Bully Pulpit: Being Human

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How can Christians appropriately, firmly but sensitively talk about the Bibles teaching on sexuality. Our sexuality is for the glory of God and not a means to its own end. There is so much that can be said about our sexual identity so listen now to Carl and Aimee on the Bully Pulpit as they touch this important subject. Free offer from the Alliance of Confessing EvangelicalsFree download of David Wells' message Unisex: Male and Female from the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology.

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0:00.0	This is Mortification of Spin, a Bully Pulpit from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:11.1	We can continue only with your help.
0:14.0	Visit Mortificationofspin.org to make a donation or call 1-800-488-1888.
0:27.2	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin Burley Pulpit, the shorter podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. I'm your host, Carl Truman, Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological
0:32.8	Seminary in Philadelphia, and I'm joined by my co-host, Amy Bird, the famous housewife theologian.
0:40.0	Our other partner in crime, Todd Pruitt, can't be with us today because apparently, according
0:44.5	to a text I just received, he's at the hospital waiting to pray with somebody.
0:49.7	Sounds inherently unlikely, but we'll take him at his word.
0:57.0	Amy, good to have you on the program. Thank you. Good to be here.
0:59.0	Well, we're airing on New Year's Day, so the first thing I want to say is a
1:03.0	Happy New Year to all our listeners.
1:05.0	Those of you who thought we'd be banned before the New Year have thankfully been proved wrong,
1:09.0	despite popular demand. Today we want to discuss
1:12.9	an issue there. The presenting cause, if you like, will have probably disappeared into the celebrity
1:20.4	gossip sphere by now. But we want to talk about the issue of speaking about homosexuality in the public sphere. A couple of
1:29.4	weeks ago, one of the main characters in the popular TV program Duck Dynasty, I have
1:37.0	to say the quintessential West Virginian docu drama, got into some trouble for effectively paraphrasing certain passages of the Bible when
1:47.4	referring to homosexuality, created something of a media firestorm, and once again raised the
1:55.3	issue of, well, the number of issues. One, the issue of freedom of speech. A number of people
2:00.6	misinterpreted, I think, the reaction of issues, one, the issue of freedom of speech, a number of people misinterpreted, I think, the reaction of the station that suspended him as a result of his comments as an attack on freedom of speech. Of course, freedom of speech, as protected by the First Amendment of the United States, refers to government suppression of free speech.
2:18.3	Private companies have every right to hire and fire,
2:23.3	whomever they want, relative to speech issues.
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