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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 "G.K. Chesterton" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 337: Chesterton - Heretics: X. On Sandals and Simplicity — 21 mentions · watch from 00:04:06
  2. Ep. 100: G.K. Chesterton's 'The Christmas Ballads' — 18 mentions · watch from 00:04:00
  3. Ep. 421: Chesterton - Mankind would have a much worse time if there were no such thing as Christmas or Christmas dinners — 15 mentions · watch from 00:03:29
  4. Ep. 425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact — 13 mentions · watch from 00:07:17
  5. Ep. 181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God — 11 mentions · watch from 00:07:05
  6. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 7 mentions · watch from 00:47:10
  7. Ep. 436: Schuldheisz - Luther and the Lion — 7 mentions · watch from 00:12:04
  8. Ep. 166: C.S. Lewis - Under the aegis of His Church, learning and the arts flourish — 6 mentions · watch from 00:02:45
  9. Ep. 333: Herzberger - The Family Altar at Christmas — 4 mentions · watch from 00:41:51
  10. Ep. 336: Tolkien - On Christian Preaching — 4 mentions · watch from 01:59:19
  11. Ep. 338: Kleinig - Rituals and the Enactment of the Gospel — 3 mentions · watch from 00:03:43
  12. Ep. 349: Martin Luther - The Song of Habakkuk — 3 mentions · watch from 00:10:28
  13. Ep. 101: Augustine, 'Why Celebrate Christmas?' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:05:28
  14. Ep. 17: I feel the need… the need for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ! — 2 mentions
  15. Ep. 184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany — 2 mentions · watch from 00:01:58
  16. Ep. 307: Peterson - Under the Unpredictable Plant — 2 mentions · watch from 00:56:36
  17. Ep. 331: Martyn Lloyd-Jones - The End of the World — 2 mentions · watch from 00:02:44
  18. Ep. 334: MacDonald - The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity — 2 mentions · watch from 00:03:46
  19. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 2 mentions · watch from 00:04:16
  20. Ep. 369: Thielicke - Pathology of the Young Theologian's Conceit — 2 mentions · watch from 00:31:02
  21. Ep. 373: Luther - You have the Mystery of God — 2 mentions · watch from 02:41:42
  22. Ep. 1: C.S. Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' 'On the Incarnation' Part 1 — 1 mentions
  23. Ep. 168: C.S. Lewis - We need intimate knowledge of the past — 1 mentions · watch from 00:25:54
  24. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 1 mentions · watch from 00:43:11
  25. Ep. 182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order — 1 mentions · watch from 00:02:27
  26. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 244: Grothe - The Death of Husband Law — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 319: Graff - Baalism in the Life of the Church — 1 mentions · watch from 00:53:39
  29. Ep. 326: Forde - Loser Takes All, the victory of Christ — 1 mentions · watch from 01:16:42
  30. Ep. 340: St. John Chrysostom - Homily on the Gospel of St. John Chapter Six — 1 mentions · watch from 00:12:12
  31. Ep. 341: St. John Cassian - The Spirit of Acedia — 1 mentions · watch from 01:21:10
  32. Ep. 345: Peterson - We Live in a World Filtered Through the Imagination — 1 mentions · watch from 00:36:58
  33. Ep. 348: Martin Luther on the Prophet Habakkuk — 1 mentions · watch from 00:02:10
  34. Ep. 370: Capon - Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World — 1 mentions · watch from 02:17:53
  35. Ep. 372: Luther - A Lovely and Joyous Sermon — 1 mentions · watch from 01:52:17
  36. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 1 mentions · watch from 02:24:06
  37. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 1 mentions · watch from 00:34:19
  38. Ep. 402: Tolkien - Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth — 1 mentions · watch from 01:11:27
  39. Ep. 404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae — 1 mentions · watch from 01:11:35
  40. Ep. 420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01