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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 "Preaching as Promise" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 39 mentions · watch from 00:16:51
  2. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 34 mentions · watch from 00:00:45
  3. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 31 mentions · watch from 00:03:03
  4. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 31 mentions · watch from 00:01:23
  5. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 27 mentions · watch from 00:04:20
  6. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 22 mentions · watch from 00:15:59
  7. Ep. 416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel — 22 mentions · watch from 00:01:24
  8. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 20 mentions · watch from 00:23:32
  9. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 19 mentions · watch from 00:01:29
  10. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 19 mentions · watch from 01:04:36
  11. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 18 mentions · watch from 01:04:47
  12. Ep. 301: Nestigen - The Two Kingdoms Distinction — 17 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 17 mentions · watch from 00:13:37
  14. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 16 mentions · watch from 00:02:58
  15. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 14 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 377: Origen - The Church as Superior to All Things Pagan — 14 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 13 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 13 mentions · watch from 00:02:04
  19. Ep. 418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament — 13 mentions · watch from 00:05:19
  20. Ep. 237: Paulson - Genesis is either the preached God speaking, or is the myth/science of the unpreached God — 12 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 388: Luther - Maundy Thursday — 12 mentions · watch from 00:24:28
  22. Ep. 409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity — 12 mentions · watch from 00:13:42
  23. Ep. 297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon — 11 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 11 mentions · watch from 00:04:34
  25. Ep. 395: Questions Answered — 11 mentions · watch from 00:11:31
  26. Ep. 384: Peterson - The Stunted Imagination — 10 mentions · watch from 00:42:34
  27. Ep. 58: The Schwabach Articles, part 2 — 10 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination — 9 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 236: Paulson - Nature''s life without a preacher is forensic: being judged and judging — 8 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 322: An Early Lutheran Ordination — 8 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 332: Norman Nagel - The Lord has more than one Elijah — 8 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 379: Chrysostom - On Wealth and Poverty — 8 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 7 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 327: Karl Barth - How to Preach to Prisoners — 7 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 361: Olson - The Duty of Resistance — 7 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact — 7 mentions · watch from 01:06:14
  37. Ep. 245: Grothe - The Struggle of the New Creation and Indwelling Sin — 6 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil — 6 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 260: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 2 — 6 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 293: Capon - All God Needs to Make a Preacher is a Nobody — 6 mentions · watch