Episodes
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Sermon: The Lie of Radical Evil Exposed by Infinite Forgiveness
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: This sermon touches upon the possibility of acting upon the lie of radical evil, as in the case of Lamech, and the counter to this in the enactment of divine grace in infinite forgiveness.
(Sign up for the class Human Language, Signs of God: using Anthony Bartlett’s two books, Theology Beyond Metaphysics and Signs of Change, as one continuous argument. Underlying this sequence is the core perception that language is the privileged medium by which the biblical God, the God of nonviolence, is revealed to us. If God is going to invite us into a new sense and meaning of what it is to be human this has to happen through language, that is through "signs of God." Theology Beyond Metaphysics introduces the thought of semiotics and specifically in relation to the anthropology of Rene' Girard. Signs of Change traces a pathway of semiotic change of meaning through the text of the whole Bible. The course will run from 2025/9/16 to 2025/11/4. Register here: https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/)
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Part 2 with John Dear: Jesus as the Focus and Means of Peace
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
John Dear, the world renowned peace activist, describes his theological focus on practicing the Sermon on the Mount.
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Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Missing the Mark Exposed by Christ
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Brad and Paul discuss sin, not as a legal failure giving rise to guilt, but as a loss of the divine model due to the obstacle posed by sin (a very different understanding of missing the mark) and the recovery of this model in Christ. This serves as an explanation of the sermon which follows the discussion.
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Peace Activist John Dear on Life with the Nonviolent Jesus
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
John Dear describes to Brad and Paul his life of peacemaking with Jesus along with his friends the Berrigans, Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, and others, recommending doing the Sermon on the Mount rather than simply studying about it.
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Saturday Jul 12, 2025
Sermon: The Vision of Universal Peace Enabling Universal Practice of Peace
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: The vision of the apocalypse in which the slain Lamb reigns through nonviolent defeat of violence and death is the impetus behind the resistant nonviolence of the Sermon on the Mount. The interlocking logic of the vision and practice points to the necessity of universal salvation as the goal behind the practice.
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Monday Jul 07, 2025
William Desmond: The Preservation of Community in Betweenness
Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
William Desmond describes the danger of the "all and all" in an Eastern sensibility, of subsuming all things into one rather than preserving difference. He describes the prejudice against belief and his preservation of Christian faith against the philosophical tide of the academy.
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Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Sermon: God is not Violent - The Confusion Between God and the Devil
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Paul Axton Preaches: The Jewish confusion between God and evil results from the projection of their violence onto God, which Jesus identifies as marking their paternity as children of the Devil. The Jewish captivity to the lie of sin, is the human problem Jesus exposes and defeats, by defeating the power that killed him on the cross.
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Monday Jun 30, 2025
William Desmond on the Metaxological Alternative to Hegel
Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
William Desmond explains his reading of the Metaxological as the recovery of metaphysics as a being between, and he describes his deep reading of Hegel and points out the failure of the positive reading of Hegel in Rowan William and Gillian Rose, and debunks the Žižekian reading as untrue to Hegel.
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Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Sermon: Peace as Universal Salvation Through Universal Nonviolence
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Paul Axton preaches: The saving peace of Christ is universal in its cosmic scope, inclusive of the world, all people, and everything about them, delivering from the violence of the world, infected by human violence.
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
Hegel: Knowing God Through Kenotic Love as Opposed to Knowing Propositions
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
In this final discussion of Hegel and Anselm, the contrast between the two in the personal and propositional is brought out, with the idea that God's person is given to us in Christ (poured out in kenotic love) and in this sense can be known.
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