Forging Ploughshares

Jon and Paul discuss gender reassignment surgery and issues of gender and possible theological approaches to the subject. Jon explains the fully affirming Episcopal perspective and the parameters and limitations of that perspective. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton preaches - In this secular age the experience of God may be lost, as Paul describes, due to a pursuit of human wisdom and signs. But in Christ the fulness of divine experience opens all of life to the fulness of a different reality and experience. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Jordan Wood, a former member of the Hart team, departs from David Bentley Hart. Topics covered include God's simplicity, God's relation to time, sociology's uncreated and created aspects, theological conversations and accessible writing, Liberty stories and piano playing, reflections on conversion, reincarnation, and cemetery plots, and the pleasure of crafting sentences and making fun.

Paul Axton preaches - Is the incarnation finished with the resurrection and ascension of Christ or is this now an eternal fact about God and reality? There is a form of Christianity that posits a complete divide between faith and practice, body and soul, and heaven and earth (implicitly or explicitly assuming the incarnation is provisional) which misses the beauty of God revealed in the world and real world defeat of evil.  Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Matt and Paul discuss the UFO phenomenon with Ambrose Andreano, who has written the book Angels, Archons and Aliens. Some of the the explanations for the phenomena and possible implications are considered. Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.  

Paul Axton preaches - The portrayal in each of the resurrection appearances is grief, initial misrecognition of Jesus, and then a shift in perspective. It is within this shifted perspective that the gospel is proclaimed, the New Testament is written, the church is formed, and two thousand years of witnesses come forth.  Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Paul Axton preaches - Colossians poses the incarnation of Christ and redemption as the true creation and the true beginning, in which Genesis 2 is made a reality and the false creation and incarnation of Genesis 3 is suspended. Register now For the Class Marginalization and Restorative Justice https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Matt and Paul discuss with Jon the upcoming class, Marginalization and Restorative Justice: A biblical and theological study of the Kingdom of God - an approach to issues of power and inequality among oppressed groups including gender, race, disability, and socio-economic status. Register now for the class https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Jordan Wood discusses his departure from David Bentley Hart, focusing on the person of Christ, panentheism, and the role of nature and grace in Maximus. They explore the teachings of Maximus on nature and grace, admire each other's writing, and delve into historical perspectives on focusing on Christ and the incarnation. They also discuss the editing process, the challenges of being theologians, and Forging Plow Shares' resources.

Paul Axton preaches - The book of Philemon is a worked example of the implication of the gospel in that the slave/master relationship is displaced in the church by the koinonia of brothers and sisters. Yet this obvious implication of the gospel, worked out in Philemon, is rejected as is indicated in the reception of the book and the continuation of slavery among Christians. This may be because the implication of the gospel is a complete overturning of the city, the law, and the economy of the the city of man. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.