To live in better we have to begin with the conviction that another life is possible. That is what this podcast aims to explore. In today's inaugural episode, Joy interviews Plough Editor-in-chief Peter Mommsen, and senior editor Maureen Swinger and her husband, Jason. View the transcript Learn more: plough.com/podcast
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
Sharon could hardly leave the house. She showed me the wonder and limits of therapy.
After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
Living with a chronic illness, I’ve traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.
Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.
My grandfather’s best summer was the one he spent dying.
Can Sherlock Holmes help us find meaning in life? Detective stories and murder mysteries hint at how to make sense of our world.
A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
In de-industrializing France, a shuttle bus is workers’ last link to stability.
America’s theologian isn’t worried about the death of cultural Christianity.
Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses.
In a year wracked by violence, I remember the crucifixion to find comfort.