Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton continues his examination of the life and theology of John Howard Yoder. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton exams an absolute and Christian notion of Freedom and suggests our age is characterized by a pursuit of a false freedom giving rise to the sickness of the age. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton talks about  John Howard Yoder, one of the premier theological thinkers of the 20th century who suffered from a sexual perversion. Since he consciously developed his theology to include the fullness of personality the test here is to work out how this failure is reflected in the theology of John Howard Yoder. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Mus...

Paul Axton poses the question, "Do Christians have recourse to the law when so-called Christians are abusing them sexually or financially?" If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton weaves the thought of Wittgenstein with his personal journey in order to set the stage for understanding his philosophy. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The apostle Paul deals with the origin and depth of evil and explains to the Church in Corinth how to insure the power of the Passover Lamb applies to them. Part of what needs to be gotten rid of is the notion that law and love are opposed. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton explains that Ludwig Wittgenstein shifted philosophy and with it theology to a new appreciation of the embodied nature of language and thus the embedded contextual nature of being human. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on I Corinthians 4, where the apostle Paul says he does not judge anyone nor even presume to judge himself. He is describing a relinquishment of judgmentalism achieved by presuming responsibility as a servant and not a legislator of over the church. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The Church is an ethic, a form of spiritual worship constituting the presence of Christ. It does not simply have these things or do these things as if there is a gap of separation between them an the Church. This is definitive of the Church.   If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

 Scott McNay and Paul Axton discuss the influence of Eugene Peterson and the point of being a pastor through reflection on the book of Corinthians. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this sermon, Paul Axton suggests that Christ is the foundation of the cosmos in that he is creator and sustainer and this understanding accords with recent science but also goes beyond it and beyond the fundamental principles of reason available in a closed cosmos. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton lectures on the importance of the singular foundation through Niemöller and Bonhoeffer. Paul pictures Christ as the One foundation in I Cor. 3 and indicates even though we may build on this foundation our life may be a futility. The work of the Church at certain periods in history may come to nothing - this is illustrated in the life of Martin Niemöller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. If you e...

Paul Axton preaches: Rhetoric, philosophy and law or debaters, philosophers, and scribes is Paul's way of describing the talk and talkers which are of this age. A fullness of speech marks a different age, a different identity, and a different orientation to language. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton introduces I Corinthians. He argues Paul is employing something like Austin's notion of a speech act - his "word of the cross" is deployed to create a unified community where the logos of wisdom is creating dis-community. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on I Cor. 2:6-8 - Human wisdom is responsible, according to Paul, for the death of Christ and those who killed him were blind to what they were doing. The Bible traces human religion and understanding to a death dealing lie and this is what the wisdom of Christ exposes and displaces. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: With sexual abuse by both Catholic Priests and Protestant clergy reaching epidemic proportions there is the necessity to pose the possibility the church is incubating evil. Corinthians addresses and provides an alternative to illicit desire and sexuality. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Michael Hines has written and studied the history of Islam and we discuss the various possibilities as to the identity of Muhammad, the difference in the view of God between Islam and Christianity, the historical development of Islam and the influences which may have shaped this faith. Join the discussion hosted by Paul Axton. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our wo...

Paul Axton preaches on the opening section of I Corinthians. in which Paul calls them "saints," "sanctified," the "called out" holy ones, is the point of unity to which he is calling this divided community. God's holiness, his innermost unity, is the mode in which the Corinthians and all of us are to find unity. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Ben...

In this conversation Paul Axton and Ryan Hemmer discuss philosophy of science as it impacts theology and as worked out by Bernard Lonergan. Ryan also recently started his own podcast, Systematically . Part 3 of 3 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: In the 1960’s and into the 70’s – with the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, the rise of the drug culture – what we call the cultural revolution – a phenomena called the Jesus People came about. Youth Culture meets the Church. We are not at the end of this cultural clash but can assess it through Corinthians. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider d...

In this introductory sermon to I Corinthians, Paul Axton compares the measure of the cross to the health and wealth gospel and the philosophy of church growth as a measure of success. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton interviews Ryan Hemmer who is completing a major work on Bernard Lonergan. Here are his insights into this key theologian of the 20th century. Lonergan provides the basis for theology to forge ahead into previously uncharted territory and Ryan explains why. Ryan also recently started his own podcast, Systematically . Part 1 of 3 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to s...

Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton discuss the newest course available on PBI . Matthew: Gospel of Kingdoms is an in-depth, theologically reflective reading of the book of Matthew which allows Jesus' life and teaching to challenge all of our ideas about the way life is supposed to work in this world. We see Jesus' Kingdom vision as truly as we can and learn to imagine what it was he saw as he taught i...

In part three of this discussion, Paul Axton and Megan Kenyon talk about the failures and inadequacies of Utopian societies and attempt to describe the ideal understanding of the Christian community - especially as it relates to the embodied human condition and the need to meet the entirety of human needs. As a female artist, Megan describes the particular struggle of women in the Church. Part 3 o...

Paul Axton preaches: Persons were a minority among people of first century Rome. Onesimus and Jesus did not qualify as Persons according to Roman law. Christ, by becoming a slave, overturns the valuation system of the world and in the process redefines what it means to be a person. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound