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Banned Books Podcast

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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 "Martin Luther" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 318: Nestigen - Luther on Marriage, Vocation, and the Cross — 88 mentions · watch from 00:14:55
  2. Ep. 116: Erasmus, The Danger in Assertions — 83 mentions · watch from 00:01:31
  3. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 80 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  4. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 79 mentions · watch from 00:00:28
  5. Ep. 150: Martin Luther - On the Jews and their Lies (1543) — 77 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 86: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will — 74 mentions · watch from 00:00:56
  7. Ep. 347: Bornkamm - The God of the Old Testament — 69 mentions · watch from 00:07:20
  8. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 63 mentions · watch from 00:01:40
  9. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 63 mentions · watch from 00:02:01
  10. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 63 mentions · watch from 00:00:55
  11. Ep. 89: Martin Luther, 'Free Choice is of the World' from The Bondage of The Will — 63 mentions · watch from 00:00:14
  12. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 62 mentions · watch from 00:02:13
  13. Ep. 316: Luther - Letters of Spiritual Counsel to the Anxious and Despondent — 61 mentions · watch from 00:00:33
  14. Ep. 415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will — 57 mentions · watch from 00:02:54
  15. Ep. 320: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 55 mentions · watch from 00:02:55
  16. Ep. 98: Martin Luther, 'The Clarity of Scripture' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 55 mentions · watch from 00:00:35
  17. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 54 mentions · watch from 00:04:30
  18. Ep. 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies — 54 mentions
  19. Ep. 24: Your Theology Is Creating A Nice Little Climate of Panic — 50 mentions · watch from 00:04:51
  20. Ep. 37: Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross — Luther's Christmas Book — 49 mentions
  21. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 48 mentions · watch from 00:01:23
  22. Ep. 96: Martin Luther, 'Erasmus' Definition of Free Choice' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 47 mentions · watch from 00:01:34
  23. Ep. 91: Martin Luther, 'Universal Sinfulness Nullifies Free Choice' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 46 mentions · watch from 00:02:24
  24. Ep. 93: Martin Luther, 'Erasmus's way of reasoning does not let God be God' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 46 mentions · watch from 00:01:25
  25. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 45 mentions · watch from 00:24:39
  26. Ep. 40: Martin Luther - Don't Be Afraid to Be a Sinner — 45 mentions
  27. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 44 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  28. Ep. 204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent — 41 mentions · watch from 00:01:37
  29. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 41 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity — 41 mentions · watch from 01:07:12
  31. Ep. 301: Nestigen - The Two Kingdoms Distinction — 40 mentions · watch from 00:11:52
  32. Ep. 117: Erasmus, The Obscurity of Scripture — 37 mentions · watch from 00:01:22
  33. Ep. 28: I Want What I Want When I Want It... Again! — 37 mentions
  34. Ep. 283: Luther - It is true that the child was born of the virgin and is mine — 36 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law — 36 mentions · watch from 00:01:50
  36. Ep. 38: The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel - Luther's Christmas Book — 36 mentions
  37. Ep. 270: Matthias Flacius - Rules for Understanding the Sacred Scriptures — 35 mentions · watch from 00:00:41
  38. Ep. 372: Luther - A Lovely and Joyous Sermon — 35 mentions · watch from 00:10:15
  39. Ep. 129: Martin Luther - The Difference between Christian Righteousness and All Others Types of Righteousness — 34 mentions · watch from 00:00:30
  40. Ep. 348: Martin Luther on the Prophet Habakkuk — 34 mentions · watch from 00:01:29