Best Ploughshares Podcasts (2024)

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

26m 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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NH #680: Nat’l Nuclear Activism & Messaging Strategies – ReThink Media’s Mac Hamilton, Ploughshares Fund’s Bonnie Fisk 57:02

10d 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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NH #682: Ugly July 16 Nuclear Anniversaries: Trinity Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Disaster 59:17

1h 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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The Bhagavad Gita and Sophia 50:41

5d 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

2d 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

5d 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

7d 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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Sermon: The Embodied Proofs of Christianity 20:21

18d 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

14d 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

17d 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

20d 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

21d 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

24d 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

28d 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

1M 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

1M 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

1M 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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Religion as Communities of Practice 1:00:17

2M ago1:00:17

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Simon, Tim, Matt, Jim, and Paul discuss how narrative theology or what is known as the Yale School or postliberalism defines Christianity as a community of practice, which can serve as entry into understanding religion in general. Following the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, narrative theologians such as George Lindbeck, Stanley Hauerwas, James McCle…

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NH #676: The Nuclear Weapons/Nuclear Energy Connection, Costs, Fears – Alfred Meyer of PSR, Dr. Gordon Edwards 59:02

1M ago59:02

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This Week’s First Featured Interview: Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility, mid-Zoom interview This Week’s Second Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, addressing the United Nations What Scares Me Most about Nuclear: Excerpts from last year’s Halloween feature: “What Scares Me Most about Nuclear.” I spoke with more than 30 activis…

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Sermon: Self-Emptying Love as Entry into the Truth of Divinity 22:09

2M ago22:09

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In Philippians Paul portrays kenotic love as the very substance of divine reality, power, and truth, and it is in imitating this self-emptying love and not grasping after life that we become imitators of Christ and a community of the Spirit. This marks the central message of Paul rediscovered by Hegel. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, …

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NH #675: RECA Held Hostage by Mike Johnson’s Stupid Congress Tricks – Nuclear Victims’ Compensation Act Down to the Wire – Mary Dickson 59:15

1M ago59:15

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The Miller Map. The path radioactive fallout took from the 100 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Actually, it took three or more nuclear fallout clouds overhead to make it onto this map. Compiled by Richard Miller, author of Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing. This Week’s Featured Interview: PHONE NUMBERS TO CONTACT CONGRESS...…

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Trent Maxey On the Engineering and Creation of Shinto in Modern Japan 1:25:28

2M ago1:25:28

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Trent Maxey, Professor at Amhurst College and author of "The Greatest Problem" runs down how Shinto as a native religion is an invention of the modern state in Japan, and how the "secular" state has used Shinto on the order of the American deployment of Christianity. He describes the dishonesty in supposed neutrality toward religion, and the differ…

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Sermon: Becoming Persons 24:28

2M ago24:28

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God is love is definitive of God's personhood and the opening of his personhood in Kenotic Love is the possibility of personhood. This personhood of knowing God is definitive of the personal and of what it means to know and think as persons. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.…

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NH #674: The Passing of an Anti-Nuclear Activist Hero: Patti Ameno 59:14

2M ago59:14

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Patti Ameno (also Patty, Patricia) grew up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, 35 miles NE of Pittsburgh, not realizing that her childhood home was directly across the street from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC manufactured fuel for commercial nuclear power plants and the Navy’s nuclear submarines, leaving behind a legacy of uranium an…

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Trent Maxey Challenges the Secularization Thesis 47:37

2M ago47:37

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Trent Maxey, of Amhurst College and author of "The Greatest Problem" on delineating the role of the secular, political and religious in Japan, continues to address the problem of a too simple narrative of secular and religious, and even of the way power functions. Jim, Matt, Jon, Simon, and Paul join the discussion. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed …

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Sermon: I Am That I am Therefore I Think 17:29

2M ago17:29

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Acknowledgement of God and access to wisdom, reason, and understanding of the self and the world are synonymous. Where Kant and the modern age deny access to God as foundation to reason, and attempt to establish foundations within reason, the Bible and Hegel point to God as the possibility giving rise to reason. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this…

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NH #673: Uranium Film Festival Closes US Tour in Las Vegas, RECA DC Lobbying Update, Godzilla B-Day Marathon + the Passing of Activist Patti Ameno 59:02

2M ago59:02

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This Week’s Featured Interviews: Some weeks, it’s time to catch up with a number of stories. So here we present a series of short interviews covering a range of issues that are up for us right now. International Uranium Film Festival co-Founder and Director Norbert Suchanek, seen here hard at work from his North American...…

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Atomic Assembly: RECA 32:33

2M ago32:33

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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was created by the federal government to partially compensate Americans who developed certain diseases as a result of being exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons production. Advocates are working to save the program, which is expiring on June 7. Guests include Christen Commuso (Missouri Coalition f…

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Trent Maxey on "The Greatest Problem" of Defining Religion 1:04:15

2M ago1:04:15

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Trent Maxey, Professor at Amhurst College and author of the book, "The Greatest Problem" describes the amorphous nature of Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam in connection with culture, economics, violence, and modernity. He questions the usual categories under which religion, east and west, is perceived and points to our continual enmeshmen…

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Sermon: Incarnational Knowing as the Goal of Creation - from John to Hegel 25:30

2M ago25:30

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The Prologue of John depicts the point of creation as incarnation and this is fulfilled through the Spirit. God would be known throughout creation as Christ knows him and makes him known, and this is the point of history and the work of the Spirit as depicted in John, developed by Origen and Maximus, and built upon by G.W.F. Hegel. Become a Patron!…

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