Episode Archive
Banned Books

Banned Books Podcast

With Donavon Riley & Christopher Gillespie
Episodes
Authors
Topics
60 Glossary

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 "Søren Kierkegaard" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 6: Part 1 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again. — 61 mentions
  2. Ep. 7: Part 2 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again — 16 mentions
  3. Ep. 357: Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling — 11 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  4. Ep. 254: Kierkegaard - Parable of the Geese & the King and Maiden — 8 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 31: Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? Good. — 8 mentions
  6. Ep. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god — 4 mentions · watch from 00:04:19
  7. Ep. 109: Viktor Frankl, 'Man's Search for Meaning,' part 1 — 3 mentions · watch from 00:11:09
  8. Ep. 11: Pump the moralistic, therapeutic, deism brakes, American Christianity. — 3 mentions
  9. Ep. 248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims — 3 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 3 mentions
  11. Ep. 354: Jacques Ellul - Conforming the Church to the Modern World — 3 mentions · watch from 00:03:32
  12. Ep. 184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany — 2 mentions · watch from 01:09:37
  13. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 2 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 2 mentions · watch from 01:12:16
  15. Ep. 49: Charles Spurgeon - God or Self- Which? — 2 mentions
  16. Ep. 8: Who are you? I'm Batma... I'm Constantine. — 2 mentions
  17. Ep. 107: Tim Townsend, Mission to Nuremberg, part 2 — 1 mentions · watch from 00:21:31
  18. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 1 mentions
  19. Ep. 179: Girolamo Savaronola - O you who have anything superfluous, give it to the poor! — 1 mentions
  20. Ep. 185: The Enlightenment - The Monolithic Nature of the Church Has Come to an End — 1 mentions · watch from 00:57:17
  21. Ep. 187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue — 1 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent — 1 mentions · watch from 00:44:37
  23. Ep. 240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation — 1 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 243: Grothe - The Change of Lordship in the Christian's Experience — 1 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 247: Grothe - How to 'Save the World' — 1 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3 — 1 mentions · watch from 00:32:59
  29. Ep. 271: Nietzsche - A theologian of today not only errs when he speaks but actually lies — 1 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 291: Schleiermacher - The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices — 1 mentions · watch from 00:06:25
  31. Ep. 334: MacDonald - The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity — 1 mentions · watch from 02:13:40
  32. Ep. 35: Planking with Brennan Manning, part 1 — 1 mentions
  33. Ep. 352: Gregory of Nazianzus - Letter 58 To Basil — 1 mentions · watch from 02:10:45
  34. Ep. 403: Morales - Remembering Your Baptism — 1 mentions · watch from 00:49:15
  35. Ep. 404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae — 1 mentions · watch from 01:57:02
  36. Ep. 420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  37. 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 02:02:33
  38. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 1 mentions · watch from 00:30:25
  39. Ep. 79: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Doubting Castle — 1 mentions · watch from 00:08:39