YIMBY Nation is a podcast that brings unique perspectives from people who have served in the fields of advocacy, activism, non-profit, public, and the private development of affordable housing. We are driven by our passion for community empowerment, economic development, and residents' self-sufficiency in the transformation of underserved, low- and moderate-income communities.
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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 Roberts dig deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
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Sullivan and Son: Behind The Bar" is the official podcast of the TBS sitcom, "Sullivan and Son." Hosted by writer Caleb Bacon and recorded at Stage 10 at Warner Bros Studio, Sullivan and Son: Behind The Bar, is a new podcast that gets to better know the fictional Pittsburgh bar's cast of characters and some of the behind the scenes talent. This podcast is a mix of drinking stories, barroom chatter, and a chance to spend more time with the sitcom's stars. Sullivan and Son is produced by Vince ...
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J. Daniel Sims, an insider, reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia’s aid industry.Από τον Plough
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James Wood tells his conversion story and asks: Is commitment just for suckers?Από τον Plough
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The Impact of Access: How Connecticut Is Helping Neighborhoods Thrive Through Investing In Innovation, Gender Parity, Family Services, and Small and Minority-Owned Businesses
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Send us a text Connecticut is fast becoming the modern template for long-term growth and sustainability, particularly for its approach to gender, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and for how it plans to build the State by investing in innovation at all levels (not just big corporations and entities). Today, we are honored to welcome Connecticut'…
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Peter Mommsen asks what's the point of freedom?Από τον Plough
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Alastair Roberts describes how our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.Από τον Plough
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Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.Από τον Plough
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Simon Oliver argues that some goods and services have value beyond their market price.Από τον Plough
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David Schaengold argues that computers can’t do math and the human mind is a marvel that no machine has matched.Από τον Plough
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Brian Miller, an East Tennessee farmer, praises a simple piece of technology.Από τον Plough
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Send us a text It is often said that where you find food insecurity, you will also find housing insecurity. Today’s conversation focuses on enhancing our communities' quality of life by examining the role housing plays in food security. We are joined by Khaatim Sherrer El, whose work is vital to today’s topic. He is the Executive Director of Clinto…
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Peter Mommsen asks how we can live well with technology?Από τον Plough
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Arlie Coles asks if large language models should write sermons and prayers.Από τον Plough
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Andrew Zimmerman tells how the Bruderhof community tries to be intentional about personal technology.Από τον Plough
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Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.Από τον Plough
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J. L. Wall describes how the way we read scripture has changed and the way that it has remained the same.Από τον Plough
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Robert Lee Williams tells how even a little tech in prison can make a big difference.Από τον Plough
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82: Regenerative Agriculture in the Lake District
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James and Helen Rebanks talk about raising sheep and cattle in the Lake District. James describes the landscape where their families have lived for six hundred years, and how they have begun practicing regenerative agriculture as a way of restoring the land that recent conventional agriculture had damaged. He gives details about the sheep and cattl…
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Tim Maendel describes his love of hunting and the connection it gives him to the human species' natural history.Από τον Plough
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Season 2 Episode 2: Breaking the Cycle: How The Fight for Housing Stability Can Change the Course of Health Outcomes
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Send us a text How access to quality housing intersects with quality of life such as better health results. Joining us to explore this topic is Gillian Pressman, Managing Director at YIMBY Action. To kick off our conversation, Gillian shares how YIMBY Action is working to legalize housing and remove barriers to affordable housing. We discuss the fa…
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Rhys Laverty writes about the Alderney Breakwater, a crumbling jetty in the Channel Islands that protects a way of life.Από τον Plough
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Norann Voll learned some of life’s most important lessons from her father while caring for sheep.Από τον Plough
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Peter Mommsen asks if humans should live by the laws of nature.Από τον Plough
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In an excerpt from her book, Joy Marie Clarkson explores the natural metaphors that we use. Are you a tree, she asks, or are you a potted plant?Από τον Plough
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Greta Gaffin asks if humans should return to nature, and looks to the lives of two saints who taught us to make peace with it instead.Από τον Plough
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David McBride introduces his new translation of The Leper of Abercuawg, a thousand-year-old Welsh poem in which an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.Από τον Plough
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Joy Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor. Why are metaphors important? How can they help us live well – and how can they go wrong? Why should we not think of ourselves as computers? And what does all this mean for our language about God? In the discussion, Joy and Susannah range widely through topics including apophatic t…
