Best Axtone Podcasts (2026)

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How Christianity Became a Religion 1:03:06

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In this discussion of how it is that Christianity became a religion, much like other religions, Paul, Nat, Jim, Andrew and Karl, discuss the impact of the Constantinian shift, the rise of Divine Satisfaction, the turn to a closed understanding of the world, and the relinquishing of the revolutionary nature of the faith. If you enjoyed this podcast,…

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Sermon: Eucharist as the Completion of Emmanuel 24:51

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Paul Axton preaches: The theme of Mathew captured in Immanuel, is completed in the Lord's Supper, in which the efficacious presence of God is made to bear on the lives of believers in what Hegel calls "actualized Christian Freedom." There is freedom from the violence of blood spilled in the taking up of the blood of Christ in the life of believers.…

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Episode #268: Fred Armisen (Ernie Kovacs Award, VideoFest) 48:37

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Today, we are doing something different but not totally unprecedented. Last year in 2024, we presented a bonus episode, recorded live at the Texas Theater in Dallas, Texas with Ernie Kovacs award winner, Gerald Casale from Devo at VideoFest. This year, we'd like to present this year…

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Emmanuel: The Presence of God as the Resolution to the Human Predicament 43:15

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Paul Axton preaches: In this Christmas Sermon the role of presence ("God with us") and absence is traced in Scripture as the primary theme fulfilled in Christ; a theme also recognized in postmodern philosophy. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Episode #267: Tamar Springer (Philip Springer) 1:25:39

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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to guest Tamar Springer about her composer/songwriter father Philip Springer. Now, unless you are in music publishing or a collector of film soundtracks or possibly a musical academic, the name Philip Springer might not seem like a name you would know. A ha, but if I told you he was the composer & c…

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An Expanded View of Recapitulation 1:00:17

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In this continuation of discussions of sin and salvation, Paul Axton takes up and expands upon the early church understanding of recapitulation as an all-embracing understanding of atonement that accounts for the New Testament and the focus on the new divinized humanity found in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to suppo…

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The Rule of Faith and Deliverance from the Law of Sin and Death 54:25

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In a continuation of the discussion of the nature of sin and salvation and hermeneutics, the discussion turns to how the rule of faith, or biblical hermeneutics centered on the person of Christ, brings out Christ's deliverance from the human predicament through his defeat of the rule of death over human lives. This is not an answer defined by law, …

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Episode #266: Ed Eckstine (Billy Eckstine) 1:30:14

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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Ed Eckstine, son of smooth as silk singer & bandleader Billy Eckstine. Our chat with Ed was funny, educational, occasionally jaw dropping and always engaging. Now, before we even started our chat with Ed, upon his agreeing to be a part of the podcast, we got a list of t…

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Acting on The Walking Dead, Scenes with Angela Bassett & Finding His Musical Voice – Glenn Stanton 1:08:18

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Actor and musician Glenn Stanton (aka Six String Guillotine), has acted alongside Angela Bassett, Morris Chestnut, and appeared on The Walking Dead. But after the Hollywood strikes and a self-discovery journey, he found himself staring down the darkest moment of his life… and choosing between a 9mm and a six-string guitar. In this episode of What’s…

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Sin and Salvation: The Gospel as the Coherence of Scripture 1:07:50

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In this new series on sin and salvation, Paul Axton introduces a series on theories of atonement, beginning with Christ as the "rule of faith" interpreting Scripture and exegeting God. The issues of psychological healing in connection to death drive, cosmic bondage and apocalyptic deliverance, and the eternality of the historical Christ are introdu…

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Jesus as Temple Recapitulation: Transformation of Historical Good Friday into Speculative Good Friday 39:37

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In this talk Paul Axton gave at a local restaurant, the focus is on outlining the Gospel of Matthew as Jesus as Temple recapitulation, the implication of which is Jesus taking up the historical, social, and legal situation of the Temple and Israel, and this is worked out by Gillian Rose and G.W.F. Hegel as addressing the injustice of the law and th…

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Episode #265: Kat Kramer (Stanley Kramer) 1:42:14

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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Katherine Kramer, daughter of producer/director Stanley Kramer. Our chat with Katherine or Kat was both edifying and easy as we had familial connections and we learned a few things in the process. Such as? Well how about what famous actress was she named after, where in …

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Overcoming Dualism in the Body and the Bible Through the Synthesis of Christ 59:01

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Brad and Paul discuss the work of Wittgenstein, Maximus, Hegel and Bulgakov as they converge on embodied synthesis in Christ and then extend the conversation to the synthesis of Scripture overcoming the contention in Job, Daniel, Maccabees, and Jonah over the split and violent or unified and peaceable image of God. If you enjoyed this podcast, plea…

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Philosophy of Science: The Coherence of Creation 47:44

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In a continuation of the discussion of Philosophy of Science, the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake about the dogmatism of science, leads to a discussion of the work of Christopher Kaiser on the creationist tradition and the development of science. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Episode #264: Matt Axton (Hoyt Axton) 1:22:58

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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are speaking to musician Matt Axton about his larger-than-life actor, musician, spokesman and songwriter dad, Hoyt Axton. Now if you grew up in the eighties, you would know Hoyt from Gremlins. If you grew up in the 70s, you'd know him as the songwriter to the smash hit "Joy To The Wor…

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She Sang with Dave Chappelle, Appeared on The Voice, and Toured with Tom Sandoval — Maddi Fraser 59:24

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Maddi Fraser has lived multiple artistic lives — The Voice, America’s Got Talent, touring the country with Tom Sandoval, singing on stage with Dave Chappelle, writing comedy musicals, going viral on TikTok, and building a real career in Los Angeles. In this episode of What’s The Key, Broadway B sits down with Maddi for a brutally honest conversatio…

