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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 "Theosis" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 251: Hamann - The Hostility of the Serpent's Offspring against the Blessed Offspring of the Woman — 4 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 72: C.S. Lewis - The Incarnation from 'The Joyful Christian' — 4 mentions · watch from 00:18:22
  3. Ep. 233: Dreher - The Power of the Powerless Church — 3 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 433: Von Schenk - The Crucifixion — 3 mentions · watch from 01:41:02
  5. Ep. 247: Grothe - How to 'Save the World' — 2 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 2 mentions · watch from 00:47:17
  7. Ep. 67: John of Damascus - 'An argument directed against the Nestorians' — 2 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 113: More Justin Marytr and Tatian on Free Will and Predestination — 1 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation — 1 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 242: Grothe - The Justification of the Ungodly — 1 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims — 1 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 1 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 254: Kierkegaard - Parable of the Geese & the King and Maiden — 1 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 257: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch from 01:32:45
  15. Ep. 267: C.S. Lewis - It is no good asking for a simple religion — 1 mentions · watch from 01:10:37
  16. Ep. 334: MacDonald - The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity — 1 mentions · watch from 01:19:56
  17. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 1 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 349: Martin Luther - The Song of Habakkuk — 1 mentions · watch from 02:38:56
  19. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 1 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 361: Olson - The Duty of Resistance — 1 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 392: Keller - What Is the Church? — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  22. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 1 mentions · watch from 01:12:03
  23. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 1 mentions · watch from 02:09:32
  24. Ep. 428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it — 1 mentions · watch from 01:04:01
  25. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 0 mentions · watch from 00:00:00