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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 "Rod Dreher" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 191b: Solzhenitsyn - We lie to ourselves for assurance — 2 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 217: Dreher - The Unready Christians of Slovakia — 2 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 225: Dreher - Bear Communal Witness to Future Generations — 2 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 286: Lewis - The whole book, indeed, is a picture of the Tree of Life — 2 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 10: According to the Kübler-Ross model, starting your own church is just one of the five stages of divorce. — 1 mentions
  6. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 1 mentions
  7. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 1 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most — 1 mentions · watch from 00:23:46
  9. Ep. 219b: Dreher - The spirit of the therapeutic has conquered the churches — 1 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 230: Dreher - The Christian family is a Survival Strategy for Faith in a Time of Persecution — 1 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 35: Planking with Brennan Manning, part 1 — 1 mentions
  12. Ep. 371: Pastoral Debrief - On Storytelling and Myth — 1 mentions · watch from 00:04:56
  13. Ep. 377: Origen - The Church as Superior to All Things Pagan — 1 mentions · watch from 00:10:57
  14. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 1 mentions · watch from 01:43:14
  15. Ep. 427: Wulfstan - Sermon of the Wolf to the English — 1 mentions · watch from 00:28:04
  16. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 1 mentions · watch from 02:46:29
  17. Ep. 433: Von Schenk - The Crucifixion — 1 mentions · watch from 01:21:04