TOPIC INDEXChristian Apologetics (31)

  1. 149: An Apologetic Primer on Jehovah’s Witnesses

    book
    06/25/20
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    We Are Not Your Kind. Gillespie and Riley respond to a listener question: Are Jehovah’s Witnesses a part of the Christian Church?

  2. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

    book
    03/22/20
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    I’m Not Really A Joiner. Gillespie and Riley finish their reading and discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, state religion, Christian civil religion, and being your own god.

  3. 122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

    book
    03/19/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Welcome to A Church of Pure Imagination. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, what happens when Christianity disconnects itself from what’s concrete and real, especially the incarnation of God.

  4. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

    book
    03/14/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?

  5. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

    book
    03/11/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    That was really traumatizing! I quit! I'm out! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, we talk about how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity can help us check our presuppositions about what Christianity is and is not today. 

  6. Season 2, Chapter 1, Episode 2 with Donavon Riley

    book
    10/17/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis Debi Winrich Donavon Riley
    This episode is with our new friend Jake who has left the church, then Debi talks with Donavon Riley.

  7. When a Christian is Pushed into Atheism

    book
    08/29/19
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    What do we say when a Christian admits the church has driven them to atheism? And they don't mean ideologically.

  8. Donavon Riley - Blatant Self-Promotion of "Crucifying Religion"

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    08/07/19
    1 min
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Banned Books Jumps The Shark. 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!

  9. Q&A with Donavon Riley for "Crucifying Religion"

    book
    07/26/19
    1 min read
    By Donavon Riley
    The following is a Question and Answer session with author and pastor Donavon Riley where we talk about his latest book, “Crucifying Religion: How Jesus is the End of Religion”.

  10. John of Damascus "An argument directed against the Nestorians"

    book
    07/24/19
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    There's Something About Mary — 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.

  11. John of Damascus, Arius, Ariana

    book
    07/17/19
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Fat Camels and Catchy Songs — 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.

  12. John of Damascus - Critique of Islam, pt. 2

    book
    07/10/19
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    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?
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