{"podcast":{"title":"Banned Books","slug":"banned-books-1005383","podcast_index_feed_id":1005383,"rss_url":"https://bannedbooks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/1/b/e/b1be8b5f4a63f8e488c4a68c3ddbc4f2/banned_books_podcast-20230812-29m6c8u8m4.jpg","author":"1517 Legacy","episode_count":466,"summary":"Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. We all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T22:18:45.859900+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/banned-books-1005383"},"episode":{"title":"442: Giertz - A Shepherd's Letter","slug":"442-giertz-a-shepherd-s-letter","published_at":"2026-06-05T23:14:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/banned-books-1005383/442-giertz-a-shepherd-s-letter","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/banned-books-1005383","url":"https://www.1517.org/podcast-overview/442-giertz","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bannedbooks/BB_442.mp3?dest-id=697691","summary":"We're in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd's Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), \"Crises and Sources of Strength\": \"Christians had been systematically persecuted by the Nazis, and this systematic persecution continued in soviet countries. However, in Western Europe, church leaders like Bo Giertz saw how increasing industrialization was also assisting an increasing secularism. There were huge population shifts into the city, and people lost track of the church even as the church lost track of the people during these shifts. Some political parties were also actively hostile to the church. The trends toward secularism and atheism in the West have continued, of course, and have also become a point of consternation for believers even to this day. This age has not ceased to be evil since Paul designated it as such in Gal. 1:4. So the church continues and will continue to suffer crises, and so the essay \"Crises and Sources of Strength\" takes on a sort of timeless dimension that way. SHOW NOTES: Bo Giertz - A Shepherd's Letter https://shop.1517.org/products/9781948969987-a-shepherds-letter 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 New from 1517: By Water and the Word by Brian Thomas : https://shop.1517.org/products/9781967920013-by-water-and-the-word?srsltid=AfmBOopBUXbtbkYK0o6UHbWQ…","meta_description":"We're in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd's Letter. As translator, Bror Erickso…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10102,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/banned-books-1005383/episodes/442-giertz-a-shepherd-s-letter/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/banned-books-1005383/442-giertz-a-shepherd-s-letter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}