Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom
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How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? What about technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family? Is another life possible? Plough editor Peter Mommsen and senior editor Susannah Black Roberts dig deeper into perspectives from a wide variety of writers and thinkers appearing in the pages of Plough.
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Theology. Heathenry. Polytheism. Anglo-Saxon Heathenry, Roman Polytheism, philosophy, history, folklore, and thoughts. The vocal attachment to Of Axe and Plough, the Blog. It's your fault this title is a pun.
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We're sowing the seeds of a better you.
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As a proud daughter of a farmer, I believe that farmers are not only providers of food but also people who are in touch with nature and can speak to it. Stay tuned to my poetry collections inspired by my childhood years on a farm.
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History, theory, and current critical analysis of the world utilizing the science of dialectical materialism
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Choose your own path. I travel the world to have uncensored conversations with uncommon people. Fellow misfits and explorers whose stories will help you find your way when you don't fit in.
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Christ Binding and Beyond Culture and Religion
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In this continued introduction to World Religions and Cultures a review of the work of Rene Girard as it folds into Mircea Eliade and Peter Berger helps define the interactive roles of culture and religion as modes of orientation in identity, and as completed in Christ and the Church. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider do…
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Sermon: Eclipsing the Mirror Stage in Mirroring Christ
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In two passages from I and II Corinthians, Paul utilizes the mirror or mirroring to illustrate incompleteness and immaturity and fullness. He points to the focus on the spectral, the partial, the created - as in many religions which focus on the sun and its eclipse - as the problem. In Psychoanalysis this mirror stage is universal and without cure,…
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The PloughRead: The Leper of Abercuawg by David McBride
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David McBride introduces his new translation of The Leper of Abercuawg, a thousand-year-old Welsh poem in which an outcast seeks comfort in the wild.โดย Plough
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81: Can Metaphors Help Us Live Well?
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Joy Clarkson discusses her new book, and the importance of metaphor. Why are metaphors important? How can they help us live well – and how can they go wrong? Why should we not think of ourselves as computers? And what does all this mean for our language about God? In the discussion, Joy and Susannah range widely through topics including apophatic t…
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Christ and Culture: From Eliade and Berger to Hart and Bulgakov
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Jim, David, Tim, Brian and Paul discuss the possible relationships between Christ and culture, particularly in a secular age, and discuss the opposed positions of Mircea Eliade and Peter Berger and the resolution posed by David Bentley Hart and Sergius Bulgakov. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our w…
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Sermon: A Neo-Chalcedonian Understanding of the Unifying Work of Christ
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The Council of Chalcedon, as read by Maximus the Confessor, provides a solution to the issue of difference and unity, the problem of the one and the many, or the answer to how their can be unifying love in a universe seemingly built on dualism, difference, and multiplicity. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to s…
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The PloughRead: The Plants Can Talk by William Thomas Okie
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William Thomas Okie says plants can talk; but is anyone listening?โดย Plough
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The PloughRead: Saving the Soil, Saving the Farm by Colin Boller
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Colin Boller explains how regenerative agriculture helps farmers care for the land and pay the bills.โดย Plough
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Sermon: Resurrection as the Center of Christian Faith
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There are a variety of Christianities in which resurrection is excluded (theological liberalism), not needed (fundamentalism and penal substitution), or deemphasized (evangelicalism or pietism). The answer to the resurrectionless or semi-resurrectionless religions is the gospel, as the defeat of death, a cosmic salvation, a lived righteousness, a r…
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Michael Hardin on a Girardian Approach to the New Testament
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In the conclusion to the interview with Girard specialist Michael Hardin, Michael explains how a non-sacrificial hermeneutic, taken up in the Wesleyan Quadrilateral of Scripture, tradition, reason and experience, given a Christological center is the dynamic for reading the Bible and understanding God, not through morality but in character and ethic…
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The PloughRead: Dandelions: An Apology by Clare Coffey
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Clare Coffey gives a defense of the dandelion, the plant that always comes back.โดย Plough
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80: The Technology of Middle-Earth
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Matthew Scarince and Sebastian Milbank discuss Tolkien and technology. Susannah chimes in. Is J. R. R. Tolkien anti-technology? What is the relationship between magic and technology in the world of the Lord of the Rings, and in ours? What do the elves have to do with that? What can we tell by looking at the rings, the palantíri, the silmarils? Shou…
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Sermon: The Triumphal Entry and Jesus' Defeat of the Powers
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In John's account of the triumphal entry the resurrection of Lazarus triggers the events leading to Jesus' kingly reception, and then the turning of the crowd and his death as a scapegoat. Jesus exposes the history of violence and murder and explains his coming death as the defeat of Satan and the answer to mythic religious violence. Become a Patro…
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Michael Hardin Links the Work of René Girard to Maximus the Confessor
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In part one of this two part conversation, Michael Hardin, a leading expert on René Girard shows the direct parallels between Girard and Maximus on mimesis, desire, the object cause of desire, and the genealogy of violence, and how it is the very character of God, in kenotic love, delivers creation and the crown of creation from the futility of dea…
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The PloughRead: Saskatchewan, Promised Land by Daniel J. D. Stulac
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Daniel J. D. Stulac, a newcomer to Saskatchewan, searches for the Old Testament promise.โดย Plough
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The Problem of Religion and Culture
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In this new series on world cultures and religions, Tim, Jon, Brian, David, Simon, and Paul discuss the impact of the secular on religion, creating a distinct category "religion" separate from culture in which faith and practice become visibly distinct. The obscuring role of religion in Peter Berger and Rene Girard are examples. Become a Patron! If…
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Sermon: The Scandal of the Cross Exposing the Scandal of Satan
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The serpent points to a false desire, sin points to a false understanding of the law, and the idol poses a false god, which in each instance serves as an obstacle to what it promises, giving rise to the obstacle cause of desire. Christ exposes this scandalous lie, but Christ and the cross become a scandal or a stone of stumbling for those who conti…
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The PloughRead: The Wonder of Moths by Caroline Moore
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Caroline Moore has studied moths since she was a child. She writes how they showcase nature’s richness and vulnerability.โดย Plough
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79: According to the Scriptures – Resurrection in the Old Testament
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Alastair Roberts revisits the resurrection stories of the Old Testament. Jesus expected his followers to know that he was going to have to die and would then be resurrected – but, famously, they didn’t figure it out until it happened. What were Jewish expectations of resurrection, and where is the idea found in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible? Al…
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Reflections On Our Conversation With Jordan Wood and His Class for PBI
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Matt and Paul discuss key points raised by Jordan Wood and his upcoming class for PBI concerning Hegel, concerning the depth of theosis, and the meaning of being subject to fire in a universal understanding of Christianity. (Sign up for the course, The Theology of Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Wood. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings…
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Jordan Wood on the PBI Course: The Theology of Maximus The Confessor
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Paul and Matt discuss with Jordan the upcoming course on Maximus, discussing Christ as the foundation of a reason bringing together the antinomies (or limits of reason) pointed out by Kant, accounted for in the post-Kantians and incorporated into Bulgakov's sophiology, and Jordan suggests an alternative reading of Hegel in which he is an orthodox C…
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The PloughRead: Christian Fellowship Isn’t Just Being Nice by Clarence Jordan
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Southern Baptist preacher Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) argued that true Christian fellowship as practiced by the early church demands sharing of material possessions, distribution of those goods, and racial equality.โดย Plough
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The Defeat of the Covenant with Death in Romans 9-11
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Jim, Jeff, Brian, and Paul discuss Paul's use of Isaiah's picture of the covenant with death, and universal deliverance and salvation, as an alternative reading to Romans 10-11, as opposed to justification theory. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…
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Romans 9-11: Double Predestination and Christian Zionism
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Jeff, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss the role of the false teacher in Romans 9-11, Douglas Campbell's idea that works of the law was a problem which occurred only with the advent of Christianity, and the role of Christian Zionism and anti-Semitism in justification theory. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to suppo…
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Ross Douthat discusses why what is natural is not a guide to what is good. The idea that the natural world is to be worshiped can take many forms. Douthat and Peter Mommsen and Susannah Black Roberts discuss these forms, ranging from Wordsworthian spiritual experiences in a national park, to worshiping ancestral or local gods, to civic religions of…
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The Reconstitution of the Subject From Romans 7 to Romans 8
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Jeff, Jim, David, Brian, and Paul compare and contrast the Human Subject of chapter 7 and the reconstituted Subject of Romans chapter 8. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.โดย Paul Axton
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Romans 7: The Split Within as the Sickness Unto Death
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Jim, Jeff, Brian, David, and Paul discuss Romans chapter 7 as providing a diagnosis of the human disease, in which the self is divided against itself. In Calvinism and justification theory this is presumed to be the normal Christian life, but this is Paul's picture of the human disease. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider …
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Does Baptism Make an Ontological Difference?
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In the conclusion to our discussion of Romans 6, Matt, Jim, Brian, David and Paul discuss the question as to how to describe the difference in the Christian life. God's universal plan of salvation and the reality of evil create the question whether there is an ontological distinction with those in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcas…
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The Dialectic of the Law Displaced in Being Joined to the Body of Christ
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Jim, David, Brian, Matthew, Jonathan, Matt, and Paul discuss how the law functions as a deep grammar giving rise to the antinomies of a dialectic which functions as an end in itself. Romans 6 describes baptism as the cure to this dialectical antagonism by being joined to the body of Christ in baptism. Here the sign no longer floats free of the sign…
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The PloughRead: Three Pillars of Education by Heinrich Arnold
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Heinrich Arnold writes that in the Bruderhof, as in any society, children flourish when family, school, and community align.โดย Plough
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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alexander Raikin discuss euthanasia and eugenics. What has happened in the law and society in Canada since 2016 such that MAID has exploded, becoming one of the most common causes of death there? What is the relationship of national healthcare to this expansion? Alexander Raikin brings in a review of the statistics ove…
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Cosmic Conversion From the Elementary Principles of the Law Through Mind Transformation
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Jeff, Matt, Brian, Jon, David, and Paul discuss Louis Martyn's depiction of the Galatian heresy as captivity to the elementary principles as this can be equated with Douglas Campbell's picture of the false teacher, and how conversion pertains to mind transformation through deliverance from this cosmos through Christ as fundamental reason. Become a …
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