Birth of the Cool

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt discuss the evangelical fascination with being cool. The problem with being cool is that it is the overarching culture or zeitgeist that determines what is cool and what is not. Christians are called to be conformed to the image of the Son and this implies some very uncool ramifications which come in for consideration during this interesting conversation. Mentioned on The Birth of the CoolGod's Words: Studies of Key Bible Themes by J. I. PackerYoung, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists by Collin HansenThe Lost Message of Jesus by Steve Chalke

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin, a podcast which comes out under the auspices of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:15.7	I'm your host, Carl Truman, and I'm joined by my good friend and co-host Todd Pruitt.
0:22.0	Todd, yes. Any news? Any news? Well, you and I were talking the other day about your taste of music.
0:31.0	Whenever there's a conversation with you, music inevitably comes up. Now, you and your wife just recently attended a concert by some old English guy who
0:40.5	plays the guitar, right? It was a couple of years ago. It was Mark Knopfler, actually. Mark
0:45.0	Knopfler is impressive because he has aged as I have aged. Not well? Is that the... Well, he's kind of
0:53.4	bald and a bit overweight now as well. But what I like about Mark Knopfler Is that the... Well, he's kind of bored and a bit out of the way now as well.
0:55.0	But what I like about Mark Knopfler is that unlike certain bands out there,
1:00.0	not thinking particularly of the Rolling Stones,
1:02.0	but unlike certain bands out there, Mark Knopfler has kind of slowed down as he's got older.
1:08.0	He can still put together a blazing guitar solos.
1:11.6	But his music as slowed as he slowed as he slowed and his latest album, privateering, I don't think
1:35.1	it's a double album.
1:36.1	I don't think there's a weak track on it anywhere.
1:39.1	Quite superb.
1:40.0	Well, this is what I like about guys like Mark Knopfler, what I like about men like Aaron Cohen
1:47.4	and some other aging guys who have been making music for a long time, is they seem to be okay
1:53.4	with the fact that they're aging. They know it's not the late 60s anymore. And this is my
1:58.8	problem with the Rolling Stones other than the fact that I think,
2:02.6	and Carl, maybe this will offend you.
2:04.2	I think that the Rolling Stones have always been
2:06.4	an overrated band.
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