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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 "Neil Postman" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 33 mentions · watch from 00:13:13
  2. Ep. 427: Wulfstan - Sermon of the Wolf to the English — 5 mentions · watch from 00:18:23
  3. Ep. 384: Peterson - The Stunted Imagination — 3 mentions · watch from 00:19:53
  4. Ep. 145: The Violence of Modernity - God Controls The Outcome of History, part 1 — 1 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application — 1 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue — 1 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 188: Kennedy - This communist doctrine that God is something we can take or leave — 1 mentions · watch from 01:27:58
  8. Ep. 200b: Weil - It is Not Good Which Evil Violates, For Good is Inviolate — 1 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody — 1 mentions · watch from 00:19:10
  10. Ep. 216: Mullet - Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect — 1 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 230: Dreher - The Christian family is a Survival Strategy for Faith in a Time of Persecution — 1 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 300: C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed — 1 mentions · watch from 00:06:12
  13. Ep. 388: Luther - Maundy Thursday — 1 mentions · watch from 00:58:09
  14. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 1 mentions · watch from 01:35:15