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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 of Damascus" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 19 mentions · watch from 01:34:11
  2. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 15 mentions · watch from 00:20:11
  3. Ep. 437: John of Damascus - Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images — 7 mentions · watch from 00:26:14
  4. Ep. 64: John of Damascus - Critique of Islam — 6 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  5. Ep. 65: John of Damascus - Critique of Islam, pt. 2 — 4 mentions · watch from 00:04:23
  6. Ep. 66: John of Damascus, Arius, Ariana — 4 mentions · watch from 00:00:56
  7. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 3 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure — 3 mentions · watch from 00:30:01
  9. Ep. 155: Augustine - Just wars are usually defined as those that avenge injuries — 2 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom — 2 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 2 mentions · watch from 01:19:14
  12. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 2 mentions · watch from 00:58:00
  13. Ep. 67: John of Damascus - 'An argument directed against the Nestorians' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:03:53
  14. Ep. 225: Dreher - Bear Communal Witness to Future Generations — 1 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 329: Venerable Bede - On the Song of Songs — 1 mentions · watch from 00:58:15
  16. Ep. 350: Aelfric and Basil - The Anglo-Saxon Hexameron — 1 mentions · watch from 00:06:33
  17. Ep. 374: Nagel - A Sermon for Christmas Day — 1 mentions · watch from 01:08:42
  18. Ep. 375: A New Year and the Same Old Stuff (Pliny, Clement, and Justin) — 1 mentions · watch from 00:01:51
  19. Ep. 63: Chad Bird - 'The Infant Priest Was Holy Born' — 1 mentions · watch from 00:31:19
  20. Ep. 75: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Life — 1 mentions · watch from 00:01:33