Banned Books

Featured text: "The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don't Get It" — Robert Capon

Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Robert Capon's "The Mystery of Christ... and why we don't get it." Faith, works, and more Christian absurdity.

Text: "The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don't Get It" by Robert Farrar Capon, p. 90-94

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Robert Capon - Youtube Retreat
• "Get Well Soon" Roadkill
• Thinking Fellows: Q&A: Prayer, Communion, and Other Questions

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Featured text: "Crucifying Religion: How Jesus is the End of Religion" — Donavon Riley

Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Crucifying Religion, by Donavon Riley so Riley can have a discussion about himself with himself. It's a meta, meta episode!

Text: Crucifying Religion: How Jesus is the End of Religion, p.40

Show Notes:

• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church - Rod Rosenbladt
• Warrior Priest Podcast

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Featured text: "The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don't Get It" — Robert Capon

Gillespie and Riley return to Robert Capon to read and discuss the incarnation of Jesus and how we try to turn free grace into a transaction.

Text: "The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don't Get It" by Robert Farrar Capon

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram

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Featured text: "An Argument Directed Against the Nestorians" — John of Damascus

Gillespie and Riley dive deep into an early church argument about Mary, why a bishop named Nestorius, and Mohammed, rejected the virgin birth, and why it's important to discuss the topic today.

Text: Chapter XII.—That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the Nestorians.

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Episode #64 - John of Damascus - Critique of Islam
• Episode #65 - John of Damascus - Critique of Islam, pt.2
• Episode #66 - John of Damascus, Arius, Arianna
• Nestorius bio
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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Featured text: "Thalia" — John of Damascus

Gillespie and Riley finish their reading of John of Damascus' critique of Islam, then jump into the writings of Arius to better understand the foundation of Islam and modern American Christianity.

Text: Thalia (Arius)

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Episode #64 - John of Damascus - Critique of Islam
• Episode #65 - John of Damascus - Critique of Islam, pt.2
• Arius Bio
• The spread of the controversy

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Featured text: "Critique of Islam" — John of Damascus

An enthusiast came in here looking for you — real God and country-type. I don't know. Might further the plot. Gillespie and Riley read and discuss John of Damascus again this week. What's an enthusiast? Why are footnotes important? How do Aphrodite, Arius, and a Nestorian monk lay the foundation for Islam?

Text: St. John of Damascus's Critique of Islam

Show Notes:

• Preorder "Crucifying Religion" by Riley
• Donavon Riley on 1517, FB, and Instagram
• Episode #64 - John of Damascus - Critique of Islam
• Irishman in Braveheart
• Revelation 19:10
• Life of Brian clip
• Bushido: The Soul of Japan

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Featured text: "Critique of Islam" — John of Damascus

God's prophet? Inconceivable! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss the work of John of Damascus which explains why Islam is a Christian heresy.

Text: St. John of Damascus's Critique of Islam

Show Notes:

• John of Damascus
• Josh MacDowell - More than a Carpenter

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Featured text: "The Infant Priest Was Holy Born" — Chad Bird

Gillespie and Riley conclude their discussion of hymnody with Chad Bird's hymn, "The Infant Priest Was Holy Born." Again, they focus on pastoral care, comfort for Christians, and what happens when the church ignores the reality of sin, death, and Satan.

Show Notes:

• The Backstory of "The Infant Priest": From a Student's Meditation, to a Scrap of Paper, to a Communion Hymn
• Christ Hold Fast Facebook page
• Weeping Angels (Doctor Who)
• Thinking Fellows - Melanchthon's Loci

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Featured text: "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" — Thomas O. Chisholm

Do You Have a Great Hymn This Week? Go Fish! This week, Gillespie and Riley discuss Thomas Chisholm's poem turned hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness. More discussion of hymnody, church music, and how what we sing can help or hinder pastoral care.

Show Notes:

• Banned Books #80 - "Amazing Grace"
• Crucifying Religion - Donavon Riley
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Hymnary)
• Capon Series
• The Great Litany & History
• ER Clip

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Featured text: "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" — Joseph Scriven

Jesus joins us in our weirdness. In this episode, Gillespie and Riley continue their discussion of how to judge a hymn with Joseph Scriven's classic hymn, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."

Show Notes:

• Banned Books #80 - "Amazing Grace"
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Wikipedia)
• Spock's Funeral

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