Best Ploughshares Podcasts (2024)

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Jordan Wood: Not Mere Man Nor Naked God 53:22

4h ago53:22

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Jordan Wood, in this lecture discusses the personhood of Christ, the role or meaning of such terms as natural, Logos, and hypostatic union, and he critiques the work of David Bentley Hart in failing to grasp the implications of the neo-Chalcedonian understanding. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our …

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NH #686: Reuters Investigation Blasts Govt. Agency Incompetence, Lies at N St. Louis Radioactive West Lake Landfill – Dawn Chapman 59:46

1h ago59:46

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Dawn Chapman of Just Moms StL (l) and Nuclear Hotseat host Libbe HaLevy at symposium on West Lake Landfill issues in North St. Louis, February 19, 2016. Keystone Photo – activists Dawn Chapman and Kay Drey on-site at radioactively contaminated Coldwater Creek in N. St. Louis, MO. February 19, 2016. This Week’s Featured Interview: Nuclear...…

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Jordan Wood: The Whole Mystery of Christ 1:02:17

1d ago1:02:17

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Jordan Daniel Wood focuses in on the key passage in Maximus explaining the whole mystery of Christ as this pertains to all things, but particularly the role of personhood and identity in Christ. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton

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Jordan Wood: Synthesis is Everything 57:50

3d ago57:50

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Jordan Daniel Wood concludes the discussion of Maximus and synthesis, explaining how Christ, even in the midst of sin and false synthesis or through the passions, brings all things together in his life and the life of the Christian. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…

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NH #685: Hiroshima, Nagasaki 79th Anniversary -“Atomic Cover-Up” film, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow accepts 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for ICAN 59:21

6d ago59:21

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The remains of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb destroyed the city, 1945 ATOMIC COVER-UP – Director Greg Mitchell is the award-winning author of a dozen books including 2020’s “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” His previous books on the atomic bombings were “Hiroshima in America“ (with..…

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Sermon: Embodied Versus Disembodied Faith 27:52

8d ago27:52

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The Western tradition from Augustine and Descartes has developed focus on thought, propositions and doctrine separated from practice and ethics. This disembodied form of the faith stands in contrast to Paul's description of being embodied - living sacrifices and it contrasts with the Eastern understanding exemplified in Maximus the Confessor. Becom…

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Jordan Wood: Understanding the Life and Theology of Maximus as Incarnational Synthesis 59:35

11d ago59:35

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Jordan Wood introduces the controversies surrounding the life of Maximus and also introduces the framework of his theology as cosmic incarnation, providing a synthesis for all things. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton

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NH #684: What’s the Problem with Radioactive Nuclear Waste? What’s the Solution? Powerful Symposium at UCSD 59:24

12d ago59:24

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A map of the San Onofre nuclear waste station, showing earthquake faults and the 50 mile radius that would be most impacted by an accident with the current on-site storage of radioactive waste. This Week’s Special Feature The Samuel Lawrence Foundation, in cooperation with the Scripps Oceanography Institute, held a one-day symposium on Radioactive …

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Sermon: The Scripture that Kills Versus the Spirit of Life 23:26

15d ago23:26

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In 2 Corinthians Paul describes the letter or scripture as deadly, as this unenduring reality is not an end in itself. Absolutizing the symbolic order in law or in some form of moral imperative leads directly to evil, not because this is a possible reality but because it obscures the truth that freedom comes from God and there is no autonomous real…

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Orientalism and the Power of Ideology 52:08

17d ago52:08

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In this concluding discussion of Orientalism Jon, Tim, Jim, Simon, Brian, Jonathan, and Paul, consider how human understanding is subject to cultural and nationalistic ideology, shaping science, psychology, and impacting Christianity, particularly in Japan and the United States. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating…

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NH #683: Ohio Radiation Contamination – More Radioactive Water, Soil, Plants Found at Piketon/Portsmouth: Dr. Michael Ketterer 59:11

21d ago59:11

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The shuttered Zahn’s Corner Middle School, shuttered for contamination with nuclear materials from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, only 3 miles away. And now the school district is trying to auction it off “AS-IS” without explaining what the “AS-IS” is?!?!??? This Week’s Featured Interview: To contact Dr. Michael Ketterer and Others Re: POR…

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Sermon: Partakers of Divine Consciousness 24:21

25d ago24:21

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Peter says we are partakers of the divine nature, which the early church called theosis or divinization. This is a concept obscured by western atonement theories and the taking up of Greek philosophical thought, but which in G.W.F. Hegel is reappropriated and expressed as obtaining God's consciousness. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, …

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Orientalism and Cultures of Death 1:02:52

29d ago1:02:52

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John, Jim, Brian, and Paul discuss how Japan reversed western notions of orientalism, particularly in psychology, so as to create a unified national identity dealing in death in both inward self-identity and outward colonialism. Japan is a case in point of how cultures reify death and obscure the truth of what it means to be human. Become a Patron!…

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NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster 59:17

28d ago59:17

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Annual walk to commemorate Church Rock uranium tailings pond disaster on Navajo Nation land – from 2019. Site of the mine and tailings pond in the background. This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders Advocating for Justice – Tina Cordova: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles...…

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Sermon: Kenotic Truth as the Foundation of Consciousness 25:38

