Paul Axton preaches: The election of Donald Trump and evangelical support for Trump is a living proof that white supremacy is alive and well, not in spite of, but because of evangelical Christians. Is a faith that requires oppression and exclusion, which explicitly tolerates and promotes white supremacy, “Christianity"? Isn’t this, as Douglas would have it, ... Show More
Jun 15
Sermon: The Intimate Universal Logos
Paul Axton preaches: This sermon develops John Behr's understanding of the Logos along with William Desmond's picture of the betweenness of the intimate universal. (Register for the course, Metaxology, taught by William Desmond, which will cover the philosophy and theology of Wil ... Show More
27m 16s
Jun 8
David Dawson on the Word as the Recovery of Language
In this final class with David Dawson, David answers key question regarding Christ's recovery of language as the Word, the exposure of the victim, and the overcoming of religion. (Register for the course, Metaxology, taught by William Desmond, which will cover the philosophy and ... Show More
58m 11s
Jun 6
Sermon: Peace of the Intimate Universal
Paul Axton preaches: Jesus' promise of peace, not as the world gives but his peace, is the beginning of an alternative subjectivity which William Desmond calls the "intimate universal" or an opening of a communicative subjectivity with the transcendent. (Register for the course, ... Show More
33m 13s
Oct 2022
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American pu ... Show More
50m 52s
Feb 2025
#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right
<p>Sam Harris speaks with Katherine Stewart about her new book, <em>Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy</em>. They discuss Project 2025, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, whether the backlash against wokeness has been overblown, the asymm ... Show More
32m 37s
<p> <!-- wp:paragraph {"dropCap":true,"beyondwordsMarker":"980a320e-4be4-4ed3-a858-2d958f81a35c"} --></p> <p class="has-drop-cap">Some recent polling suggests that the number of those who identify with no religion has hit a ceiling, and it may even be declining. At the same time, ... Show More
<p> <!-- wp:paragraph {"dropCap":true,"beyondwordsMarker":"fca6109f-4a17-4e44-bca3-3f9563cfcf6c"} --></p> <p class="has-drop-cap">Is Christianity a useful religion to the West? Atheist Richard Dawkins recently claimed that, while still an atheist, he considers himself a "cultural ... Show More
