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.
Episodes
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Mar 24, 2026 • 45min
An 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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Mar 3, 2026 • 36min
A 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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Feb 17, 2026 • 46min
On 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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Feb 3, 2026 • 49min
In 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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Jan 20, 2026 • 51min
Unexpected Beauty
Brandon Vaidyanathan: I discovered beauty through betrayal by my girlfriend, studying business, and my mother's mental illness.
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Jan 6, 2026 • 42min
How 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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Dec 30, 2025 • 1h 59min
Bonus 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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Dec 9, 2025 • 56min
Humans 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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Nov 25, 2025 • 1h 7min
When 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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Nov 11, 2025 • 49min
The 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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