Forging Ploughshares

In Part I of this two part discussion, Megan, Jon, Jason, and Paul come to grips with why people are taken in by conspiracy theories, identity politics, and the theological failure and theological answers that might explain this present moment. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches: The recent attack on the Capitol and the religion that supports this nationalism has parallels to German Christian thought and the rise of Hitler. Paul is describing the defeat of this death dealing orientation. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this PBI discussion, Jon joins Matt, Tim, and Paul in a continued conversation of how to get beyond modernist, Hegelian, dialectic thought and hermeneutics by returning to the early church's approach to Scripture. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In a PBI Course discussion, Tim, Matt, and Paul discuss a reading of Scripture that harmonizes Old Testament violence with the peace of Christ by focusing on a theological reading or a return to the early church hermeneutic. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In a PBI discussion, Tyler, Matt, and Paul, discuss a Christian form of knowing which is neither supersessionist nor modern foundationalism. Using the psychoanalytic poles of perversion and hysteria, they lay out a third way of knowing. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - Mary's Song and story opens human interiority and depth to world-changing consequences for human choice. Out of this realization evolves the modern sense of human interiority. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - Darkness is interwoven into the light of the Christmas story which heightens the meaning of its sublime beauty and purpose. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound  

Jon and Paul continue their discussion of the critical realism of Ben Meyer and Bernard Lonergan and discuss how subject/object duality is the specific form of subjectivity overcome in Christ and how this might conflict with or fit into an apocalyptic theological understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Jon and Paul discuss the critical realism of Ben Meyer and Bernard Lonergan and how this might conflict with or fit into an apocalyptic theological understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton Preaches - The advent of the light breaking into the world is not dependent on human decision. It is a matter of what God is doing. To focus on the mediation of law, on the mediation of history, or to picture faith as a mediation, is to miss the act of God in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound