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Featured text: "Life without a Preacher: Darwin's Origin of Species" — Steven Paulson Darwin & The Gilmore Girls. How is Darwin's philosophy of Natural Selection just another Theology of Glory? What are the effects for the churches that have accepted Darwin's philosophy of Natural Selection into their understanding of life, family, procreation, and the Gospel? SHOW NOTES: Life without a Preacher:...

Featured text: "Life without a Preacher: Darwin's Origin of Species" — Steven Paulson Darwin's Unseen Breeder. Why does Darwin run away from God's preacher? How does Origin of Species rely on the doctrine of predestination for its evolutionary mooring? How do Christians at present uncritically accept Darwin's philosophy? SHOW NOTES: Life without a Preacher: Darwin's Origin of Species https://worda...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher Power Up, and Put Down The Hopium. In this episode, we finish our reading of "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher - courage, hope, and the power of Christ to convert and create dissent. SHOW NOTES: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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 NOTE...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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 Ch...

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 T...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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 infil...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher 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/2W...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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 Dis...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher 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 Di...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher 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 Chris...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher 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...

Featured text: "Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect" — Garrett Mullet 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 presen...

In this episode, we discuss pastoral topics, congregational life, the challenges Christians face today, and how things have changed for clergy and the churches since 2020. 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 — CONTA...

Featured text: "Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition" — David Whitford Enemy at The Gates. In this episode, we read and discuss David Mark Whitford's book, "Tyranny and Resistance." What are Christians to do when state and church unite to enforce laws that are in opposition to God's Word and Christian freedom? SHOW NOTES: Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg...