Donavon Riley is a Lutheran pastor, conference speaker, author, and contributing writer for 1517 and The Jagged Word. He is also a co-host of the Banned Books and Warrior Priest podcasts. He is the author of the books, “Crucifying Religion,” “The Withertongue Emails,” and, “The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction.” We discuss weak churches, weak culture, and free-thinking.
SUBSCRIBE: Spotter Up @SpotterUp Website https://spotterup.com/ Instagram / wefightmonsters / spotterup Store https://spotterup.net/ Book: We Fight Monsters https://amzn.to/4adf3Rc Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2152638 0:00 Intro Speaking for God, anti-life advocates 2:00 Therapeutics, and Solzhenitsyn 5:58 Dystopian Points of View, Weak Culture 12:18 Father’s Vietnam Experience, the broken world 14:47 Career in laity 16:40 Who are you speaking for, Truth in the church and beyond 24:32 On Killing, Reverence for life, pre-packaged soft totalitarianism 53:37 Escape from Vietnam, Globalist Humanists 39:47 Cultural history and hurtful truth 46:13 A shift in church culture 53:51 Sissies, Enlightenment and the downward spiral 57:00 Communism, Where to go from here?