Forging Ploughshares

NT Wright says, “The story of the new exodus in Christ and the homeward journey of God’s people led by the Spirit provides the setting for incorporative and participationist language.” This is over a…

Paul and Frank start a conversation about a Biblical understanding of communion and what it may mean to restore Biblical practice today.

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Paul describes  the problem with divine satisfaction and presents an alternative biblical understanding.

As long as we are willing to sell our brother down the river, have the other suffer instead o…

What is the Church and how does it save? The point is not that we have to negotiate between two realities – there is only one cultural reality and this is that established in the body of Christ.

As …

The New Testament describes the defeat of sin and death and the devil. Historic explanations have missed this focus by picturing atonement as removing an obstacle located in a singular person (God, h…

The scapegoating of Christ pronounced by Caiaphas is the height of political genius and definitive of majority rule. It is this evil that Christ came to defeat. Paul uses Rene Girard to explain scape…

How are we made right? In that we are found faithful inasmuch as we are found to be in Christ. He is the one who is faithful to the covenant. So we do ethics not as a separate part of our Christianit…

Christ came to defeat sin death and the devil. This is inclusive of an overcoming of blinded minds so that we can now apprehend the working of sin in and through the principalities and powers.

In ot…

Carlyle King, a man with autism, and Mario Puentes, the parent of a child with autism, share a friendship that they call “a nearly unbreakable relationship.”  In this podcast, they discuss how their …

Paul continues to tell the story of theology.

Because we have to ask ourselves “What is the role of Christ, the role of salvation, what does it mean to read the New Testament?” That’s really what I’…

Many people quote Jeremiah 29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you…plans to prosper you and not to harm you…”), but few read vss. 1-10, in which we find God’s people stuck in a difficult place, a…

This lecture seeks to show how ethics is either integrated or separated from the saving work of Christ.

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Paul and Jonathan Totty discuss the meaning of the death of Christ in light of the psychoanalytic reading of Paul (the Apostle), as described in Paul’s book.

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By not recognizing Paul’s description of the perverse there is a “Christianity” that remains perverse to its core. Salvation is freedom from both perversion and agonism and this alternative subjectiv…

In this segment of Practicing Peace, Hayden chats with Dr. Stephen Chapman of Duke University about theological interpretation of Scripture and Old Testament violence.

In order for us to be clear ab…

Paul explains how the cross addresses evil.

We understand the nature of evil in and through the person and work of Jesus Christ, which is not normally the way this is done. Usually when we talk abou…

A comparison of Ro. 7:7ff – which amounts to an empty word from nowhere with Ro. 8:26-27 which describes an infinite depth of communication.

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Paul compares and contrasts the certainty we would attain to and the certainty given in Christ.

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