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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 "Nathaniel Hawthorne" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil — 31 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1 — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:36
  3. Ep. 260: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 2 — 16 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  4. Ep. 261: Herman Melville - Moby Dick — 7 mentions · watch from 00:02:40
  5. Ep. 27: I Want What I Want When I Want It! — 6 mentions
  6. Ep. 202a: Robert Farrar Capon - The Mystery and Guilt pt. 1 — 5 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 186: Christmas During the Civil War — 2 mentions · watch from 00:39:14
  8. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 2 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 256: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 1 — 2 mentions · watch from 00:07:55
  10. Ep. 262: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare pt. 1 — 2 mentions · watch from 00:31:35
  11. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 2 mentions · watch from 01:10:58
  12. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 2 mentions · watch from 01:31:11
  13. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 1 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 252: Hamann - We Hear the Blood of the Redeemer Crying Out in Our Heart — 1 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 254: Kierkegaard - Parable of the Geese & the King and Maiden — 1 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3 — 1 mentions · watch from 01:35:12
  17. Ep. 263: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch from 01:42:30
  18. Ep. 264: Flannery O'Connor - Revelation pt. 1 — 1 mentions · watch from 00:37:13
  19. Ep. 265: Flannery O'Connor - Revelation pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch from 02:04:21
  20. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 1 mentions · watch from 00:16:10
  21. Ep. 316: Luther - Letters of Spiritual Counsel to the Anxious and Despondent — 1 mentions · watch from 00:30:55
  22. Ep. 371: Pastoral Debrief - On Storytelling and Myth — 1 mentions · watch from 01:57:19
  23. Ep. 397: Q&A Episode - Civil Disobedience — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  24. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 1 mentions · watch from 02:41:39
  25. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 1 mentions · watch from 02:53:28