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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 "Vocation and Pastoral Ministry" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 367: Nestigen - Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation pt. 2 — 31 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 85: HWSS 2019 Live Show with Chad Bird, 'Your God is Too Glorious' — 30 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 307: Peterson - Under the Unpredictable Plant — 27 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 325: Ristau - The Word and Armor of God — 24 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 384: Peterson - The Stunted Imagination — 24 mentions · watch from 00:31:42
  6. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 21 mentions · watch from 00:10:49
  7. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 21 mentions · watch from 00:01:58
  8. Ep. 51: Beth Moore - Christian Communicators — 19 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 18 mentions · watch from 00:15:17
  10. Ep. 316: Luther - Letters of Spiritual Counsel to the Anxious and Despondent — 16 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 377: Origen - The Church as Superior to All Things Pagan — 16 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 16 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 15 mentions · watch from 00:52:52
  14. Ep. 226: Dreher - Families are Resistance Cells — 14 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 318: Nestigen - Luther on Marriage, Vocation, and the Cross — 14 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 14 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 207: A Prayer for Memorial Day — 13 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 109: Viktor Frankl, 'Man's Search for Meaning,' part 1 — 12 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 217: Dreher - The Unready Christians of Slovakia — 12 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 385: Woodford - Great Commission, Great Confusion, or Great Confession? — 12 mentions · watch from 00:24:29
  21. Ep. 395: Questions Answered — 12 mentions · watch from 00:03:54
  22. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 12 mentions · watch from 00:01:41
  23. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 12 mentions · watch from 00:25:41
  24. Ep. 320: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 11 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 322: An Early Lutheran Ordination — 11 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 341: St. John Cassian - The Spirit of Acedia — 11 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 365: Schwarz - Christ's Last Will and Testament — 11 mentions · watch from 00:14:52
  28. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 11 mentions · watch from 00:05:21
  29. Ep. 416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel — 11 mentions · watch from 00:02:50
  30. Ep. 425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact — 11 mentions · watch from 00:00:57
  31. Ep. 69: Donavon Riley - Blatant Self-Promotion of 'Crucifying Religion' — 11 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity — 10 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 134: Martin Luther - Abstain from Speculating about the Nature of God — 10 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 334: MacDonald - The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity — 10 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 335: Gregory the Great - Pastoral Rule — 10 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 373: Luther - You have the Mystery of God — 10 mentions · watch from 00:06:48
  37. Ep. 406: Giertz - The Parish Church — 10 mentions · watch from 00:18:56
  38. Ep. 144: A Pastoral Debrief on Epidemic, Protests, and Riots — 9 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 205a: Scott Keith - Debrief on Two Kingdoms, Social Media, and Local Vocation — 9 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 216: Mullet - Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect — 9 mentions · watch