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William Thomas Okie says plants can talk; but is anyone listening?Από τον Plough
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Colin Boller explains how regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.Από τον Plough
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Clare Coffey gives a defense of the dandelion, the plant that always comes back.Από τον Plough
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80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
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Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and technology. Susannah chimes in. Is J. R. R. Tolkien anti-technology? What is the relationship between magic and technology in the world of the Lord of the Rings, and in ours? What do the elves have to do with that? What can we tell by looking at the rings, the palantíri, the silmarils? Shou…
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Daniel J. D. Stulac, a newcomer to Saskatchewan, searches for the Old Testament promise.Από τον Plough
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Caroline Moore has studied moths since she was a child. She writes how they showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.Από τον Plough
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79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament
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Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament. Jesus expected his followers to know that he was going to have to die and would then be resurrected – but, famously, they didn’t figure it out until it happened. What were Jewish expectations of resurrection, and where is the idea found in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible? Al…
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Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) argued that true Christian fellowship as practiced by the early church demands sharing of material possessions, distribution of those goods, and racial equality.Από τον Plough
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Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not a guide to what is good. The idea that the natural world is to be worshiped can take many forms. Douthat and Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts discuss these forms, ranging from Wordsworthian spiritual experiences in a national park, to worshiping ancestral or local gods, to civic religions of…
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Season 2 Episode 1: ‘Unequal Ground’: The Impact of Unjust Policies on Access to Educational Opportunities, Upward Mobility, and Better Quality of Life
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Send us a text The housing and communities that people live in can influence nearly every aspect of their lives; from where they work to how they get there, the quality of the schools in their area, and even their longevity. Today, we take a deep dive into how zoning, land use policies, and efforts like NIMBYism affect affordability, equality in ed…
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Heinrich Arnold writes that in the Bruderhof, as in any society, children flourish when family, school, and community align.Από τον Plough
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77: The New Eugenics
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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin discuss euthanasia and eugenics. What has happened in the law and society in Canada since 2016 such that MAID has exploded, becoming one of the most common causes of death there? What is the relationship of national healthcare to this expansion? Alexander Raikin brings in a review of the statistics ove…
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Leah Libresco Sargeant writes about Grace Russo and her philosophy of mending clothes with beauty.Από τον Plough
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Zena Hitz on our time, its value, and how we might spend it if we had more of it.Από τον Plough
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Stephanie Saldaña writes that though the members of her church have been scattered by war, the church lives on.Από τον Plough
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Adam Nicolson has been rehabilitating his farm in Sussex for many years now, and he discusses the difficulties and rewards of this, and the piece that he wrote about it for Plough’s issue on repair. They go on to discuss the topics of some of Nicolson’s books: Sissinghurst, the farm and garden owned by Nicolson’s grandmother, Vita Sackville-West; H…
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Norman Wirzba writes that our homes and workplaces should nurture and celebrate life.Από τον Plough
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Adam Nicolson tells of reversing the destructive agricultural damage done to his farm in the past.Από τον Plough
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Christian Wiman writes that the “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.Από τον Plough
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Zohar Atkins discusses the real meaning of tikkun olam. Susannah and Zohar discuss the contemporary progressive vision of this idea, which means (or does it?) “to repair the world.” Where did that contemporary interpretation come from? And what was the original meaning? They go through the Rabbinic concept of Tikkun as equity, as a kind of emergenc…
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Carlo Gébler writes that we should try to repair the lives of others, even if things in our own lives seem broken.Από τον Plough
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Words written by Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a pacifist interracial Christian community in Georgia, taken from a Plough book, The Inconvenient Gospel.Από τον Plough
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Kurt Armstrong writes that not everyone can build skyscrapers; someone has to address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.Από τον Plough
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Matthew Sitman and Sohrab Ahmari discuss friendship across political divides. Both men have made their careers in political media and have made significant changes in their politics over the course of their lives – in Sohrab’s case, very publicly. These changes have affected some friendships and have left others intact. Sohrab and Matt and Susannah…
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