Banned Books

Little Plastic Castles. In this episode, we read the first Inkling, Owen Barfield, as he defends the use of old words, old stories, and old ways of expressing what's good, beautiful, and true against modern proponents that argued for more modern "scientific" ways of judging language, esp., poetics and myth, as well as religion and culture. SHOW NOTES: Owen Barfield Bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Barfield Barfield 1517 Article https://www.1517.org/articles/unsung-inklings-owen-barfield Poetic Diction https://owenbarfield.org/selected-books/poetic-diction/ Anthroposophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy<...

Liturgy Amongst the Rubble. In this episode, we read poems by W.H. Auden about pulp fiction, ancient myths, conversion, liturgy, poetics, and how industrialization and corporatism build a new Babel inside and around the churches. SHOW NOTES: WH. Auden Bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden The Orators (1932) https://archive.org/details/oratorsenglishst0000aude/page/20/mode/2up Horae Canonicae (1955) https://vladivostok.com/speaking_in_tongues/auden9eng.htm Merlin's Isle by Guite https://www.rabbitroom.com/post/announcing-merlin-s-isle-an-arthuriad-by-malcolm-guite More from 1517: Support 1517...

Wetly All the Way. In this episode, we visit with author Kathryn Morales about her new book, Remembering Your Baptism. We discuss who should be baptized and why. How many times does someone need to be baptized? Can someone fall away from baptism, and what if someone doubts that baptism saves them from judgment and death? This and much, much more on today's episode of the podcast. SHOW NOTES: Remembering Your Baptism https://amzn.to/4ftHOu4 Buy direct @ 1517 https://shop.1517.org/products/9781964419039-remembering-your-baptism Selected Sermons of Norman Nagel by Norman Nagel...

Got A Machine Head. In this episode, we read J.R.R. Tolkien's letter to his son, Christopher, about a question of Genesis' unfashionable status amongst Christians and those who value beautiful 'stories.' He also discusses Eden as it was, as it is to faith, and will be on the last day, the war of the machine, its triumph, and the consequences for modern man. SHOW NOTES: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition https://amzn.to/45fGOFc Löhe Martyrology https://emmanuelpress.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/loehe_martyrologium.p...

The Secret of My Success. In this episode, we answer a listener's question about success and the Christian life. How does one measure success? What about when we fail? Is that God's will? How does the cross inform the Christian definition of success? This and much, much more on today's Christian podcast! SHOW NOTES: BBC4 - In Our Time, Dragons https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dzy4 Hobbes - Leviathan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book) More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: https://www.1517.org/donate-podcasts 1517...

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away. In this episode, we read the Outlaw God and discuss the hidden life of a Christian. How are Christians to understand the living Word, or Christ crucified before Adam and Eve, or being called into vocations that serve the kingdom of life rather than a culture of death? SHOW NOTES: Steven Paulson - Outlaw God https://amzn.to/4kHmP8s Outlaw God Podcast https://www.1517.org/podcasts/outlawgod Saturday Seminar: The Impossible Prize: Addiction, Grace and the Unfree Will https://www.1517.org...

What Do You Mean, There's More to This? In this episode, we answer a listener's question about Taylor Swift that leads us into a conversation about symbols and meaning, religious iconography, wild truth, and seeing reality through what's occurring in the sacraments. SHOW NOTES: Tolkein - The monsters and the critics, and other essays https://archive.org/details/monsterscriticso0000tolk Martin Luther's Commentary On Saint Paul's Epistle To The Galatians https://shop.1517.org/products/9781945978241-martin-luthers-commentary-on-saint-pauls-epistle-to-the-galatians ST. BASIL OF CAESAREA - To a fallen virgin https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3202046.htm <...

Little Willy Plays in Duty. In this episode, we read Steven Paulson's Outlaw God, discussing the appeal of the Law (in the abstract), why old Adam loves pretending he has free will, the Ninevite Conundrum, Jonah's wormy preacher, and our obsession with placing therapy alongside Christ as a means of grace. SHOW NOTES: Steven Paulson - Outlaw God https://amzn.to/4kHmP8s Outlaw God Podcast https://www.1517.org/podcasts/outlawgod Saturday Seminar: The Impossible Prize: Addiction, Grace and the Unfree Will https://www.1517.org/events/riley-stjohn-25 ...

The Long and Winding Road. In this episode, we answer another listener's question about civil disobedience, understanding the tension for old Adam that's inherent within the two kingdoms doctrine, and we go down a bunch of alleyways picking through conspiracies, immigration, war, colonialism, and ice cream coveting. SHOW NOTES: The Night Manager https://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Manager/dp/B0C4W1DHBN New World Order book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_World_Order_(Robertson_book) More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: https://www.1517.org/donate-podcasts 1517...

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. SHOW NOTES: Steven Paulson - Outlaw God https://amzn.to/4kHmP8s Outlaw God Podcast https://www.1517.org/podcasts/outlawgod Theology is for Proclamation https://amzn.to/4kNVRw5 Where Pride Fails, Grace Breaks In https://www.1517.org/articles/where-pride-fails-grace-breaks-in How Christians Should...

