Name: Telegraph Creative
Price range: $

Most Recent

202b: Robert Farrar Capon - Be Authentic and Authoritative Proclaimers of the Gospel

Banned Books
05/01/21

You Know, The Next Thing. In this episode, we continue reading Robert Capon’s The Mystery of Christ, and Why We Don’t Get It. We further discuss pastoral care, exegesis, the purpose of theology, and where Christian preaching points us…

God Adds to The Number of Our Days

By Donavon Riley 04/29/21

God leads us to the refuge that’s more secure and safe than any man-made thing, more than anything we own, more than anything that owns us.

202a: Robert Farrar Capon - The Mystery and Guilt

Banned Books
04/28/21

You Know, The Thing. In this episode, Robert Capon on The Mystery of Christ, and Why We Don’t Get It. We discuss exegesis, pastoral care, preaching, and the task of a theologian.

201b: Weil - The false god changes suffering into violence

Banned Books
04/25/21

Turning Inward to Attack Evil.In this episode, we continue to discuss Simone Weil on Evil. The importance of Jesus’ sacrificial death as expiation and redemption and what happens when we try to make good apart from God.

201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell

Banned Books
04/24/21

Am I Evil? In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Simone Weil on Evil. Violence, suffering, and justice. What part does human evil play in Jesus’ sacrificial death?

Possessed by Pardon and Peace

By Donavon Riley 04/20/21

It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.

Fed and Nourished

By Donavon Riley 04/16/21

Jesus rejects what we believe is most necessary and instead points us to his pain, suffering, death, and self-sacrifice.

200b: Weil - It is Not Good Which Evil Violates, For Good is Inviolate

Banned Books
04/15/21

Oh goodness, it’s so evil. In this episode, we continue reading and discussing Simone Weil on evil. If God alone is good what does that mean for our understanding of ourselves and the world?

200a: Weil - Evil is License and That is Why it Is Monotonous

Banned Books
04/13/21

Am I Evil? In this episode, Simone Weil on evil. What is evil, and how is it distinct from what is good? How does our understanding of evil, or our ignorance of it, affect the churches?

199: Weil - We Humiliate Ourselves Before False Gods

Banned Books
04/08/21

Idol Talk. In this episode, we return to Simone Weil’s book, Gravity and Grace. Idolatry is the topic of conversation. What is an idol? In what ways does idolatry infiltrate our churches, and what are the consequences? How do we…

198: Simone Weil - The Cross

Banned Books
04/01/21

Into The Mystic. In this episode, we read and discuss the crucifixion as interpreted by Simone Weil, an anarchist, philosopher, and mystic.

197b: Leo the Great - Use Lent for general improvement in the whole round of Christian duties

Banned Books
03/29/21

The Right Man for The Job. In this episode, we finish reading and discussing Leo the Great’s Lenten sermon about Christ’s two natures. What happens when the old Adam adds to Scripture’s witness to Jesus’ two natures?

197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofold nature

Banned Books
03/26/21

God Really Bodies Our Salvation. In this episode, we read and discuss a Lenten sermon from Leo the Great. What happens when the two natures of Christ are divided?

True Christian Liberty

By Donavon Riley 03/23/21

The true liberty that Christ gives to us through the gospel is not political. It is spiritual freedom. It is freedom from fear of God's judgment and wrath.

196b: Luther - Paul cuts out all merit and gives glory only to God

Banned Books
03/19/21

Grace Means Never Having to Try Harder. In this episode, Martin Luther’s comments on the letter to the Galatians regarding God’s mercy and predestination.

196a: Luther - I was forgiven only by God’s boundless grace

Banned Books
03/15/21

The stunning truth about God’s grace. In this episode, Luther’s comments about Galatians 1:15. What do we do when it’s revealed God chooses to be gracious to us while we are wicked and blasphemous?

195b: Luther - Mesmerized by the wizardry of the devil

Banned Books
03/13/21

You’re A Wizard, Lucifer!In this episode, Martin Luther continues to commentate on the apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians, and his question, “Who has bewitched you...?”

195a: Luther - Ancient serpent bewitches not only the senses but also the mind with false and evil thinking

Banned Books
03/10/21

Satan Rules The World, And Is It’s God. In this episode, Martin Luther expands on the apostle Paul’s question to the Galatians, “Who has bewitched your...?”

We are Known By God

By Donavon Riley 03/10/21

Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.

194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive

Banned Books
03/01/21

Just Sit Back and Let It Happen.In this episode, we continue our reading of Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, passive faith, internalizing virtue, and the law of the jungle.

194a: Luther - God’s will is to bless all nations... through Christ

Banned Books
02/23/21

Free Will Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be. In this episode, more from Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, God’s will, free will, identity, and taking the moral low ground.

193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinely

Banned Books
02/20/21

Free For It All.This week on the podcast, we continue our Lenten series on Christian freedom in Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. In this episode, Gospel, Satan, and competing freedoms.

193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free

Banned Books
02/18/21

Lent Is About Freedom.In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s 1525 Galatians commentary. Why is freedom a vulgar word to the old Adam? And we consider why freedom must be Lent's primary focus for Christians.

How to Be Human Again

By Donavon Riley 02/16/21

Jesus Christ is our peace because he doesn't criticize us. He declares us freed from our perceptions to accept the truth about ourselves.

192b: Solzhenitsyn - Never knowingly support lies!

Banned Books
02/13/21

A spirit of timidity and a Spirit of courage. In this episode, we conclude our reading of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Live Not By Lies. What happens when the church chooses a spirit of timidity in order to spare itself affliction? Also…

Featured Resources

Banned Books

Podcast

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…

Crucifying Religion

Donavon Riley
07/01/19

Jesus is the end of all religion. He did not come to tweak Judaism or create a new religion. When the nails were driven into his hands and feet, when the spear pierced his side, when he said, “It is…