Biblical Masculinity

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Todd and Carl engage in a thought-provoking discussion with Brian Cosby, pastor, author, and YouTube influencer, about the concept of biblical masculinity. They explore the importance of the roles of men in today's society, addressing the challenges and crises facing young men as they seek to understand their identity and responsibilities. The more I thought about it…really distilling down those fundamental callings of a man…it’s not a fundamental identity – that would be in Jesus for the Christian – but certainly the fundamental calling is a duty for men to provide for and protect not only himself, but also his family, his church, and his community. – Brian Cosby With insights from Brian's new book, Provide and Protect: A Guide for Men in a World of Weakness, Wokeness, and Compromise, this episode offers a compelling look at the need for men to step up as providers and protectors in a world filled with confusion and compromise. We are pleased to offer listeners the opportunity to win a copy of Brian’s book, Provide and Protect, thanks to the generosity of Mindster Media. Enter here to win. Show Notes: Brian’s YouTube channel: Provide & Protect Richard Phillips’ book: Masculine Mandate Mindster Media: https://mindstirmedia.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. My name is Todd Pruitt. I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church
0:56.1	in Harrisonburg, Virginia. And I'm joined as always by my friend Carl Truman, who is a professor
1:02.0	at Grove City College this year on loan to Notre Dame. He just swam across the tiber
1:09.4	just for a school year, and he promises he will swim back.
1:13.3	Carl, good to see you.
1:15.0	Good to be.
1:15.6	Good to be here, Todd.
1:16.4	I have a colleague at Notre Dame.
1:17.6	I won't mention his name, a Catholic colleague, and I was talking to him being a Protestant
1:23.3	at Notre Dame, and he said, if you're an Orthodox Protestant at Notre Dame you're still in the top
1:28.4	10% of Orthodox Catholics who are here. It's definitely more Catholic institution than Georgetown
1:37.7	where my youngest son went. But it's like some Protestant institutions we could think of. It's a mixed campus, very mixed campus.
1:46.5	But they've been very good to me, and I've had a delightful, delightful year here.
1:51.7	Good, good.
1:53.1	And from what I understand, we're recording this in February, at the end of February,
1:59.3	you're headed out once again to Rome to meet
2:02.1	with, you know, members of the Illuminati. Who is it? You know, like the Knights Templar. They'll all be there.
2:09.8	Yeah. Now, my wife and I are doing an annual vacation to Rome. What we say to my, to the female
2:15.0	students at Grove, if you're dating a guy and you
2:18.6	ask him, if we get married, will you take me to Rome and he hesitates or says no, kick him to the
2:24.2	curb. You deserve a whole lot better, a whole lot better than that. I would say, sorry?
2:33.1	I was just going to say, and speaking of objective standards of manliness, like,
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