Just Answer the Question. In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically active and passive choices, active and passive righteousness, election and the bondage of the will, addiction, the limits of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the ultimate Good we all seek, and much, much more. More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: https://www.1517.org/donate-podcasts 1517 Podcasts: http://www.1517.org/podcasts 1517 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@1517org 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/1517-podcast-network/id6442751370 1517 Events Schedule: https://www.1517.org/events 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education: https://academy.1517.org/ What's...

Strong Words for a Strong Word. In this episode, we read Steven Paulson's book, The Outlaw God. We discuss preaching, doing God's Word to listeners, calling out curses and blessing confessions, using strong words to expose and condemn the devil and the world, and much, much more. SHOW NOTES: Steven Paulson - Outlaw God https://amzn.to/4kHmP8s Outlaw God https://www.1517.org/podcasts/outlawgod Theology is for Proclamation https://amzn.to/4kNVRw5 More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: https://www.1517.org/donate-podcasts 1517 Podcasts...

I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. In this episode, we discuss how pre-modern church history, the Industrial Revolution, therapeutics, language, corporate culture, and the flight of heretics from Europe in the 17th-18th century affected contemporary Western churches. SHOW NOTES: The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age https://amzn.to/43cElvv On Pornography, Hunger, and Holy Rescue https://www.1517.org/articles/on-pornography-hunger-and-holy-rescue More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: https://www.1517.org/donate-podcasts 1517 Podcasts: http://www.1517.org/podcasts 1517 on YouTube: https://www.youtube...

Come Together, Right Now… In this episode, we read from Tim Keller's sermon, which asks, "What is the Church?" We discuss the relationship between churches and culture, what the church is and isn't, where we locate faith, whether Christian faith changes one's values, and much more. SHOW NOTES: A Vision for a Gospel Centered Life by Dr. Timothy Keller https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/keller/AVisionforaGospel-CenteredLifeTimothyJKeller.pdf Dalai Lama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama 160: Timothy Keller - Biblical justice differs in significant ways from all the secular alternatives ht...

Burning Down The House. In this episode, we continue our discussion of election, addressing the certainty of election, how we are chosen, the human limits of perseverance in faith, why the pope is a bad example of Christian piety, and how old Adam tries to invert election by burying it in our sacrifices and pious morality. SHOW NOTES: The Book of Concord (New Translation): The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church https://amzn.to/3YbpA9h Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God https://thebookofconcord.org/formula-of-concord-solid-declaration/article-xi/ ...

Somebody Told Me. In this episode, we read the Book of Concord on election, and discuss why God chooses to forgive all people on the cross, why some reject the gospel, why Lutherans reject double predestination, what the consequences are to trust that we are always justified for Christ's sake, and much, much more. SHOW NOTES: The Book of Concord (New Translation): The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church https://amzn.to/3YbpA9h Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God https://thebookofconcord.org/formula-of-concord-epitome/article-xi/ Two Hundred...

Over And Done With. In this episode, we read Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope and discuss the validity of the papacy's claims to divine authority, the response of Lutherans and Protestants to the death of Pope Francis, how to love one's neighbor while disagreeing them, the distinction between heterodoxy and heresy, and much much more. SHOW NOTES: Complete Sermons of Martin Luther - Klug https://duckduckgo.com/?q=complete+sermons+of+martin+luther+klug&t=osx&ia=shopping&iax=shopping Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History...

Sunday Bloody Sunday In this episode, we read Martin Luther's sermon for Maundy Thursday (1534), discussing the Lord's Supper, polity, sacramental piety, fellowship, election, and all the rabbit trails we follow… SHOW NOTES: Complete Sermons of Martin Luther - Klug https://duckduckgo.com/?q=complete+sermons+of+martin+luther+klug&t=osx&ia=shopping&iax=shopping Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter https://amzn.to/42jreZ0 Postman quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7942005-what-orwell-feared-were-those-who-would-ban-books-what More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: ht...

Can't You See. In this episode, we read the Lutheran theologian Matthias Flacius, and discuss inter-church debates, the Lord's Supper as ground zero for most church conflicts, the consequences of compromise in matters of faith, the limits of love, and when it's time to push away from the table and go into prayer. SHOW NOTES: Adiaphora and Tyranny https://amzn.to/4iSmFKN Bente on Flacius Heresy https://thebookofconcord.org/introductory-materials/historical-introductions/the-flacian-controversy/ Matthias Flacius and the Survival of Luther's Reform https://amzn.to/4jiRHeP Aspidochelone https://en...

Kick Out the Jams. In this episode, we focus on the raw, real work of life in the parish—the ordinary burdens, the hidden insecurities, and the quiet faith that holds it all together. We explore the distinction between philosophy and theology and why attempts to fuse them often leave both diminished. There's talk of reformation—its drama, its necessity, and its cost. We reflect on the pervasive victim-perpetrator dynamic that shapes so much of modern life and how the gospel when rightly preached, breaks that cycle. At the heart of it all is this: the power of C...