Forging Ploughshares

Paul & Hayden continue their discussion of "The Tree of Life" and focus in on the films portrayal of the problem of evil and its depiction of a resolution.     Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In Part I of a two part discussion, Hayden and Paul discuss the prayer like film, "The Tree of Life" and draw out the theological implications of the role of nature and grace in the life of the O'Briens.     Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Jason and Paul continue their discussion of the role of narrative and poetry. In this discussion they focus on the power of narrative to capture the complete portrait of life, inclusive of death.     Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Jason and Paul discuss the primary role of poems and stories in capturing reality - the reality of injustices and the prime reality of simple beauty. Deploying the work of Wendell Berry and selections from their own writings they discuss how these poems and stories capture key lessons which tune us in to the primary reality of life.    Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this lecture Paul Axton introduces the first comprehensive post-liberal theology - the work of James McClendon. McClendon moves beyond the controversies of modernity to a theology which builds upon the interpretive insights of the early Church.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - "God's anger, is at one with his love; so, too, God's mercy and his justice are one and the same. Mercy and punishment are not opposed; for punishment - the consuming fire - is a means to an end, that we might be the creatures he intended us to be. God's punishment, his justice, can be his most merciful act."    Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound  

Matt, John, and Paul, discuss the early Orthodox understanding that Jesus is the revelation of the immanent Trinity and the wide ramifications this has for the doctrine of God and theological anthropology.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches - This verse speaks of three different groups or three different types of people. We can trace three psychological types which correspond to these three orientations. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the interaction of Christ with culture by using Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, displaced by Christ, as an example of how the violence of Christ filters out evil and lifts up the good. In part 2 we focus in on what it might mean to be a Christian in America. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - In Chapter 1 of Ephesians Paul has described a world built upon Jesus Christ. In chapter 2 he begins to contrast this with a world controlled by the Prince of this world. The truth and morality of the one is pitted against the other. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound  

Matt, Jon, and Paul discuss the interaction of Christ with culture by using Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, displaced by Christ, as an example of how Christ filters out evil and lifts up the good.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - For Paul, Christ is Jesus – the reality of the one is inseparable from the other. It is not that Jesus is one phase of the making of the Christ. The truth of God, the truth of the world is found in the incarnation. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Dylan and Kylie, two of our Forging Ploughshares community, are starting a special home here in Moberly. Dylan describes their journey and the nature of their vision.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches - Certainly, salvation is the overcoming of sin but the fullness of redemption is the completion of creation’s purpose. Paul has moved our understanding of God’s plan beyond the earth and the human race to its cosmic impact as part of the outworking of the love (the very essence) of God. The whole point of who God is and what God is doing in creation is summed up in the incarnate Christ (1:10).    Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In the conclusion to a discussion on modern experiential reality Jon, Matt, and Paul, describe the peculiar role of Eastern Orthodoxy in contrast to Protestantism and Roman Catholic thought impacted by nominalism and the rise of the peculiarities of the secular in the West.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Ephesians describes a different experiential reality. To get at this understanding we need to redo the deep grammar from which our experience flows. This will include a reworking of the category of eternity and our relationship to that category.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this introduction to describing this place we have come to in modernity Jon, Matt, and Paul discuss the role of nominalism in Protestantism and Roman Catholic thought and the rise of the secular in modernity.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

The heart of the New Testament is a theology of new creation through resurrection: God affirms the goodness of the created order, and affirms he is makeing itanew, starting with the physical body of Jesus Himself.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this lecture Paul Axton describes the formation of desire from a biblical and Lacanian perspective and links this to idolatrous religion and human angst, both of which are defeated in putting on the image of Christ. This piece is part of the larger picture of religion being put together in the upcoming class for which you can register here at the bottom of the page - https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/lm/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this conversation Jason and Paul touch upon the issues of religious sacrifice, nationalism, orientalism, and the primary role that violence and peace play in the confrontation between the kingdom of Christ and the principalities and powers. The upcoming course World Culture and Religion will take up these issues in depth.   Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound