Forging Ploughshares

About Forging Ploughshares

Cultivating the Peaceable Kingdom

Publisher

Paul Axton

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Sept 2016

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

63 of 1,046 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Sermon: The Victory of Christ Through the Rule of Faith

   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 rule of faith. (Sign up for the course, Sin and Salvation, touching upon the apocalyptic new hermeneutic involved in a nonviolent reading of God and atonement. The course will run from the third week of October to the second week of December. Sign up here https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/ and then go to current course offerings.) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

2. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Jonathan Heaps Describes Chad Pecknold's New Job and the Rise of Catholic Integralism

   Jonathan Heaps discusses with Paul and Brad the growing influence of Catholic integralism and its proponents like Chad Pecknold within governmental institutions.

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   10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sermon: Paul's Version of Christus Victor

   Paul Axton explores Paul's interpretation of sin's defeat and victory over deception in Romans 7:7ff.

Inside a recent episode

Jonathan Heaps Describes Chad Pecknold's New Job and the Rise of Catholic Integralism

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And he said, I'm not going to be of any use to you out there. Yeah. Right. Um, cause he knew himself and, you know, and that's a piece of it too. Um, but I also, you know, I, I teach, uh, In our core, I teach in our core here. We have a series of core courses here at Seton Hall. And one of the core texts we teach in the second level core class is a text that's very worth reading called The Martyrdom or The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. And it's an early Christian text. It's one of the martyrologies about these two young women, one of whom is quite well-to-do, the other who is a slave, a servant in her household, both of whom are converting to Christianity. and who won't make the sacrifice to Caesar because Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. […]

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• Jonathan Heaps
• Paul Axton
• Brian Sartor
• Anthony Bartlett

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37 ratings

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