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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 "Eugene H. Peterson" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 384: Peterson - The Stunted Imagination — 9 mentions · watch from 00:03:38
  2. Ep. 307: Peterson - Under the Unpredictable Plant — 5 mentions · watch from 00:10:54
  3. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 2 mentions
  4. Ep. 336: Tolkien - On Christian Preaching — 2 mentions · watch from 00:50:27
  5. Ep. 345: Peterson - We Live in a World Filtered Through the Imagination — 2 mentions · watch from 00:01:55
  6. Ep. 356: Francis Schaeffer - The Centrality of Death — 2 mentions · watch from 00:28:49
  7. Ep. 370: Capon - Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World — 2 mentions · watch from 02:29:02
  8. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 2 mentions · watch from 00:44:43
  9. Ep. 401: Q&A on Christian Success — 2 mentions · watch from 00:41:32
  10. Ep. 12: We're not going to walk this one off. — 1 mentions
  11. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 1 mentions
  12. Ep. 208b: Nietzsche - Seeing the alternative between Dionysus and the 'Crucified' — 1 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 229: Dreher - Family as Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism — 1 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 1 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 250: Hamann - Interpreting the Sacred Scriptures — 1 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 269: Josh McDowell - What about Science? — 1 mentions · watch from 00:17:33
  17. Ep. 292: Capon - We live all our lives in an irremovable suit of forgiveness — 1 mentions · watch from 00:22:06
  18. Ep. 30: If there's one thing a theologian of glory doesn't understand, it's the cross, part 2 — 1 mentions
  19. Ep. 308: Augustine - On Christian Teaching — 1 mentions · watch from 00:53:36
  20. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 1 mentions · watch from 01:09:19
  21. Ep. 317: Löhe - Pastoral Care of the Sick — 1 mentions · watch from 00:03:17
  22. Ep. 352: Gregory of Nazianzus - Letter 58 To Basil — 1 mentions · watch from 01:20:36
  23. Ep. 369: Thielicke - Pathology of the Young Theologian's Conceit — 1 mentions · watch from 02:34:06
  24. Ep. 392: Keller - What Is the Church? — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  25. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 1 mentions · watch from 00:25:07
  26. Ep. 403: Morales - Remembering Your Baptism — 1 mentions · watch from 01:20:39
  27. Ep. 408: Nestigen - Luther and Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  28. Ep. 423: Graff - Rationalism's war on everything 'magical.' — 1 mentions · watch from 02:24:33
  29. Ep. 431: Kleinig - The Mystery of Christ and Cosmic Restoration — 1 mentions · watch from 01:52:23
  30. Ep. 50: Interview with David Zahl - 'Seculosity' — 1 mentions
  31. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 1 mentions · watch from 00:26:35
  32. Ep. 8: Who are you? I'm Batma... I'm Constantine. — 1 mentions
  33. Ep. 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies — 1 mentions