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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 "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 102: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Cheap Grace vs. Costly Grace' — 13 mentions · watch from 00:05:24
  2. Ep. 103: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Cheap Grace vs. Costly Grace' pt. 2 — 9 mentions · watch from 00:00:24
  3. Ep. 104: Hermann Sasse against National Socialism — 8 mentions · watch from 00:02:11
  4. Ep. 26: Let out the Viking, but keep him on the chain… — 3 mentions
  5. Ep. 130: Martin Luther - The Totality of a Christian's Wisdom is to be Unacquainted with the Law — 2 mentions · watch from 00:09:36
  6. Ep. 205a: Scott Keith - Debrief on Two Kingdoms, Social Media, and Local Vocation — 2 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 2 mentions · watch from 02:44:32
  8. Ep. 1: C.S. Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' 'On the Incarnation' Part 1 — 1 mentions
  9. Ep. 116: Erasmus, The Danger in Assertions — 1 mentions · watch from 00:09:46
  10. Ep. 177: Clement of Alexandria - True martyrdom is the knowledge of the only true God — 1 mentions
  11. Ep. 190: Kennedy - The Gospel deals with all of life, because it comes to heal the whole man — 1 mentions · watch from 01:45:27
  12. Ep. 203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody — 1 mentions · watch from 00:13:42
  13. Ep. 27: I Want What I Want When I Want It! — 1 mentions
  14. Ep. 370: Capon - Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World — 1 mentions · watch from 02:24:49
  15. Ep. 408: Nestigen - Luther and Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  16. Ep. 414: Luther - God is extravagantly rich in His grace — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  17. Ep. 68: Robert Capon - The Mystery of Christ, and why we don't get it... — 1 mentions · watch from 00:12:04
  18. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 1 mentions · watch from 00:02:56