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Ep64 | Donavon Riley The Collapse of the Church and Western Culture

January 30, 2026 • Michael

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.

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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?

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