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Banned Books Podcast

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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 "Bondage of the Will" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 124 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  2. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 84 mentions · watch from 00:00:59
  3. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 78 mentions · watch from 00:01:50
  4. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 76 mentions · watch from 00:01:25
  5. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 73 mentions · watch from 00:01:36
  6. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 64 mentions · watch from 00:01:23
  7. Ep. 409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity — 64 mentions · watch from 00:01:53
  8. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 60 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  9. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 60 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  10. Ep. 304: Anselm of Canterbury - On Free Will — 59 mentions · watch from 00:12:22
  11. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 53 mentions · watch from 00:35:23
  12. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 50 mentions · watch from 00:00:13
  13. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 48 mentions · watch from 00:01:55
  14. Ep. 429: Lewis - ''Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her — 48 mentions · watch from 00:03:16
  15. Ep. 416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel — 44 mentions · watch from 00:02:22
  16. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 42 mentions · watch from 00:00:21
  17. Ep. 425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact — 42 mentions · watch from 00:02:51
  18. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 40 mentions · watch from 00:08:49
  19. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 40 mentions · watch from 00:02:58
  20. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 37 mentions · watch from 00:01:10
  21. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 37 mentions · watch from 00:07:11
  22. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 34 mentions · watch from 00:05:59
  23. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 33 mentions · watch from 00:02:26
  24. Ep. 381: Kleinig - The Things That Make a Theologian — 32 mentions · watch from 00:01:07
  25. Ep. 28: I Want What I Want When I Want It... Again! — 31 mentions
  26. Ep. 418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament — 27 mentions · watch from 00:00:34
  27. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 26 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  28. Ep. 427: Wulfstan - Sermon of the Wolf to the English — 26 mentions · watch from 00:16:38
  29. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 25 mentions · watch from 00:07:49
  30. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 24 mentions · watch from 00:14:34
  31. Ep. 395: Questions Answered — 24 mentions · watch from 00:01:10
  32. Ep. 393: Table Talk — 23 mentions · watch from 00:11:33
  33. Ep. 86: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will — 23 mentions · watch from 00:00:56
  34. Ep. 113: More Justin Marytr and Tatian on Free Will and Predestination — 22 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will — 22 mentions · watch from 00:06:08
  36. Ep. 401: Q&A on Christian Success — 19 mentions · watch from 00:00:00
  37. Ep. 71: C.S. Lewis - The Fall of Man from 'The Joyful Christian' — 14 mentions · watch from 00:19:48
  38. Ep. 59: John Bunyan - The Doctrine of Law & Grace Unfolded — 12 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 112: Justin Martyr on Free Will and Predestination — 11 mentions · watch from 00:02:07
  40. Ep. 223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory — 11 mentions · watch