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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 "Norman Nagel" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:54
  2. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 17 mentions · watch from 00:01:50
  3. Ep. 374: Nagel - A Sermon for Christmas Day — 16 mentions · watch from 00:04:41
  4. Ep. 403: Morales - Remembering Your Baptism — 14 mentions · watch from 00:23:30
  5. Ep. 84: Norman E. Nagel, The Spirit's Gifts from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 14 mentions · watch from 00:02:50
  6. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 12 mentions · watch from 00:02:44
  7. Ep. 332: Norman Nagel - The Lord has more than one Elijah — 11 mentions · watch from 00:16:19
  8. Ep. 82: Norman E. Nagel, 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 8 mentions · watch from 00:00:03
  9. Ep. 234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin's Origin of Species — 7 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 7 mentions · watch from 00:01:55
  11. Ep. 323: Korby - Prayer: Pre-Reformation to the Present — 6 mentions · watch from 00:03:02
  12. Ep. 280: Augustine - The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law — 4 mentions · watch from 00:00:12
  13. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 4 mentions · watch from 00:17:26
  14. Ep. 336: Tolkien - On Christian Preaching — 4 mentions · watch from 00:56:28
  15. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 4 mentions · watch from 00:24:31
  16. Ep. 238: Bayer - Faith is wholly and entirely God's work — 3 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 243: Grothe - The Change of Lordship in the Christian's Experience — 3 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 3 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 3 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 3 mentions · watch from 00:09:14
  21. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 3 mentions · watch from 00:25:41
  22. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 3 mentions · watch from 02:01:35
  23. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 3 mentions · watch from 01:31:14
  24. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 3 mentions · watch from 00:41:15
  25. Ep. 1: C.S. Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' 'On the Incarnation' Part 1 — 2 mentions
  26. Ep. 104: Hermann Sasse against National Socialism — 2 mentions · watch from 00:14:14
  27. Ep. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god — 2 mentions · watch from 00:47:30
  28. Ep. 128: Interlude, Rumination, and Pastoral Debrief on Pandemics, Maturity, and Vocation — 2 mentions · watch from 00:44:21
  29. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 2 mentions
  30. Ep. 154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity — 2 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now! — 2 mentions · watch from 00:17:53
  32. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 2 mentions
  33. Ep. 204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent — 2 mentions · watch from 00:12:54
  34. Ep. 228: Dreher - A Benda Guide to Child-raising — 2 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 232: Unpublished Episode (recorded but not released) — 2 mentions
  36. Ep. 242: Grothe - The Justification of the Ungodly — 2 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 251: Hamann - The Hostility of the Serpent's Offspring against the Blessed Offspring of the Woman — 2 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 254: Kierkegaard - Parable of the Geese & the King and Maiden — 2 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 269: Josh McDowell - What about Science? — 2 mentions · watch from 02:04:31
  40. Ep. 283: Luther - It is true that the child was born of the virgin and is mine — 2 mentions · watch