Girard Versus Girard

Paul Axton preaches: Paul's depiction of the transformation of the mind is a remaking of the human subject, inclusive of the ordering of their mental life, focused as it is on staid givens of nature and law (as posed in the psychology of Carl Jung), and a remaking along the sign joined to its signified in baptism and the gift of the Spirit. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Kenneth Tanner describes the humanity of God and the deity of humanity as portrayed in his recent book, Vulnerable God. He also describes his personal journey to this discovery and the psychic realization this involves. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Vulnerable-God-Assumptions-God-Rediscovering-ebook/dp/B0GX2B4QM4?ref_=ast_author_mpb&th=1/ If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Paul Axton preaches: This sermon, utilizing the biblical, psychological, and anthropological picture of language, shows how the Logos of Christ brings about new channels of understanding reshaping the mind from a left-brain legal understanding to a right-brain personal and relational realization.  If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Anthony Bartlett describes how Cyrus repeats the Exodus event in nonviolence, leading to the image of the Suffering Servant and a nonviolent God.  (Sign up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

Paul Axton preaches: Jesus declares he will only provide the sign of Jonah, which is a new structuring of signs and language, built not on the word of man but the Logos of God.  (Sign up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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 revelation. Failing to delineate these two sides of Girard has given us the sick Girardianism prevailing in this political and cultural moment. (Sign up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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 up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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 Journeying Towards Nonviolence: My Life in Sudan.  (Sign up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule) If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!

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!

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. (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!