Anthony Bartlett continues to unfold his nonviolent reading of God and Scripture in a comparison of Job and Deuteronomy, in which Job gives voice to the nonviolent, non-retributive, understanding of God, posed against the retributive justice of his friends as found in Deuteronomy. 

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Paul Axton preaches: The alternative to 9/11 and the threat of nuclear war is that the meek alone will inherit the Earth. Violent conquest through nuclear destruction points to the singular solution.

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David, Jonathan, and Paul, discuss the profound influence of Wendell Berry on each of us in realizing the spiritual sense of place and belonging, addressing also alienation, racism, waywardness, and the redemptive grace made available in friendship.

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Paul Axton Preaches: The particular expression of spiritual rootedness found in Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton is an entry into the meaning of universal salvation.

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Anthony Bartlett provides a Girardian reading of Genesis and Exodus, in which the Hebrew people are formed from oppressed outcasts, and in which liberation from violence and oppression, through the experience of Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, and the experience of Abraham, provides for the formation of the nonviolence pictured in creation and culminating in Christ.

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Paul Axton preaches: There is an apocalyptic logic laid out in the New Testament, which the Lutheran notion of justification misses, in which there is a crisis and implosion, an attempt to silence God, and it is from the midst of this attempt to destroy him that Christ speaks. 

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Anthony Bartlett explains to Brad and Paul the significance of Benoît Chantre, the biographer and last key conversation partner with René Girard with whom the book Battling to the End, Girard's last word. Chantre attempts to direct Girard away from a dark apocalypticism toward what he calls an intimate mediation in Christ.

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Paul Axton preaches: Paul describes the "end of the law" which is "nailed to the cross" and "set aside" along with the power of the "rulers and authorities" so that a fulness of Paul's reading gets beyond Luther's constricted understanding of grace and faith which are still functioning on the basis of the law.

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Brad and Paul discuss how Slavoj Žižek Extends the insights of René Girard, providing a deep reading of the problem of the law, accounting for Luther's depression, in spite of his discovery of "justification."

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Brad and Paul discuss the sermon that follows, showing that the Lutheran connection between Paul and the Law, often portrayed in a Lutheran-like conversion, misconstrues Judaism and the Law, and missed the apocalyptic failure and salvation Paul is portraying. 

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