Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton preaches - Divine and created Sophia, as brought together in Christ, describes what is happening in the redemption of the cosmos. The created order is brought to its fulfillment in being j…

Jim, David, Matthew, Brian, and Paul discuss the nature of radical evil as the underside of the law (as exemplified by Paul the Pharisee and as duplicated in all radical evil), and how Christ defeats…

Paul Axton preaches - The demonization and scapegoating of Jesus are exposed by Jesus' death and resurrection and by his explicit teaching, describing the continuation of demonization in the Christia…

Tom Evans, formerly on the ministerial staff of one of the largest churches in the country, describes to Paul, the emptiness of the mega church experience. Real world healing and salvation are being …

Paul Axton preaches - The cosmic representation of the Temple is made an individual reality as the kingdom of God is establishes through Temple communities centered on life and peace rather than viol…

Matt, Brian, Jim, David, Jonathan, Matthew, Brent, and Paul continue discussion on the cosmic power of Christ as defeat of the universal psychoanalytic/individual sickness and the corporate powers. F…

Paul Axton preaches - No single part of personhood is a sufficient beginning point, but only the fullness of Trinitarian reality can encapsulate the ground for reason, cognition, and experience. This…

Matthew, Jonathan, Brian, David, Brent, and Paul discuss the cosmic image of Christ in Ephesians 2, and humankinds incorporation into the divine image, and the simultaneous picture of evil, as the re…

Paul Axton preaches - Christ exposes the history of murder and the exposure, as in the case of Daniel Ellsberg's exposure of the Pentagon Papers and the Doomsday Machine and Cormac McCarthy's novel B…

Paul Axton preaches - Recognition of the Abba relationship to God frees from slavery to the law, as the relationship sealed by the Spirit through the Son is a new form of subjectivity. The story of C…

Paul Axton preaches - The explanation of the death of Christ, the divine dying in the human, is explained through the created and uncreated aspects of Wisdom (as in the theology of Sergius Bulgakov).…

Brent, David, Matt, Matthew, Jonathan, Jim, and Paul discuss the two-fold economy found in Gnosticism/nominalism and in Paul's summing up as described in Irenaeus' doctrine of recapitulation. Partici…

Paul Axton preaches - God is working through all peoples, cultures and religions, as is demonstrated in the recent mass movements of Muslims coming to Christ. But this does not entail relinquishing t…

Jonathan, Brent, Matt, and Paul discuss the implications of taking Ephesians as central to the Pauline corpus and discuss both recapitulation and Christus Victor as Paul's understanding of atonment i…

Paul Axton preaches - The test of authentic Christianity is its liberating effect, and the most obvious example of this liberation pertains to chattel slavery in the modern period. The trans-Atlantic…

Brian, Matt, Brent, Matthew, Jonathan, Austin, David, and Paul discuss the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Wesleyan understanding of salvation and compare it to Paul's depiction in Ephesians.

Become a Patro…

Paul Axton preaches - The Roman Empire is described in Revelation as the puppet of Satan, and Christ alone defeats this Beast. Empire threatens the church in the United States and the Christocentrism…

David, Matt, Brian, Brent, Austin, Tim, and Paul discuss the necessary shifts to see Ephesians as central to Paul's Gospel. The work of Douglas Campbell, Richard Hays, E. P. Sanders, Krister Stendahl…

Paul Axton preaches - Jesus as ensouled body and embodied soul undoes dualism and antagonism which plays upon body/soul and male/female antagonism. In Christ, as the truly human one, theology is set …