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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 "Justification by Grace through Faith" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 52 mentions · watch from 00:05:16
  2. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 42 mentions · watch from 00:26:31
  3. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 37 mentions · watch from 00:26:24
  4. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 32 mentions · watch from 00:02:29
  5. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 31 mentions · watch from 00:08:45
  6. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 30 mentions · watch from 00:11:13
  7. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 27 mentions · watch from 00:10:01
  8. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 27 mentions · watch from 00:21:04
  9. Ep. 415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will — 22 mentions · watch from 00:12:46
  10. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 19 mentions · watch from 00:39:08
  11. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 11 mentions · watch from 00:14:43
  12. Ep. 292: Capon - We live all our lives in an irremovable suit of forgiveness — 6 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 125: Martin Luther - The Papists and Anabaptists are foxes tied at the tail — 5 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 139: Martin Luther - Christ is the Redeemer of all those under the law — 5 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 20: One sermon, two men, maximum effort — 5 mentions
  16. Ep. 18: Now... okay, so, angels as people, tell me about that. Walk me through it. — 4 mentions
  17. Ep. 32: Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? We're Not Done Yet. — 4 mentions
  18. Ep. 119: Erasmus, Old Testaments Passages Implying Free Choice — 3 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 257: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 2 — 3 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 299: Philipp Nicolai - The Joy of Eternal Life — 3 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 318: Nestigen - Luther on Marriage, Vocation, and the Cross — 3 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 3 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny — 3 mentions · watch from 01:36:03
  24. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 3 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 101: Augustine, 'Why Celebrate Christmas?' — 2 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 16: No, boys. There's two 'O's in Goose. — 2 mentions
  27. Ep. 167: C.S. Lewis - Under the aegis of His Church, learning and the arts flourish — 2 mentions
  28. Ep. 22: I'm stepping - I'm stepping in it! What does it smell like? — 2 mentions
  29. Ep. 242: Grothe - The Justification of the Ungodly — 2 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 275: Karl Barth - I am he that wills but does not perform — 2 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 31: Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? Good. — 2 mentions
  32. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 2 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 59: John Bunyan - The Doctrine of Law & Grace Unfolded — 2 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 75: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Life — 2 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 77: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Vanity Fair — 2 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies — 2 mentions
  37. Ep. 98: Martin Luther, 'The Clarity of Scripture' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 2 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 103: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Cheap Grace vs. Costly Grace' pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 118: Erasmus, Forgiveness of Sins Restores Freedom of Choice — 1 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 138: Martin Luther - We Will Not Permit Ourselves to Be Shoved or Budged Away From Justification — 1 mentions · watch