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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 "C.S. Lewis" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure — 20 mentions · watch from 00:02:35
  2. Ep. 425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact — 20 mentions · watch from 00:07:17
  3. Ep. 429: Lewis - ''Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her — 15 mentions · watch from 00:00:04
  4. Ep. 1: C.S. Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' 'On the Incarnation' Part 1 — 13 mentions
  5. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 12 mentions
  6. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 12 mentions · watch from 00:06:39
  7. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 11 mentions · watch from 00:38:19
  8. Ep. 300: C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed — 8 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  9. Ep. 71: C.S. Lewis - The Fall of Man from 'The Joyful Christian' — 8 mentions · watch from 00:00:33
  10. Ep. 286: Lewis - The whole book, indeed, is a picture of the Tree of Life — 7 mentions · watch from 00:00:09
  11. Ep. 3: Part 3: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 7 mentions
  12. Ep. 247: Grothe - How to 'Save the World' — 6 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 266: C.S. Lewis - Christianity is a religion you could not have guessed — 6 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  14. Ep. 267: C.S. Lewis - It is no good asking for a simple religion — 6 mentions · watch from 00:00:06
  15. Ep. 430: Tolkien - The Journey Through the Desert: The Lenten Quest — 6 mentions · watch from 00:06:54
  16. Ep. 81: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Celestial City pt.2 — 6 mentions · watch from 00:00:24
  17. Ep. 268: Josh McDowell - Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? — 5 mentions · watch from 00:00:58
  18. Ep. 371: Pastoral Debrief - On Storytelling and Myth — 5 mentions · watch from 00:29:55
  19. Ep. 39: The Obstinate Toy Soldiers - C.S. Lewis — 5 mentions
  20. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 4 mentions · watch from 00:01:22
  21. Ep. 5: Part 2: Two Natures and Maximum Effort — 4 mentions
  22. Ep. 72: C.S. Lewis - The Incarnation from 'The Joyful Christian' — 4 mentions · watch from 00:00:26
  23. Ep. 73: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The City of Destruction — 4 mentions · watch from 00:04:25
  24. Ep. 168: C.S. Lewis - We need intimate knowledge of the past — 3 mentions · watch from 00:02:39
  25. Ep. 244: Grothe - The Death of Husband Law — 3 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 257: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 2 — 3 mentions · watch from 00:12:34
  27. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 3 mentions · watch from 00:00:54
  28. Ep. 324: Ristau - Demonic Games and Mental Health — 3 mentions · watch from 01:29:30
  29. Ep. 352: Gregory of Nazianzus - Letter 58 To Basil — 3 mentions · watch from 00:14:57
  30. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 3 mentions · watch from 02:38:50
  31. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 3 mentions · watch from 00:03:21
  32. Ep. 47: Flannery O'Connor - Good Country People, part 2 — 3 mentions
  33. Ep. 6: Part 1 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again. — 3 mentions
  34. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 3 mentions · watch from 00:13:58
  35. Ep. 166: C.S. Lewis - Under the aegis of His Church, learning and the arts flourish — 2 mentions · watch from 00:00:44
  36. Ep. 167: C.S. Lewis - Under the aegis of His Church, learning and the arts flourish — 2 mentions
  37. Ep. 174: Henry Patrick Reardon - Divine Wrath is not Some Sort of Irritation — 2 mentions · watch from 00:03:13
  38. Ep. 240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation — 2 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 246: Grothe - Set Free for Life — 2 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 265: Flannery O'Connor - Revelation pt. 2 — 2 mentions · watch from 02:05:42