Episode Archive
Banned Books

Banned Books Podcast

With Donavon Riley & Christopher Gillespie
— Episodes
— Authors
— Topics
60 Glossary

Listen & Subscribe

▶ 1517.org Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Overcast Podcast Addict RSS

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 "John Bunyan" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 59: John Bunyan - The Doctrine of Law & Grace Unfolded — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:45
  2. Ep. 77: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Vanity Fair — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:11
  3. Ep. 81: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Celestial City pt.2 — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:03
  4. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 16 mentions · watch from 00:09:49
  5. Ep. 73: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The City of Destruction — 16 mentions · watch from 00:00:23
  6. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 14 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  7. Ep. 78: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House REDUX — 13 mentions · watch from 00:00:14
  8. Ep. 79: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Doubting Castle — 13 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  9. Ep. 76: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Shadow of Death — 11 mentions · watch from 00:00:14
  10. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 10 mentions · watch from 00:07:56
  11. Ep. 75: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Life — 9 mentions · watch from 00:00:16
  12. Ep. 80: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Celestial City pt. 1 — 9 mentions · watch from 00:00:41
  13. Ep. 27: I Want What I Want When I Want It! — 8 mentions
  14. Ep. 430: Tolkien - The Journey Through the Desert: The Lenten Quest — 8 mentions · watch from 00:04:18
  15. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 7 mentions · watch from 00:51:03
  16. Ep. 415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will — 7 mentions · watch from 00:28:29
  17. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 6 mentions
  18. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 4 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 4 mentions · watch from 00:02:34
  20. Ep. 72: C.S. Lewis - The Incarnation from 'The Joyful Christian' — 4 mentions · watch from 00:42:44
  21. Ep. 286: Lewis - The whole book, indeed, is a picture of the Tree of Life — 3 mentions · watch from 00:37:25
  22. Ep. 115: Clement of Alexandria on Free Will and Predestination — 2 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 213a: Paulson - Becoming a servant of all and a saint in this world — 2 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 220: Dreher - Progressivism as Religion — 2 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 267: C.S. Lewis - It is no good asking for a simple religion — 2 mentions · watch from 02:19:04
  26. Ep. 303: Thomas Cranmer - The Collects of Easter — 2 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 357: Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling — 2 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 2 mentions · watch from 00:57:06
  29. Ep. 82: Norman E. Nagel, 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:04:41
  30. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  31. Ep. 84: Norman E. Nagel, The Spirit's Gifts from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:08:59
  32. Ep. 116: Erasmus, The Danger in Assertions — 1 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now! — 1 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 198: Simone Weil - The Cross — 1 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 212: Tocqueville - Religion Considered as a Political Institution — 1 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin's Origin of Species — 1 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 252: Hamann - We Hear the Blood of the Redeemer Crying Out in Our Heart — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1 — 1 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 266: C.S. Lewis - Christianity is a religion you could not have guessed — 1 mentions · watch