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Banned Books

Banned Books Podcast

With Donavon Riley & Christopher Gillespie
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Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seek to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Some were faithful to the end, and are safe in Jesus' death. Many lost their way and ended up expressing the biggest bad news of all, that we must stop sinning if we want God to like us.

But, we all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. They dare to be called fools for Christ's sake even when their own church throws ever larger stumbling blocks in front of them. This is the Banned Books podcast. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.

Your Hosts

Donavon Riley
Host
Husband, father, and pastor. Host of Banned Books and Warrior Priest. Author of Crucifying Religion and The Withertongue Emails. He has written hundreds of articles, teaches mixed martial arts, and considers himself a story-teller and friend of trees.
Christopher Gillespie
Host
Husband, father, Lutheran pastor, and media producer (gillespie.media). A coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee) who produces content for 1517, Higher Things, Doxology, CPH Music, and Concordia Theological Seminary.

Reading List

Where "Augustine of Hippo" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 40: Martin Luther - Don't Be Afraid to Be a Sinner — 6 mentions
  2. Ep. 25: All this damage - and it's old Adam's fault. — 4 mentions
  3. Ep. 154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity — 3 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 3 mentions
  5. Ep. 20: One sermon, two men, maximum effort — 3 mentions
  6. Ep. 303: Thomas Cranmer - The Collects of Easter — 3 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 3 mentions
  8. Ep. 36: Advent Planking with Brennan Manning, part 2 — 3 mentions
  9. Ep. 376: Origen - Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans — 3 mentions · watch from 00:21:57
  10. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 3 mentions · watch from 00:37:57
  11. Ep. 409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity — 3 mentions · watch from 00:54:55
  12. Ep. 101: Augustine, 'Why Celebrate Christmas?' — 2 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 2 mentions
  14. Ep. 21: Just Follow The Step by Step Instructions — 2 mentions
  15. Ep. 24: Your Theology Is Creating A Nice Little Climate of Panic — 2 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 27: I Want What I Want When I Want It! — 2 mentions
  17. Ep. 272: Augustine - The authority of Scripture should be respected and accepted with the purest faith — 2 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 3: Part 3: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 2 mentions
  19. Ep. 304: Anselm of Canterbury - On Free Will — 2 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 32: Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? We're Not Done Yet. — 2 mentions
  21. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 2 mentions · watch from 00:02:31
  22. Ep. 374: Nagel - A Sermon for Christmas Day — 2 mentions · watch from 01:15:05
  23. Ep. 38: The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel - Luther's Christmas Book — 2 mentions
  24. Ep. 390: Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God — 2 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  25. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 2 mentions · watch from 00:09:13
  26. Ep. 408: Nestigen - Luther and Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will — 2 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  27. Ep. 45: Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Failure of Christendom — 2 mentions
  28. Ep. 73: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The City of Destruction — 2 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 2 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 117: Erasmus, The Obscurity of Scripture — 1 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 124: Martin Luther - We are justified... by relief outside of us — 1 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 15: With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled preaching — 1 mentions
  33. Ep. 172: Henry Patrick Reardon - To Take One's Stand and to Keep Watch — 1 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 18: Now... okay, so, angels as people, tell me about that. Walk me through it. — 1 mentions
  35. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 1 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 188: Kennedy - This communist doctrine that God is something we can take or leave — 1 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 210b: Hitchens - Eschatology is inseparable from religious faith — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 28: I Want What I Want When I Want It... Again! — 1 mentions
  40. Ep. 280: Augustine - The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law — 1 mentions · watch