Banned Books

Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

What about the reality we left behind? Gillespie and Riley get to the last chapter of The Pilgrim's Progress. This episode, baptism, carrot on a stick Jesus, and why verbs matter.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Perseverance of the saints
• Past Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" episodes: #73, #74, #75, #76, #77, #78, #79

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Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fu... wait, wrong story! Gillespie and Riley continue their discussion of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. This week, giants, good friends, and more cages.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Past Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" episodes: #73, #74, #75, #76, #77, #78
• Kierkegaard - Parables

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Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Despite all my rage, I'm still just a baptized sinner in a cage. Gillespie and Riley respond to a listener request about The Pilgrim's Progress. This week, we go back to the Interpreter's House to see about a man in a cage—the Bible, Jesus, and the problem with cages.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Larry Norman - I'd Wish We'd All Been Ready
• Gustav Wingren - Luther on Vocation

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

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Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Get it all together and put it in a backpack, all your vanity, so it's together. Gillespie and Riley read The Pilgrim's Progress and discuss the "both-and" of Vanity Fair for Christians.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Warrior Priest Podcast
• Assumption of Mary
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

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Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

So we bailed on that reality and we came to this one. Gillespie and Riley continue to discuss The Pilgrim's Progress. This episode, why fight demons when God will do it for you?

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Past Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" episodes: #73, #74, #75

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

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And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Life... say this out loud with an aspirational sigh. Gillespie and Riley continue their series on Pilgrim's Progress. This episode, the cross, present-tense Jesus, and getting the direction right.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Ernst Becker, "Denial of Death"
• Warrior Priest Podcast

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

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And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Gillespie and Riley read and discuss John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress." This week, chapter one and two, The City of Destruction and Interpreter's House. We talk more about our need for a present tense Jesus, the limits of allegory, and why Jesus isn't a good example for us to follow.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Puritans (wiki)

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

Support the work of 1517 today.

And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Featured text: "The Pilgrim's Progress" — John Bunyan

Gillespie and Riley read and discuss John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress." This week, chapter one, The City of Destruction. We talk about apocalyptic literature, our old friend Plato, the necessity of a real present tense Jesus, and why Riley's version of The Pilgrim's Progress would be a pamphlet.

Text: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English Hardcover – 1979

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Wit (play) - HBO version
• Stabat mater
• Runaway Bunny
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Puritans (wiki)

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

Support the work of 1517 today.

And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Featured text: "The Joyful Christian" — C.S. Lewis

Gillespie and Riley again read and discuss C.S. Lewis' The Joyful Christian. This episode, the Incarnation. Do we go far enough with Jesus' incarnation, to where He wants us to go with him?

Text: "The Joyful Christian," C.S. Lewis, p. 50-52

Show Notes:

• Order "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• On the Incarnation, episodes #1, #2, #3
• Theosis

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

Support the work of 1517 today.

And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Featured text: "The Joyful Christian" — C.S. Lewis

Gillespie and Riley read and discuss C.S. Lewis' meditation on the Fall into Sin. They go deep into the subjects of free will, dualism, retributive justice, and why discussing sin isn't as easy as we'd like.

Text: "The Joyful Christian," C.S. Lewis, p. 48-50

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Fear Inoculum
• Jack White and Jack Black
• True Crime Story

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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching.

Support the work of 1517 today.

And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast