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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 seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. We all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even...
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Episodes (489)
210b: Hitchens - Eschatology is inseparable from religious faith
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Jun 30, 20211:27:43pending
210a: Hitchens - Religion is the first chance to explain human nature and the na...
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Jun 24, 20211:00:28pending
209b: Hitchens - Religion abolishes obligation to live in truth
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Jun 18, 202159:58pending
209a: Hitchens - Is it moral to tell anybody that their sins can be forgiven?
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Jun 17, 20211:14:16pending
208b: Nietzsche - Seeing the alternative between Dionysus and the "Crucified"
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Jun 12, 20211:09:05pending
208a: Nietzsche - Human history is built upon sacrifice
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Jun 9, 20211:09:16pending
207: A Prayer for Memorial Day
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Jun 1, 20211:45:59pending
206b: Eagleton - The figure of the tortured and executed Jesus is the overthrowi...
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May 30, 20211:26:46pending
206a: Eagleton - Everyone knows that Nietzsche said "God is dead"
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May 28, 20211:01:35pending
205b: Pastoral Debrief on ministry, vocation, and how we learn
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May 23, 20211:08:29pending
205a: Scott Keith - Debrief on Two Kingdoms, Social Media, and Local Vocation
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May 22, 202154:03pending
204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remainin...
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May 15, 20211:31:24pending
203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Ever...
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May 11, 20211:47:31pending
202b: Robert Farrar Capon - Be Authentic and Authoritative Proclaimers of the Go...
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May 1, 202151:20pending
202a: Robert Farrar Capon - The Mystery and Guilt pt. 1
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Apr 28, 20211:03:02pending
201b: Weil - The false god changes suffering into violence
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Apr 25, 202151:22pending
201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell
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Apr 24, 20211:01:20pending
200b: Weil - It is Not Good Which Evil Violates, For Good is Inviolate
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Apr 16, 202157:03pending
200a: Weil - Evil is License and That is Why it Is Monotonous
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Apr 13, 202157:15pending
199: Weil - We Humiliate Ourselves Before False Gods
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Apr 8, 20211:18:38pending
198: Simone Weil - The Cross
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Apr 1, 20211:45:44pending
197b: Leo the Great - Use Lent for general improvement in the whole round of Chr...
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Mar 29, 202140:23pending
197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofo...
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Mar 27, 202145:13pending
196b: Luther - Paul cuts out all merit and gives glory only to God
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Mar 19, 202159:35pending
196a: Luther - I was forgiven only by God's boundless grace
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Mar 16, 202155:43pending
195b: Luther - Mesmerized by the wizardry of the devil
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Mar 13, 20211:02:01pending
195a: Luther - Ancient serpent bewitches not only the senses but also the mind w...
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Mar 10, 202142:23pending
194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive
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Mar 1, 202140:08pending
194a: Luther - God's will is to bless all nations... through Christ
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Feb 24, 202141:49pending
193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinel...
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Feb 20, 202149:58pending
193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free
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Feb 18, 202149:12pending
192b: Solzhenitsyn - Never knowingly support lies!
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Feb 13, 20211:17:16pending
192a: Solzhenitsyn - "I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!"
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Feb 10, 202147:38pending
191b: Solzhenitsyn - We lie to ourselves for assurance
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Feb 6, 20211:06:07pending
191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom
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Feb 4, 202154:53pending
190: Kennedy - The Gospel deals with all of life, because it comes to heal the w...
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Jan 26, 20211:54:17pending
189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most
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Jan 19, 20211:35:15pending
188: Kennedy - This communist doctrine that God is something we can take or leav...
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Jan 17, 20211:40:04pending
187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue
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Jan 7, 20211:29:20pending
186: Christmas During the Civil War
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Dec 17, 20201:09:54pending
185: Christmas after the Enlightenment
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Dec 11, 20201:33:43pending
184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany
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Dec 3, 20201:26:28pending
183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished
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Nov 23, 202052:21pending
182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created orde...
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181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God
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Nov 17, 20201:29:04pending
179: Girolamo Savaronola - O you who have anything superfluous, give it to the p...
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Nov 12, 202043:33pending
178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now!
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Nov 10, 202045:43pending
180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension
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Nov 4, 20201:55:57pending
177: Clement of Alexandria - True martyrdom is the knowledge of the only true Go...
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Oct 26, 202040:26pending
176: Clement of Alexandria - Martyrdom: A Witness Both by Life and Word
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Oct 23, 202044:16pending
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