A Dark Cloud for Democracy

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We’re living in a time of many, simultaneous world crises. Are these global challenges in some way related? Seeking perspective and clarity, our hosts discuss one of Carl’s recent articles at First Things, where he ponders why the British seem more concerned with incidents of police brutality in the US than with China’s aggressive plan to diminish Hong Kong’s democracy as Britain’s former colony. How may identity politics and social media be shaping this behavior, and what does it say about us as a society? Carl’s one-word answer: Belonging! Show Notes A Dark Cloud for Democracy

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0:00.0	Today's program is sponsored by Reformation Sites, an easy-to-use website platform helping reform
0:05.8	helping reform churches reach out more effectively. Listen at the end of the podcast for a special offer. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:36.2	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:41.5	Let's join this week's conversation.
1:00.1	Welcome to Mortification of Spin. My name's Carl Truman, professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania,
1:08.6	and with the sad departure of our former co-host, Amy Bird, I'm now here only with one other co-host, the Reverend Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church,
1:12.6	a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America, based in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:18.9	Todd, how are things during the COVID-19 regime?
1:22.6	And what are we going to talk about today?
1:24.2	Yeah, well, I do want to reassure our audience that both Carl and I are gloriously
1:29.1	unmasked. We're disobeying every single rule we possibly can. Ever since the World Health
1:35.6	Organization, just the other day, announced that that whole thing about asymptomatic people,
1:41.8	probably not actually being able to spread the virus.
1:47.0	They did walk that back.
1:48.8	I don't trust their walk back.
1:50.9	I don't trust their walk back.
1:53.4	You know, they come out and they say, you know, the reason why we shut the world down,
1:57.8	turns out we were wrong about that for the most part.
2:02.4	I'm walking around,
2:07.4	coughing on people. I'm hugging people. It's been great. Getting in touch with your inner Rusty Reno.
2:15.6	I am. I am. So we're going to talk about today about confirmation bias. Is that the word?
2:17.7	We are going to, Carl and I are going to talk a little bit about the current world crisis.
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