Best of Mortification of Spin - Walking Through Twilight

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mortification of Spin is on holiday in June, so we are enjoying a few powerful episodes of the podcast just one more time. In 2018, Douglas Groothuis joined the conversation. He’s professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary and had recently written a very personal book titled Walking through Twilight - A Wife’s Illness, A Philosopher’s Lament. Groothuis reflects on his role as his wife's primary caregiver. He shares with us his personal suffering and life’s dynamics in light of her illness, the ministry of the body of Christ, and how God is glorified through it all. How does one lament biblically? What are some practical ways in which the local church can minister to and help the suffering brother or sister? This topic is one that many of us have or will face one day. Listen closely and learn about lamentation from the tender heart of a philosopher. Show Notes Know more about Douglas Groothuis Dr. Groothuis’ 2015 article Primary Progressive Aphasia

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best of mortification of spin.
0:03.3	Think of it as a brief summer recess for the podcast that talks about things that count.
0:08.7	And now, the best of mortification of spin.
0:12.1	Music Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:35.2	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:39.1	Evangelicals. Let's join this week's conversation.
0:59.2	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
1:00.8	It's great to have you with us today.
1:05.1	I'm here with my usual co-hosts Amy Bird, the housewife theologian, and Todd Pruitt,
1:09.3	pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:13.6	And I'm Carl Truman. We're very privileged to have a special guest today. His name is Douglas Gruthaus. He's the Professor of Philosophy at Denver
1:19.4	Seminary in Denver, Colorado. But we haven't got Professor Gruthaus on in order to talk to him
1:25.0	specifically about his academic discipline. He's coming
1:29.1	on the program to speak about a new book that he's written, Walking Through Twilight,
1:33.9	a wife's illness, a philosopher's lament, which is a very, very personal reflection upon an
1:41.7	illness that his wife has been experiencing now for some time and which has brought
1:45.9	an element of deep sadness and some chaos into their lives.
1:50.5	So it's great to have you with us, Professor Grudehouse.
1:53.0	Thank you.
1:53.6	Happy to be with you.
1:54.9	Could you explain to our listeners your situation at the moment and what's going on in your life?
2:00.6	Yes, my wife, Rebecca Merrill Grodhuis, who is an author and editor,
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