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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 W. Kleinig" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 338: Kleinig - Rituals and the Enactment of the Gospel — 4 mentions · watch from 00:15:55
  2. Ep. 250: Hamann - Interpreting the Sacred Scriptures — 3 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 424: Kleinig - The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Service — 3 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 163: Timothy Keller - If you believe in human rights, you are probably not a utilitarian — 2 mentions · watch from 00:15:31
  5. Ep. 252: Hamann - We Hear the Blood of the Redeemer Crying Out in Our Heart — 2 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 167: C.S. Lewis - Under the aegis of His Church, learning and the arts flourish — 1 mentions
  7. Ep. 182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order — 1 mentions · watch from 00:18:26
  8. Ep. 193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinely — 1 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 1 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1 — 1 mentions · watch from 00:36:25
  11. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 1 mentions · watch from 00:20:39
  12. Ep. 316: Luther - Letters of Spiritual Counsel to the Anxious and Despondent — 1 mentions · watch from 01:24:39
  13. Ep. 323: Korby - Prayer: Pre-Reformation to the Present — 1 mentions · watch from 02:22:22
  14. Ep. 324: Ristau - Demonic Games and Mental Health — 1 mentions · watch from 00:38:20
  15. Ep. 337: Chesterton - Heretics: X. On Sandals and Simplicity — 1 mentions · watch from 01:23:50
  16. Ep. 48: Gillespie and Riley - Q&A The Sequel — 1 mentions