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Personal Knowledge: The Debate Over Philosophy of Science Between Kuhn and Polanyi 1:04:41

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This discussion of the teleological argument takes us into modern philosophy of science and the debate between Thomas Kuhn and Michael Polanyi. Paul Axton demonstrates the superiority of Polanyi's thought as reaching beyond Kuhn's stunted understanding. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Sermon: Jesus Sign of Halting Sacrificial Violence in the Temple 25:27

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Paul Axton preaches: Jesus sign in the Temple is not simply pointing to the need to clean up the pricing system but to halt the economy of violent sacrifice and to deliver his sheep into an alternative nonviolent way of being human. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Episode #263: Denise Gautier (Dick Gautier) 1:30:42

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Today on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Denise Gautier, daughter of actor, painter, artist and raconteur Dick Gautier. Perhaps best known for his role of Hymie in the TV series Get Smart even though he was only on a limited number of episodes, we delve into the wonderful and sometimes difficult world of what i…

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Origen of Alexandria as the Answer to the Failure of the Kalam Cosmological Argument 1:25:11

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In this discussion Paul Axton explains the failure of William Lane Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument and how it is that Origen of Alexandria provides the resolution in his view of time and eternity brought together in Christ. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Sermon: The Semiotic Shift in the Sign of Jonah 35:20

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Paul Axton preaches: Jesus says he will provide no sign other than that of Jonah to the Jews, which is a kind of non-sign in their value system. Jesus, like Jonah, presents a very different picture of God than Nahum and the Jews of Jonah and Jesus generation. This God cares for all and would go to the depths of the earth to retrieve everyone. If yo…

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Episode #262 Sam Nelson (Rick Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson) (Part Two) 50:19

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Sam Nelson (Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson) (Part Two) Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we present for you part two of our interview with Sam Nelson, son of Rick Nelson and grandson of Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson. In the 1950s The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a massive hit television show and ran for 14 years that made both Rick, then k…

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From Mae Axton’s Elvis Era to Matt Axton’s Tour Era — Legacy, Community & The Business of Music 1:02:05

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Matt Axton carries a family legacy that helped shape American music — and he’s forging his own path on the road today. In this episode, we dig into how his grandmother co-wrote Elvis Presley’s first million-selling hit (“Heartbreak Hotel”), how his father penned “Joy to the World (Jeremiah was a bullfrog)”, and why Blake Shelton’s first big break s…

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Theology After Maximus, Hegel, and Wittgenstein 1:46:04

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Continuing our discussion in Imaginative Apologetics, we discuss the view of the embodied understanding of Maximus and Hegel reflected in Wittgenstein in which the world is synthesized through embodiment and language. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!…

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Sermon: Responding to Empire with Violence or as a Martyr 29:09

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Paul Axton preaches: Do we respond to empire with the resurrection faith of the nonviolent martyrs of Daniel and Maccabees or with the violence of the Mattathias and his friends in the Maccabean revolt. Jesus identity with the Son of Man of Daniel and his invoking the nonviolent response to the coming desolation and destruction portrayed in Maccabe…

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Episode #261: Sam Nelson (Rick Nelson, Kristin Nelson) (Part One) 51:39

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Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, encore edition, we are talking to Sam Nelson, the son of actor/musician Rick Nelson aka Ricky Nelson and actress mother Kristin Nelson). He also has some pretty famous grandparents, an uncle, brothers, a sister and likely more relatives who spent some time in front of the camera and the microphone we discuss as w…

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Reflections on Anthony Bartlett's Course "Human Language: Signs of God" 1:17:11

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Brad and Paul reflect on the course recently completed with Anthony Bartlett, and discuss how this picture of a semiotic shift surrounding Christ serves as an alternative reading of the Bible and reality. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!By Paul Axton

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Sermon: What is a Jew and Who is God? 28:03

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Paul Axton preaches: This sermon compares two understandings of Israel and God as presented in Nehemiah, Ezra, and Ruth, with Ruth the Moabite foreigner serving in the messianic line and as a kinsman redeemer through her faithful loving kindness, over and against the retributive picture of God and exclusive picture of Jews in Ezra and Nehemiah. If …

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Episode #260: Radames Pera (Lisa Pera) (Part Two) 50:53

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Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to guest Radames Pera on part two of our conversation about growing up a child actor to actress Lisa Pera. Like episode one of our conversation last week, we dig into some really intense and really dark places that have to be heard to be believed. As the young Grasshopper …

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Working With Punch & TDE, Being In The Room When “Umbrella” Was Made, Diddy Writing Camps & More 1:01:48

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Roberto Horns joins us to tell wild stories and hard-earned lessons from being inside the rooms with TDE/Punch & SZA, Tricky Stewart & The-Dream during the making of “Umbrella,” an Akon surprise house visit, a Diddy writing camp, and assistant-engineering on Usher x R. Kelly “Same Girl.” But the real value is the blueprint: how to turn momentum int…

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Emmanuel Katongole On Teaching Nonviolence Through the Land 1:21:32

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Notre Dame Professor Emmanuel Katongole, founder of Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, describes the theology and work of nonviolence in a world divided by violence and hatred. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Become a Patron!By Paul Axton

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Sermon: The Biblical Contention About God Resolved in Christ 30:57

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Paul Axton preaches: There are competing images of God in the Bible between a God of law and vengeance and the God of mercy and love. This contention is resolved in Christ in which true deity is found in the face of the forgiving human victim, and this highlights a theme traceable throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. If you enjoyed this podcast, pleas…