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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 "Icons and the Theology of Images" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 342: Luther - Now the Works of the Flesh are Plain — 53 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 347: Bornkamm - The God of the Old Testament — 45 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 199: Weil - We Humiliate Ourselves Before False Gods — 33 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 437: John of Damascus - Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images — 32 mentions · watch from 00:17:40
  5. Ep. 381: Kleinig - The Things That Make a Theologian — 22 mentions · watch from 00:11:18
  6. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 17 mentions · watch from 00:01:14
  7. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 16 mentions · watch from 00:06:27
  8. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 15 mentions · watch from 00:02:08
  9. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 13 mentions · watch from 00:07:31
  10. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 13 mentions · watch from 00:01:39
  11. Ep. 345: Peterson - We Live in a World Filtered Through the Imagination — 12 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 10 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity — 9 mentions · watch from 00:02:42
  14. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 9 mentions · watch from 00:07:03
  15. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 9 mentions · watch from 00:07:42
  16. Ep. 329: Venerable Bede - On the Song of Songs — 8 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 8 mentions · watch from 01:17:17
  18. Ep. 415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will — 8 mentions · watch from 00:11:49
  19. Ep. 247: Grothe - How to 'Save the World' — 7 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 314: Girard - I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning — 7 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 7 mentions · watch from 00:05:16
  22. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 7 mentions · watch from 00:36:01
  23. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 7 mentions · watch from 00:51:09
  24. Ep. 63: Chad Bird - 'The Infant Priest Was Holy Born' — 7 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 361: Olson - The Duty of Resistance — 6 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 6 mentions · watch from 00:18:01
  27. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 6 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 6 mentions · watch from 00:23:08
  29. Ep. 402: Tolkien - Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth — 6 mentions · watch from 00:23:52
  30. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 6 mentions · watch from 00:09:28
  31. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 6 mentions · watch from 00:21:55
  32. Ep. 143: Martin Luther - Who Loved Me and Gave Himself For Me — 5 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands — 5 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 319: Graff - Baalism in the Life of the Church — 5 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 374: Nagel - A Sermon for Christmas Day — 5 mentions · watch from 01:08:42
  36. Ep. 384: Peterson - The Stunted Imagination — 5 mentions · watch from 00:00:35
  37. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 5 mentions · watch from 00:36:29
  38. Ep. 401: Q&A on Christian Success — 5 mentions · watch from 00:13:04
  39. Ep. 430: Tolkien - The Journey Through the Desert: The Lenten Quest — 5 mentions · watch from 01:03:47
  40. Ep. 175: Patrick Henry Reardon - Death is Sin Rendered Visible — 4 mentions