1M ago25:38

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In Philippians 2 Paul spells out an alternative picture of God and reality which is often thought to be an exception, but God poured out in Kenotic love on the cross is an alternative conception of God, reality, truth, thinking and consciousness. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…

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The Bhagavad Gita and Sophia 50:41

1M ago50:41

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Matt explains to Jon, Tim, Simon, Jim and Paul how Sergius Bulgakov's sophia provides and explanation for the wisdom to be found in the Gita and world religions. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton

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NH #681: What Youth Want to Know about Nukes + Radioactive Contamination of Food & Water – A Congressional Briefing – Kimberly Roberson 59:11

1M ago59:11

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This Week’s Features: LINKS from this feature: Radioactive Contamination of U.S. Food and Water and What Congress Can Do About It – Upcoming Webinar An interview with Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) and lead organizer for this Congressional briefing. WHERE & WHEN? The briefing will be held via Zoom …

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Sermon: Coming to Christ Outside the City 21:09

1M ago21:09

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Christian nationalism, the Trump Bible (including the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence in the Bible), and Christian Zionism, confuse the City of God with the city of man and the Word of God with the word of man. It is a blasphemous religion on the order of the faith of Judaizers who would displace the Gospel wit…

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Sergius Bulgakov's Divine and Human Sophiology 47:06

1M ago47:06

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Matt Welch, explains to Simon, Jim, Tim, Matthew, Jonathan, Brian, and Paul the work of Sergius Bulgakov on sophiology and how this provides an opening for understanding world religions. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.By Paul Axton

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NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk 57:02

1M ago57:02

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A symbol of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Anti-nuclear activists are often isolated from each other because we focus on what’s most important to us – a local issue with radioactive waste dump, or uranium mining, or weapons, or a spike in health...…

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Sermon: The Embodied Proofs of Christianity 20:21

1M ago20:21

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Christianity is proven in a lived faith, obedience, and love and does not depend upon arguments or evidences other than those living proofs of the embodied faith. Sign up for the next class, Imaginative Apologetics which will run through the first week of July through the week of August 23rd. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a P…

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Cycles of Violence and Deception and Christ's Intervention 1:00:38

2M ago1:00:38

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Jonathan, Matt, Jim, Brian, Matthew and Paul review the development of Girard's picture of the development of sacrificial religion, the darkness of human desire and rivalry, and tie this into shame and the Janus faced God in Hinduism, Vedantic religion, and Christianity gone bad. Sign up for the next class, Imaginative Apologetics which will run th…

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NH #679: Early Xmas for Nukesters – Dangerous ADVANCE Act Guts US Nuclear Oversight, Protections – Diane D’Arrigo 59:14

2M ago59:14

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): Fukushima saki? That’s right – get drunk to ignore the radionuclides that might be in your alcohol! Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter: The ADVANCE Act will gut nuclear safety and keep the Nuclear Navy happy. Hardly anyone on Capitol Hill op…

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Sermon: The Self-Evident Proof of the Gospel 22:13

2M ago22:13

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Apologetic arguments often implicitly misconstrue the nature of Christian truth, which John describes as being witnessed to by the Trinity and this divine Testimony, John says, is present within the believer. Sign up for the next class, Imaginative Apologetics which will run through the first week of July through the week of August 23rd. https://pb…

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Girard and Christ's Exposure of Myth and Deception 53:06

2M ago53:06

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Paul, Tim, Jim, Matt, and Simon discuss how it is that Rene Girard's theory explains and exposes myth and how this applies to the human condition in general. Sign up for the next class, Imaginative Apologetics which will run through the first week of July through the week of August 23rd. https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron…

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NH #678: 13th ANNIVERSARY! + Hinamoeura Cross – France’s Deadly Nuclear Testing Legacy in French Polynesia 59:51

2M ago59:51

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Welcome to the start of the 14th year of Nuclear Hotseat! This Week’s Featured Interview: Hinamoeura Cross of Polynesia and Tina Cordova of New Mexico, both winners of the 2023 Nuclear Free Future Award, embrace in congratulations and commiseration, as both are Downwinders from different parts of the world. Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda...…

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Sermon: The Crucified God as Abba, Father! 20:16

2M ago20:16

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The only route to knowing God as Abba, according to Jürgen Moltmann, is through the crucified God on the cross. This God displaces the oppressive law-giving God of wrath, the God of paganism, but also the oppressive super-ego father of the human psyche. Through Christ we are liberated from the defense mechanism inclusive of the Unmoved Mover - the …

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Deceit, Desire and the Novel with Rene Girard 1:06:50

2M ago1:06:50

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Jim, David, Tim, Simon, and Paul discuss the work of Rene Girard and its unfolding in the novel, as illustrated in both Western and Japanese literature. Sign up for the next class, Imaginative Apologetics https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/offerings Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…

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Practical Universalism 36:52

2M ago36:52

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Tim, Simon, Matt, and Paul discuss how a practical salvation is a 4th category, distinguished from inclusivism, exclusivism, and pluralism in that it is simultaneously universal and specific to the salvation to be found in Christ. How this then provides an approach to other religions is discussed. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, pleas…

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Sermon: The Truth of Christ Versus Truth as Defined by Jordan Peterson 23:09

2M ago23:09

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Jordan Peterson is not simply promoting conservative values but is setting forth his own notion of truth, which has captured many Christians. This sermon sets forth the alternative in which Christ is the Truth, which contrasts with the world's truth as set forth by Peterson. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to …

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