Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,

Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from The Alliance of Confessing

Evangelicals. Pastors are given a lot of authority by God and the church, but what happens when a pastor becomes a heavy-handed leader?

With certain pastors being let go from their churches recently,

the mortification of Spin Crew is taking the opportunity

to talk about abusive pastors and limits and boundaries

in pastoral care.

Let's join the conversation.

Well, thanks for joining us today, and we do want to throw out another desperate

theologizing for you today. Actually, we have found something that we think is going to make

everybody happy and put a smile on your face. Carl, you have found something that may

qualify for desperate theologizing perhaps more than anything we've ever discovered before. What is it?

Yes, it's actually comes via an article written by the friend of this podcast, Rod Dreher and

the American Conservative, announcing the closure of what he describes as the ultra-megal liberal

Episcopal Divinity School. It's a very sadgal liberal Episcopal Divinity School. It's a very sad story.

Episcopal Divinity School is going out of business. And so we thought we'd, you know,

try to help them out. Every cloud has a silver lining. We'd give them the desperate

theologizer award in order to give them some little bit of encouragement

during this time of darkness.

And Rod on his article has a number of quotations from the course catalog of the Divinity

School, which I think may give a little clue as to why they're going out of business.

Let me read you a few.

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