Forging Ploughshares

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 support our work. Music: Bensound

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 it. Learning how it defied the expectations of the first-century people awaiting the Messiah helps us see how our own contemporary expectations aren't much different and how Jesus is as shocking today as he was 2000 years ago. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

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 of 3. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

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

In part two of this interview, Megan Kenyon describes the blossoming of art in its relation to the renaissance and reformation, and then the fragmenting of thought and theology as reflected in modern art. Part 2 of 3 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton quotes two poets, Woodie Guthrie and Jason Rodenbeck, to make the point that bad theology fused with capitalism enslaves. We are to be about the work of redemptive creation care in all of our labors. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In part one of this interview, Megan Kenyon and Paul Axton discuss the role of art in the life of the Christian and the theology of art. Part 1 of 3 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: Is slavery a metaphor for sin and not itself sin or is slavery a type of sin? How we answer this question not only determines our reading of Philemon but determines if we recognize that economics and socio-political forces are part of what enslaves us and constitute a part of what Christ frees us from. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton explains Zizek and the core of Lacanian theory as it overlaps with the apostle Paul. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this sermon, Paul Axton suggests that the manner in which slavery is subverted by Paul is the mode in which the Kingdom is made a reality. Radical subordination enacts the subversion of the City of Man and marks the City of God. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound