Podcast Overview

Author

429: Lewis - "'Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her"

02/20/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

A Church as Big as the Cosmos! In this episode, we enter into Lent with a reading from C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image. We discuss the medieval understanding of life, the universe, and everything— how it can help the churches today deepen their “vision” of how God orders the universe, the church, and the human being. We converse about the Grail legend, how God’s Word encounters and changes people, being lost in the Garden, how Christ ministers through others, and being annoyed by death. This and much, much more on this week’s episode of Banned Books.
- C.S. Lewis
- Creation
The True Myth of the Gospel with Louis Markos

02/03/26

4 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Louis Markos

Kelsi talks with English professor and Christian apologist, Louis Markos, about the importance of myth, storytelling, and imagination within Christian apologetics.
425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact

01/23/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

The Hangman’s Nous. In this episode, we read an excerpt from The Maniac, by G.K. Chesterton, followed by Myth Became Fact, from C.S. Lewis’ book of essays, “God in the Dock.” The primary question we discuss, then, is whether men and women can live a healthy and sane life with mystery, without myth, and without higher truth. What has happened to modern churches that exorcised mystery from preaching, teaching, evangelism, and worship? What anchors the Body of Christ when it’s unmoored from Church history and tradition? What have been the consequences for churches that treat the Christian story as more fantasy than fact? What does Lewis mean that God is “mythopoeic”? What does it mean that Christianity is, according to Lewis, “perfect myth and perfect fact”?
420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business

12/13/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

I’m Wasted, and I Can’t Find My Way Home. In this episode, we again invite C.S. Lewis to teach us about Christmas. We also discuss the early church fathers, worship, symbolism, mystery, Freud and Jung’s influence on modern Christians, consumerism and gift-giving, and, of course, Christmas: all this and much, much more on this episode of the podcast.
419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure

12/05/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Pagan Neart, Christian Soul. In this episode, we read C.S. Lewis’ “A Christmas Sermon for Pagans.” Why does the post-Christian person need to become pagan again to be prepared to hear the gospel? How has a mechanistic view of nature led us to kill each other? Why do we reject the good news that Jesus ended the need for guilt-offerings, sin-sacrifices, and fear about the afterlife? What happened as a consequence of moderns pushing heavenly truth out of the material world? What is the message of Christmas that offers a cure for all that ails us?
414: Luther - God is extravagantly rich in His grace

10/31/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

An Arm-Twisting Confession. In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s Smalcald Articles on the gospel, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper. Why did he have to have “his arm twisted” to write them? What is he trying to teach the churches about the gospel? How does the gospel circumscribe and define the Church, worship, and Christian life? Why does something written in the 1530s matter today? We look to answer all these questions and more on this episode of the Banned Books podcast.
Obey the Gospel AND SUFFER FOR IT

08/16/25

4 mins

By Craig Donofrio | Troy Neujahr

Peter enters into a discussion that doesn't tickle our ears very well, but it still a plain fact of the Christian's life: we will suffer on account of Christ.
Luke 10:1-20 – Pentecost 4 (C)

06/30/25

4 mins

By Steven Paulson | John W. Hoyum

On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the sending of the seventy-two preachers.
- Preaching
- Sermons
- Faith
- Gospel
- God's Word
396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel

06/12/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

All That and A Bag of Chips. In this episode, we return to Steven Paulson’s book, The Outlaw God. We discuss law and Gospel, why God sends a preacher, why we hate Christ preached, and what therapy can do for the walking dead.
The Dangers of Gospel Drift with Jared C. Wilson

05/07/25

12 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Jared C. Wilson

Jared C. Wilson joins Kelsi to chat about his latest book, ⁠Lest We Drift: Five Departure Dangers from the One True Gospel⁠.
Psychologizing the Gospel

04/30/25

4 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

Is the Gospel just a feeling of relief?
- Bondage of the Will
- Gospel
Friday, March 28, 2025

03/28/25

11 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Today on the Christian History Almanac, we wish a happy birthday to the “Godfather of Gospel Music."