauty through betrayal by my girlfriend, studying business, and my mother's mental illness.
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20 January 2026, 5:00 am - 41 minutes 53 secondsHow Does Scripture Talk About Beauty?
In a new season of the Another Life podcast, Joy Marie Clarkson and Ben Quash look at beauty in the Old and New Testaments.
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6 January 2026, 2:44 pm - 1 hour 59 minutesBonus episode: Paul Kingsnorth gives a talk called “Six Ways to Resist the Machine”
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.
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30 December 2025, 3:43 pm - 56 minutes 20 secondsHumans Aren’t the Only Pebble on the Cosmic Beach
Joy Marie Clarkson and Alison Milbank discuss the importance of angels and why parishes are good.
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9 December 2025, 5:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesWhen You Believe in a Living God
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.
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25 November 2025, 5:00 am - 48 minutes 34 secondsThe Collective Burden of War
US Marines veteran Phil Klay talks to Joy Clarkson about going to war, honor, penance, and the burden we should all share.
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11 November 2025, 5:00 am - 1 hour 23 secondsWhy Are People Returning to Church?
We are seeing an unexpected resurgence of openness to God and spiritual matters, and an uptick in religious participation. What’s behind it?
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