Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Balthasar's explanation of the analogia entis, Barth's misunderstanding, and why this esoteric matter would make a difference to a theologian like James Cone. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on the ultimate sin identified with Judas: handing over Jesus. This sermon demonstrates how this ultimate sin is one that is shared by the Apostles and which is specifically confronted by Jesus. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton compares two functions of language as typefied at Babel and Pentecost. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Richard Hughes, the premier historian and key thinker in the Restoration Movement addresses the problem of white supremacy and racism as it is attached to particular theological perspectives and offers a theological and historical resolution. Presented as part of the Peace and Justice Study Group at The Stone Campbell Conference. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our...

Paul Axton preaches on two notions of truth, compared and contrasted as they come into conflict during the trial of Jesus.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton and David Rosado review the film The Rider. After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton examines alternative theories of predestination and arrives at a resolution that is neither Calvinist nor Pelagian. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

The contrasting dreams of two generations clash within the microcosm of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Bhutan, when Gyembo an ordinary teenager is chosen as the next guardian of their family monastery by his father. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Fire, torture, punishment, and discipline are depicted as purifying. In 1 Cor 3:11-17 - fire purifies and saves while some are depicted as being annihilated. There is no eternal conscious torment depicted in Scripture. In this sermon, Paul Axton examines terms translated as eternal and punishment to suggest that "the chastening of that Age" is neither eternal nor retributive. If you enjoyed this p...

David Rosado and Paul Axton discuss the role of spirituality in mental health. What does the Bible say about mental health and how does mental disease, spirituality, and physiology potentially work together? If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

This sermon follows Paul Axton's recent blog suggesting that the trial of Jesus forever suspends absolute notions of sovereignty and justice. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on passages describing the narrow way and those depicting an all inclusive salvation which give us theological fundamentalism and various forms of universalism. The first step toward overcoming this problem is to recognize salvation is not from eternal torturous existence but from the universal problem of sin and death. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to s...

Here is the interview with the premiere historian of the Restoration Movement - Richard Hughes. We discuss nonvioloence in the RM, white supremacy, why continue on identifying with this tradition, and the essence of true religion. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton uses James and Frederick Douglas to describe how religion becomes evil through becoming deaf to the oppressed. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton shows that the dialectic between madness/wisdom is simply part of the dialectic always taking place between life/death which the cross addresses and undoes. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton and David Rosado review the film Of Fathers and Sons: For more than two years Talal Derki lives with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra fighter in a small village in northern Syria, focusing his camera mainly on the children. From a young age, the boys are trained to follow in their father’s footsteps and become soldiers of God. The horrors of war and the intimacy of family life are n...

Paul Axton and David Rosado review two films, Won't You Be My Neighbor and Primas. Won't You Be My Neighbor: Fred Rogers was about to enter the seminary when he turned on his first TV and saw a man get hit with a pie. He was aghast. How could he preach love and kindness when preschoolers were absorbing junk violence? So he changed career, trading a clerical collar for a cardigan, and attempted to...

Paul concludes his Easter series of sermons with the resurrection: He is risen, sin is forgiven and new creation has commenced.   If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton continues his sermon series leading up to Easter. Several of the liturgical readings surrounding Palm Sunday are referenced leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Following the liturgical calendar leading to Easter, this sermon describes the character change of the new covenant described in Jeremiah through the life, death, and resurrection - and the high priestly ministry of Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton follows liturgical readings leading up to Easter. Here he explains what it means to be fallen and saved and how the cross takes us from one world to another. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty have a conversation about Divine simplicity, which done wrongly gives us ontotheology but correctly understood it forecloses any notion which would reduce God - including penal substitution. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton concludes his sermon series on Hebrews. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on Hebrews 12:2 - Despising the Shame. It demonstrates the transvaluation taking place in Hebrews. It is still a system which accounts for honor but under a different mode of valuation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Bensound

In this podcast, Paul Axton and Jonathan Totty discuss the need for humility in reading scripture: Coming to the scripture with the attitude of desiring to be shaped by it as a part of the community of Christ. Ploughshares Bible Institute is offerning a course on Hermenuetics starting March 17th. Enroll today! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music:  Benso...