Forging Ploughshares

Apr 19 2025 896 ep. 40 mins 45
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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

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Sermon: Why Christ Died

Apr 19 2025 24 mins  
Paul Axton preaches: The theological reason for the death of Christ should begin with the historical reality of what killed him and what he defeated in his death and resurrection; namely Israel, Rome, the law, and the principalities and powers behind the reification of death and law. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

David Cayley on Ivan Illich

Apr 14 2025 82 mins  
The Canadian broadcaster David Cayley describes his groundbreaking interviews with the thinker and theologian Ivan Illich, in which Illich describes how it is the very best, the church, became the very worst, in modernity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: Reconstructing the Temple in Christ: Revelation of Righteousness as Salvation

Apr 12 2025 21 mins  
Paul Axton Preaches: Romans 3:25 is a key verse in determining Christ's relationship to the Temple. Is he a sacrifice of atonement to be fit into the Temple and Law, or is he the (hilasterion) Mercy Seat providing access to revelation of righteousness which is salvation? If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

James Alison on Marriage, Divorce, and Gender

Apr 07 2025 54 mins  
In part 2 of Brad and Paul's conversation with the theologian James Alison, the role of the church in marriage, divorce and the role of Church law are discussed especially as it relates to issues of gender and homosexuality. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: The Nonviolence of Christ as the Final and Full Revelation of God

Apr 05 2025 25 mins  
Paul Axton preaches: What Paul calls the ministry of death, is accentuated and exposed in the murder of Jesus, due to Jesus teaching and action in the Temple. The temple deals in the death of animals, which did not touch upon the deadly attitude of the human heart, and Jewish response to his interruption of the killing is the motive for killing Jesus bring this ministry of death to

James Alison On Shame and the Sexual Crisis in the Church

Mar 31 2025 62 mins  
Brad and Paul interview the Girardian theologian James Alison concerning the pastoral and practical application of Girard, and how this relates to the sexual crisis in Catholicism. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: Beyond Now and Not Yet to the Fullness of Life in Christ

Mar 29 2025 20 mins  
Paul Axton preaches on the inadequacy of now and not yet as a characterization of the Christian life. Victory in Christ holds out a fullness of truth, a complete adoption, and the reality of escaping evil. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Part 2 Anselm Versus Hegel on the Ontological Argument

Mar 24 2025 59 mins  
Anselm's deployment of the ontological argument leads directly to the closed whole of his atonement theory in divine satisfaction, all of which depends upon the reification of language resisted and corrected in Hegel, and noted by Paul. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Sermon: Personal Relationship and Betrayal as Definitive of Salvation and Sin

Mar 22 2025 25 mins  
In the story of the Good Samaritan Jesus sets love above custom, law, and religious institutions but the corruption of this very best also poses the possibility of the very worst, in the words of Ivan Illich, in the institutionalization of the Church. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Wounded Ministers Project

Mar 17 2025 62 mins  
John Pearson describes his work with the homeless and in sustainable farming leading to his work with wounded ministers through Ministry Support Services International https://www.mssint.org/ If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!