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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 "John Chrysostom" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 379: Chrysostom - On Wealth and Poverty — 32 mentions · watch from 00:02:39
  2. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 19 mentions · watch from 01:16:35
  3. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 16 mentions · watch from 00:16:08
  4. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 15 mentions · watch from 00:20:11
  5. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 12 mentions · watch from 00:47:35
  6. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 12 mentions · watch from 00:19:27
  7. Ep. 381: Kleinig - The Things That Make a Theologian — 11 mentions · watch from 00:08:48
  8. Ep. 340: St. John Chrysostom - Homily on the Gospel of St. John Chapter Six — 9 mentions · watch from 00:00:09
  9. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 8 mentions · watch from 00:15:22
  10. Ep. 430: Tolkien - The Journey Through the Desert: The Lenten Quest — 8 mentions · watch from 00:04:18
  11. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 7 mentions · watch from 00:04:07
  12. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 7 mentions · watch from 00:21:05
  13. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 6 mentions · watch from 00:35:23
  14. Ep. 393: Table Talk — 4 mentions · watch from 00:42:57
  15. Ep. 341: St. John Cassian - The Spirit of Acedia — 3 mentions · watch from 00:21:35
  16. Ep. 376: Origen - Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans — 3 mentions · watch from 00:55:29
  17. Ep. 63: Chad Bird - 'The Infant Priest Was Holy Born' — 3 mentions · watch from 00:03:04
  18. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 2 mentions · watch from 01:18:59
  19. Ep. 335: Gregory the Great - Pastoral Rule — 2 mentions · watch from 00:19:45
  20. Ep. 342: Luther - Now the Works of the Flesh are Plain — 2 mentions · watch from 00:03:48
  21. Ep. 343: Cyril of Jerusalem - Mystagogical Catechesis — 2 mentions · watch from 00:53:05
  22. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 2 mentions · watch from 00:02:31
  23. Ep. 348: Martin Luther on the Prophet Habakkuk — 2 mentions · watch from 00:47:08
  24. Ep. 349: Martin Luther - The Song of Habakkuk — 2 mentions · watch from 01:36:26
  25. Ep. 351: Gregory of Nyssa - The Life of Moses — 2 mentions · watch from 00:55:42
  26. Ep. 153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 157: John MacArthur, Christ not Caesar is the Head of the Church — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 159: Zempel - Churches Aren''t Avoiding Death By Keeping Their Doors Closed. They''re Ensuring It — 1 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 231: Dreher - Small Communities Can Rescue the Lone Individual — 1 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 1 mentions · watch from 01:14:21
  31. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 1 mentions · watch from 00:46:03
  32. Ep. 308: Augustine - On Christian Teaching — 1 mentions · watch from 00:57:46
  33. Ep. 313: Two Sermons on the Bound Will — 1 mentions · watch from 01:48:24
  34. Ep. 333: Herzberger - The Family Altar at Christmas — 1 mentions · watch from 01:32:06
  35. Ep. 346: Irenaeus - On the Passion — 1 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 347: Bornkamm - The God of the Old Testament — 1 mentions · watch from 00:32:11
  37. Ep. 350: Aelfric and Basil - The Anglo-Saxon Hexameron — 1 mentions · watch from 00:51:13
  38. Ep. 353: Bede the Venerable - Transfiguration Homily for Lent — 1 mentions · watch from 00:55:49
  39. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 1 mentions · watch from 02:33:39
  40. Ep. 362: Olson - Putting Second Things Second — 1 mentions · watch from 01:40:30