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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 "Fyodor Dostoyevsky" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 45: Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Failure of Christendom — 46 mentions
  2. Ep. 256: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 1 — 15 mentions · watch from 00:01:15
  3. Ep. 262: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare pt. 1 — 11 mentions · watch from 00:07:37
  4. Ep. 263: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare pt. 2 — 9 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3 — 8 mentions · watch from 01:36:48
  6. Ep. 243: Grothe - The Change of Lordship in the Christian's Experience — 7 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 257: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 2 — 5 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 41: Augustine - Does Baptism Make Men New? — 5 mentions
  9. Ep. 48: Gillespie and Riley - Q&A The Sequel — 5 mentions
  10. Ep. 253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil — 4 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 39: The Obstinate Toy Soldiers - C.S. Lewis — 4 mentions
  12. Ep. 114: Irenaeus on Free Will and Predestination — 3 mentions · watch from 00:28:32
  13. Ep. 248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims — 3 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 371: Pastoral Debrief - On Storytelling and Myth — 3 mentions · watch from 01:57:00
  15. Ep. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea — 2 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 14: Wait, no, stop! - part 2 — 2 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue — 2 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 198: Simone Weil - The Cross — 2 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 260: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 2 — 2 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 2 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning — 2 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 4: Part 1: Two Natures and Maximum Effort — 2 mentions
  23. Ep. 46: Flannery O'Connor - Good Country People, part 1 — 2 mentions
  24. Ep. 181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God — 1 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom — 1 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 225: Dreher - Bear Communal Witness to Future Generations — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 228: Dreher - A Benda Guide to Child-raising — 1 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 1 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1 — 1 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 261: Herman Melville - Moby Dick — 1 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 264: Flannery O'Connor - Revelation pt. 1 — 1 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 266: C.S. Lewis - Christianity is a religion you could not have guessed — 1 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 268: Josh McDowell - Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? — 1 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 31: Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? Good. — 1 mentions
  36. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 1 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 313: Two Sermons on the Bound Will — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 327: Karl Barth - How to Preach to Prisoners — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 357: Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling — 1 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 390: Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01