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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 "Philip Melanchthon" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 8 mentions · watch from 00:22:08
  2. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 6 mentions · watch from 00:36:50
  3. Ep. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny — 6 mentions · watch from 00:20:48
  4. Ep. 295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law — 5 mentions · watch from 00:05:09
  5. Ep. 376: Origen - Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans — 5 mentions · watch from 00:38:33
  6. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 5 mentions · watch from 00:19:50
  7. Ep. 86: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will — 5 mentions · watch from 00:06:10
  8. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 4 mentions
  9. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 4 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  10. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 4 mentions · watch from 00:17:09
  11. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 3 mentions · watch from 01:14:06
  12. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 3 mentions · watch from 00:01:30
  13. Ep. 57: The Schwabach Articles, part 1 — 3 mentions · watch from 00:01:09
  14. Ep. 111: Thomas Cranmer, The Collect - Prayer for the Church — 2 mentions · watch from 00:09:38
  15. Ep. 194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive — 2 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody — 2 mentions · watch from 01:20:03
  17. Ep. 259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1 — 2 mentions · watch from 00:29:39
  18. Ep. 270: Matthias Flacius - Rules for Understanding the Sacred Scriptures — 2 mentions · watch from 00:07:09
  19. Ep. 289: Melanchthon - What a horrible and wretched spectacle! — 2 mentions · watch from 00:05:22
  20. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 2 mentions · watch from 00:16:33
  21. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 2 mentions · watch from 00:11:39
  22. Ep. 393: Table Talk — 2 mentions · watch from 00:03:01
  23. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 2 mentions · watch from 01:02:01
  24. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 2 mentions · watch from 00:04:56
  25. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 2 mentions · watch from 02:31:43
  26. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 2 mentions · watch from 00:14:51
  27. Ep. 116: Erasmus, The Danger in Assertions — 1 mentions · watch from 00:27:23
  28. Ep. 137: Martin Luther - The Apostles Were Reverenced and Honored By the Entire Church — 1 mentions · watch from 00:02:48
  29. Ep. 140: Martin Luther - I Fix My Eyes On Christ, That Bronze Serpent Hanging From the Cross — 1 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 146: Propaganda Never Rests - God Controls The Outcome of History, part 2 — 1 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 16: No, boys. There's two 'O's in Goose. — 1 mentions
  32. Ep. 183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished — 1 mentions
  33. Ep. 185: The Enlightenment - The Monolithic Nature of the Church Has Come to an End — 1 mentions · watch from 00:24:42
  34. Ep. 193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free — 1 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 20: One sermon, two men, maximum effort — 1 mentions
  36. Ep. 204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent — 1 mentions · watch from 00:01:59
  37. Ep. 227: Bonus Debrief on Anger, Hatred, and Miscarriage — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 23: You'd think that killing people would make them like you — 1 mentions
  39. Ep. 269: Josh McDowell - What about Science? — 1 mentions · watch from 02:16:24
  40. Ep. 275: Karl Barth - I am he that wills but does not perform — 1 mentions · watch from 01:00:11