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Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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Signup to Generate a PitchForging Ploughshares is hosted by Paul Axton. The show has published 999 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Girard Versus Girard" (26 October 2026, 78 minutes), "Sermon: The Rule of Faith Sums Up The Gospel of Peace" (24 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "John Ashworth Describes His Journey to Nonviolence as a Missionary in Sudan" (19 October 2026, 88 minutes).
Forging Ploughshares publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 999 episodes.
Booking probability for Forging Ploughshares is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Forging Ploughshares requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Forging Ploughshares's contact route on record: verified email.
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Paul Axton hosts Forging Ploughshares, a religion podcast with 999 episodes published.
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Episode #1200
Brad and Paul discuss Anthony Bartlett's book, Love's Entanglement, which shows how the later Girard gave up on his theory and the power of revelation, and how early Girard was apocalyptic in his understanding of...
Paul Axton preaches: the means of sorting out the violent image of God from the nonviolent is the rule of faith, which is the spearhead for rightly dividing Scripture and the world according to the Gospel of Peace. Sign...
John Ashworth, missionary, priest, and peacemaker, in some of the most violent parts of Africa describes his conclusion that nonviolence is the only hope. You can read about John's journey in his autobiography...
Paul Axton preaches: Paul's version of Christus Victor is not focused on either the law or the devil, but the defeat of the dynamic of sin, or a way of seeing all things through the mind of Christ or what he calls the...
Jonathan Heaps describes to Paul and Brad the rise among Catholics attempting to take control of government and governmental institutions and like Chad Pecknold, to be the voice for violence in this administration...
Brian Sartor, through long engagement with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher Paul is deconstructing in Romans 1:18ff, broadens this understanding to the Bible and this cultural moment to suggest Paul is...
Paul Axton preaches: The first obligation of the church is to be the church, to be Christian, and not as the MAGA New Right envisions through regime change, revolutionizing the judiciary, and creating a sovereign power...
Episode #1192
Brad and Paul discuss the MAGA New Right, and describe the upcoming course on sin and salvation, touching upon the apocalyptic new hermeneutic involved in a nonviolent reading of God and atonement. The course will run...
Paul Axton Preaches: The Trump administration is filled with devout Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians, and yet the religion on display in this administration and its supporters aligns with an evil cruelty...
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...
Episode #1189
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...
Episode #1188
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...
Episode #1187
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...
Episode #1186
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brad and Paul discuss how Slavoj Žižek Extends the insights of René Girard, providing a deep reading of the problem of the law, accounting for Luther's depression, in spite of his discovery of "justification." If you...
Episode #1180
Anthony Bartlett explains to Paul and Brad the culmination of his work in Love's Entanglement: God as Nonviolent Relation and How That Brings the World to Peace. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to...
Paul Axton preaches: This sermon follows the sacrificial stages in the life of Harry Truman as a prototype of the seeming necessity of the apocalyptic religion into which Christ intervenes. If you enjoyed this podcast...
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