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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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- Yesterday1h 5m
Anthony Bartlett on the Contention over the Identity of God in Job and Deuteronomy
Anthony Bartlett continues to unfold his nonviolent reading of God and Scripture in a comparison of Job and Deuteronomy, in which Job gives voice to the nonviolent, non-retributive, understanding of God, posed against the retributive justice of his friends as found in Deuteronomy. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 3 days ago32 min
Sermon: The Alternative to Nuclear War
Paul Axton preaches: The alternative to 9/11 and the threat of nuclear war is that the meek alone will inherit the Earth. Violent conquest through nuclear destruction points to the singular solution. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 1 weeks ago1h 40m
Wendell Berry and Finding Our Place
David, Jonathan, and Paul, discuss the profound influence of Wendell Berry on each of us in realizing the spiritual sense of place and belonging, addressing also alienation, racism, waywardness, and the redemptive grace made available in friendship. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 1 weeks ago27 min
Sermon: The Spiritual Rootedness of Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton as an Expression of Universal Salvation
Paul Axton Preaches: The particular expression of spiritual rootedness found in Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton is an entry into the meaning of universal salvation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 2 weeks ago1h 48m
Anthony Bartlett: The Hebrew Exodus from Violence
Anthony Bartlett provides a Girardian reading of Genesis and Exodus, in which the Hebrew people are formed from oppressed outcasts, and in which liberation from violence and oppression, through the experience of Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, and the experience of Abraham, provides for the formation of the nonviolence pictured in creation and culminating in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 2 weeks ago38 min
Sermon: The Crisis of Mediation Leading to the Intimate Mediation of Faith
Paul Axton preaches: There is an apocalyptic logic laid out in the New Testament, which the Lutheran notion of justification misses, in which there is a crisis and implosion, an attempt to silence God, and it is from the midst of this attempt to destroy him that Christ speaks. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 3 weeks ago1h 38m
Anthony Bartlett on the Significance of Benoît Chantre for Girardian Theory
Anthony Bartlett explains to Brad and Paul the significance of Benoît Chantre, the biographer and last key conversation partner with René Girard with whom the book Battling to the End, Girard's last word. Chantre attempts to direct Girard away from a dark apocalypticism toward what he calls an intimate mediation in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
- 3 weeks ago38 min
Sermon: Redefining Luther’s “Justification” Through a Fuller Reading of Paul
Paul Axton preaches: Paul describes the "end of the law" which is "nailed to the cross" and "set aside" along with the power of the "rulers and authorities" so that a fulness of Paul's reading gets beyond Luther's constricted understanding of grace and faith which are still functioning on the basis of the law. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!
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