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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 "Steven D. Paulson" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 20 mentions · watch from 00:01:22
  2. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 14 mentions · watch from 00:03:03
  3. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 13 mentions · watch from 00:20:45
  4. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 13 mentions · watch from 00:02:34
  5. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 12 mentions · watch from 00:06:47
  6. Ep. 234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin's Origin of Species — 11 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 313: Two Sermons on the Bound Will — 11 mentions · watch from 00:06:52
  8. Ep. 236: Paulson - Nature''s life without a preacher is forensic: being judged and judging — 10 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 235: Paulson - Darwin's real problem is … the command of God that has no restraint — 9 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 238: Bayer - Faith is wholly and entirely God's work — 9 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 9 mentions · watch from 00:39:01
  12. Ep. 294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination — 8 mentions · watch from 00:01:55
  13. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 8 mentions · watch from 00:01:29
  14. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 8 mentions · watch from 00:02:22
  15. Ep. 242: Grothe - The Justification of the Ungodly — 7 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims — 7 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 252: Hamann - We Hear the Blood of the Redeemer Crying Out in Our Heart — 7 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity — 6 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 237: Paulson - Genesis is either the preached God speaking, or is the myth/science of the unpreached God — 6 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 308: Augustine - On Christian Teaching — 6 mentions · watch from 00:05:08
  21. Ep. 328: John Piper - Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future — 6 mentions · watch from 00:15:06
  22. Ep. 213a: Paulson - Becoming a servant of all and a saint in this world — 5 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 5 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 5 mentions · watch from 00:15:53
  25. Ep. 347: Bornkamm - The God of the Old Testament — 5 mentions · watch from 00:07:20
  26. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 5 mentions · watch from 00:00:57
  27. Ep. 23: You'd think that killing people would make them like you — 4 mentions
  28. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 4 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 291: Schleiermacher - The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices — 4 mentions · watch from 00:30:45
  30. Ep. 336: Tolkien - On Christian Preaching — 4 mentions · watch from 01:51:06
  31. Ep. 367: Nestigen - Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation pt. 2 — 4 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 403: Morales - Remembering Your Baptism — 4 mentions · watch from 00:16:44
  33. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 4 mentions · watch from 00:01:28
  34. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 4 mentions · watch from 00:38:38
  35. Ep. 258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3 — 3 mentions · watch from 01:24:08
  36. Ep. 268: Josh McDowell - Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? — 3 mentions · watch from 02:10:33
  37. Ep. 292: Capon - We live all our lives in an irremovable suit of forgiveness — 3 mentions · watch from 00:26:54
  38. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 3 mentions · watch from 00:08:40
  39. Ep. 315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating — 3 mentions · watch from 01:25:11
  40. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 3 mentions · watch from 00:51:54