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This week's Bully Pulpit finds the free-range gang sipping coffee made by vulnerable baristas

who use only respectfully treated coffee beans.

As Carl, Todd, and Amy get real, they raise an issue magnified by social media,

the blurring of public and private boundaries in our lives, and the phenomena of showcasing our emotions.

But as cage-free as they try to be, you'll have to go elsewhere to see them cry.

After all, there still is a

remnant of those who choose to blubber in private. Welcome to Mortification of Spin,

bully pulpit, a regular shorter podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. This is Todd Pruitt.

I'm here with my friends Carl Truman and Amy Bird. And here, where are we here? Well, I'll tell you where we are. We are in a wonderfully trendy coffee shop serving free range, fair trade, organic, vegetarian coffee. And everybody, oh, it's so, well, everybody here, the the thing the reason why we're here is everybody

here is so authentic and that's what I love about this they can tell me just exactly where

every single coffee bean was grown whether or not it experienced any sort of trauma and I just

feel particularly sensitive today.

Any of them called Colin?

Colin.

His name was Colin.

That's a Portlandia joke that Amy Bird introduced us to.

So I, Carl and Amy, really what I want to do is I just want to be moat with you, too.

I want to tell you my feelings because I want to

be sure above all things exactly that I'm vulnerable which may just be the one virtue that our culture

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