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Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Who would have thought a few years ago that today, blogging would be considered a great intellectual exercise…in comparison to the complex ideas we now try to discuss in 280 characters or less?The ugliness of Christians belittling other Christians on social media can be disheartening, indeed. But is there any salvageable reason for keeping a Twitter or Facebook account? The trio comes out to discuss the topic, among others. Our spin-killers touch on the self-promotion of failed ministers who left wreckage behind them, and are now capitalizing on their comeback stories of “grace and redemption.” How have Christians come to ignore the biblical qualifications of church leaders where a ‘Christian celebrity’ is concerned?Show NotesNeil Shenvi on TwitterRobert GeorgeThe book of James talks much about what the Christian speech should and should not be like, so we’re giving away The Message of James—part of The Bible Speaks Today series by Alec Motyer. Register for the opportunity to win a copy. They’re a generous gift from our friends at IVP.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.5	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.7	Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.2	I'm Amy Bird, the housewife theologian.
0:48.1	I'm here with my usual co-host, the pipe smoking pastor Todd Pruitt of Covenant Presbyterian, PCA Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
1:00.0	and the professor, Carl Truman from Grove City College.
1:05.4	That sounds like a good villain name, the president.
1:07.8	The professor.
1:09.6	I like that.
1:12.6	I'm here stroking my white cats. The kind of stick in the library.
1:14.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:16.6	Okay, well, so we were going to talk about a couple things today.
1:20.6	I've just been noticing how repulsive it is to go on Twitter lately.
1:25.6	It's almost hard to even take, and especially
1:30.2	Christian Twitter. Last place I would want to send an unbeliever, it would be into my Twitter feed
1:38.9	because it just seems so angry lately. There's people telling everyone how to think.
1:47.0	There's a lot of name calling.
1:50.0	There's all kinds of false dichotomies.
1:53.0	Lots of false choices, yep.
1:55.0	Yeah.
1:56.0	And what I'm really seeing is, you know, how not only is everyone trying to be provocative,
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