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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 "Adiaphora, Confessionalism, and the Church's Witness" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 10 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 10 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order — 9 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 363: Olson - Liturgy as 'Action' — 6 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny — 6 mentions · watch from 01:18:50
  6. Ep. 241: Sasse - There is no Christian state — 5 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 5 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 5 mentions · watch from 00:28:24
  9. Ep. 223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory — 4 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 322: An Early Lutheran Ordination — 4 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 372: Luther - A Lovely and Joyous Sermon — 4 mentions · watch from 00:16:58
  12. Ep. 390: Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God — 4 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  13. Ep. 104: Hermann Sasse against National Socialism — 3 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 111: Thomas Cranmer, The Collect - Prayer for the Church — 3 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 129: Martin Luther - The Difference between Christian Righteousness and All Others Types of Righteousness — 3 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished — 3 mentions
  17. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 3 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 3 mentions
  19. Ep. 386: Pastoral Debrief with a bit of Flacius — 3 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  20. Ep. 389: Power and Primacy of the Pope — 3 mentions · watch from 00:00:05
  21. Ep. 414: Luther - God is extravagantly rich in His grace — 3 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  22. Ep. 437: John of Damascus - Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images — 3 mentions · watch from 00:29:06
  23. Ep. 57: The Schwabach Articles, part 1 — 3 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 82: Norman E. Nagel, 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 3 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 3 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 3 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 98: Martin Luther, 'The Clarity of Scripture' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 3 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 163: Timothy Keller - If you believe in human rights, you are probably not a utilitarian — 2 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 2 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 214: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 2 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 25: All this damage - and it's old Adam's fault. — 2 mentions
  32. Ep. 296: Bo Giertz - Christ's Church: The Parish Church — 2 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 2 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 302: Banned Books LIVE HOLY WEEK Q&A — 2 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 328: John Piper - Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future — 2 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 33: Please, Love Me Like You Do... — 2 mentions
  37. Ep. 336: Tolkien - On Christian Preaching — 2 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 2 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 2 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 361: Olson - The Duty of Resistance — 2 mentions · watch