Banned Books

Small Is Beautiful! In this episode, we continue our reading and discussion of Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. This week, small faith communities are the basis for a strong Church and the opposition to oppressive regimes. And after the show, the pre-show as bonus material. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Community https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1439629/  Rush - 2112 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(album)  Citizen X https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112681/  SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517 CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio

Go Big or Go & Go Home. In this episode, we continue to read Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher, and discuss the importance of nurturing a dissident faith and family in the midst of a godless, unrepentantly evil society. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  John Taylor Gatto https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/  Thomas Kinkade https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/09/thomas-kinkade-dark-death-painter  Bob Ross https://www.bobross.com/  Kübler-Ross Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief  The Agrian https://victorhanson.com/the-agrarian/  Charter 77 http://www.freedomcollection.org/artifacts/c/charter_77/  Jean-Luc Brunel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel  TerraMar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TerraMar_Project Mars Hill podcast https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/  Deerhunter https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/  Kingdom of Heav

It’s Good to Be a Weird Family. In this episode, we continue our discussion about the Benda family in Live Not by Lies. Why is it important to raise weird children? What is the long-term impact of raising children to be Christian dissidents? How can we strengthen children to withstand worldly pressures to conform to normalcy? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Baptist minister and a father of American Folk Art Howard Finster https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac/2021-12-02  Donatist https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donatists  Quartet for the End of Time https://www.britannica.com/topic/Quartet-for-the-End-of-Time    CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest

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High Noon for Moral Courage. In this episode, we continue our discussion of the Benda family in Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. How can Christian families utilize books, film, and music to teach faith and moral courage in their children? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Gulag Archipelago https://amzn.to/3oJWCuA  William Bennet - Book of Virtues https://amzn.to/3xdlizn  High Noon https://amzn.to/3nEMaoI  Twelve Angry Men https://amzn.to/3CIXd4F Psalter Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalter_world_map CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

In this bonus episode, we discuss pastoral fatigue, the difficulty in maintaining lies, hatred of what God hates, and the grief of miscarriage. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

We Are Family. In this episode, we discuss families as resistant cells. Families are the foundation of the church and society, and that’s why a totalitarian state must attack the family and replace it. Therefore, what can Christian families, Christian fathers, in particular, do to fight back? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Václav Havel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel  The Flight from Creation https://wipfandstock.com/9781532686979/the-flight-from-creation/  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

Gain The Whole World at The Cost of Your Soul. In this episode, we read and discuss Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. What happens when Christians withdraw from the culture in order to protect the churches from discord and affliction? How can Christian families function to reform and renew the churches? Why are Christians so reluctant to sabotage popular culture with God’s Word? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Shakespeare and the Bible https://www.eden.co.uk/blog/did-shakespeare-write-the-king-james-bible-p1905  Confirmation in the Lutheran Church - Repp https://amzn.to/3jScR7c  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support

A Mighty Fortress is Our God’s Memory. In this episode, we read and discuss Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. Why is communal memory important to preserving correct doctrine? What happens to families when communal memory is lost? When do traditions enable soft totalitarianism to infiltrate our churches and culture? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  List of Federal Agencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States  Sunrise Exposed https://www.sunriseexposed.com  Repressive Tolerance https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html  Johnson Amendment https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1744/johnson-amendment  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.co

Remember That Time We Forgot to Remember? In this episode, we continue our reading and discussion of "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher. What happens when we forget our familial, social, and Christian history? What have been the effects of therapeutic ideology on the churches? What is the benefit, and detriment, of communal memory? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (Author), J. I. Packer (Translator), O. R. Johnston (Translator) https://amzn.to/3BZRckJ  Johnson Amendment https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1744/johnson-amendment  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the wor

The Truth Is Like A Good Steak. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Rod Dreher’s book “Live Not by Lies.” Do we hold our pastors to a specific evangelical standard for preaching and ministry? What damage is done to churches whose members don’t have a firm theological and moral grounding in what’s good, right, and true? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  What Hot Dogs are Made Of - Great Outdoors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001dtJ0srBI  David Chapelle’s Lutheran Take https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/08/brendan-on-dave-chapelle/  Repressive Toleration https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100414515  James Lindsay’s series on “Repressive Tolerance” https://newdiscourses.com/?s=Repressive+Tolerance  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gilles

Lies Are Like Hotdogs. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Rod Dreher’s “Live Not by Lies.” What harm is done to the churches by abandoning the Truth, and what about a society the lives by lies? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  What Hot Dogs are Made Of - Great Outdoors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001dtJ0srBI  David Chapelle’s Lutheran Take https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/08/brendan-on-dave-chapelle/  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

The Cake Is A Lie. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s “Live Not by Lies,” discuss Vaclav Havel, and how the churches’ learned passivity and helplessness have rendered their ministry and outreach impotent. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Masada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada  Subtle Art of… https://amzn.to/3FdaBRc  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

We’re Not Going Anywhere Fast, So Keep Going! In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s book on being a Christian dissident, and discuss the myth of progress. What happens when the church adopts the myth of progress and how does it effect its ministry and outreach? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Dark Docs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3SuH2Ue044b7ACX1syk4A  The Fog of War https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/  Operation Lockstep https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/operation-lockstep/  The Classicist: Destroying Culture https://victorhanson.com/the-classicist-destroying-culture/  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

In this episode, we continue to read Rod Dreher’s book "Live Not By Lies." What happens when therapeutics captivate the church’s teaching? How do we repent of willfully rejecting the incarnation of God In the Church’s worship, and in our vocations? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31  Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie  Monsters of Rock https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-heavy-metal-thunder-rumbled-in-moscow/87048/  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

It’s So Soft, And Squishy. In this episode, we continue to read Rod Dreher’s book on being a Christian dissident. We discuss soft totalitarianism and its effects on the church and culture. What happens when everyone has a grievance and nobody can forgive? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31  Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie  Monsters of Rock https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-heavy-metal-thunder-rumbled-in-moscow/87048/  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

Riley and Gillespie spin off into a pastoral debrief on the effects of soft totalitarianism on the Church and Christians within their vocation. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN https://orthochristian.com/47643.html  Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

Christians Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s “Christian Dissidents.” What is totalitarianism? What are the consequences of soft totalitarianism? What is the Christian response to tyranny? — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  Fools rush in where angels fear to tread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fools_rush_in_where_angels_fear_to_tread  Generational warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare  Shadow Gate (documentary) https://www.millennialmillie.com/post/shadow-gate  Church of the Cosmic Skull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Cosmic_Skull  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work o

Christians Get Ready, There’s a’Change That’s Coming. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. We discuss what happens when society and the churches turn away from God’s Word and the Church, and defect, choosing instead to worship and obey people and things that are not Christ. — SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W  MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN https://orthochristian.com/47643.html  Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm  CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517

Run, Rabbit, Run! In this episode, we read and discuss Spiritualizing Cowardice, by Garrett Mullet. When we read and consider the life of David, how has the popularity of psycho-therapeutic language and post-modern cultural norms in the past century influenced the way we read and teach on Scripture at present? SHOW NOTES: Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect https://onthe.rocks/spiritualizing-cowardice/  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised — CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter Telegram Telegram Chat SUBSCRIBE YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio SUPPORT Gillespie Coffee (gillespie.coffee) Gillespie Media (gillespie.media) Donavon Riley The Warrior Priest Podcast 1517 Podcast Network Support the work of 1517