Bully Pulpit: Unabashed Self Promotion

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2013

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Carl from his pulpit and Todd from his heavily armed bunker kick off a new Mortification of Spin series, The Bully Pulpit. In this first episode, in light of a recent hypersexualized musical performance, Todd asks if the church has any credibility on sexual ethics and decency? Or does an unabashed desire for self promotion lie behind such public sexual escapades? Are pastors guilty of the same behavior when they promote themselves or their latest book in the pulpit or on Facebook? We need to be careful not to erode the boundary of what is appropriate for the public sphere and what is a appropriate for the private sphere or we are just as guilty as the pornographers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mordification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:14.2	I'm your host, Carl Truman, Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania,
0:20.5	and I'm here with my co-host, Todd
0:22.8	Pruitt, Pastor-elect of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
0:29.5	This is the first of a new series of Mortification of Spin Podcasts. They're going to be shorter.
0:36.3	They will come out on alternate weeks. They'll be about
0:38.7	10 minutes long, and we're calling them bully pulpits. They're intended to be short, sharp,
0:44.9	shock type of things. We're doing these because of popular demand. We've had, in fact, a letter
0:50.6	from a Mrs. Mary Pruitt from Missouri who has requested that she would like to hear more of her son, Todd.
0:58.9	And we are most happy to be able to oblige Mrs. Pruid on that. So great to have you with me against.
1:05.8	Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, if it weren't for my mom, we would have just under a dozen listeners.
1:12.7	So I'm grateful that she's on board there.
1:16.0	And yes, so we're doing this.
1:17.8	A large Catholic family.
1:19.0	Right, right.
1:20.2	Well, we're doing this long distance, and you're there in Pennsylvania.
1:23.4	I'm here in my well-armed bunker in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and newly a part of a Presbyterian church.
1:33.5	I'm not going to be able to actually call myself the pastor, as you pointed out in the introduction,
1:37.6	until I get through all of the obstacles that Presbytery puts up up which is ultimately a good thing yes this is
1:46.5	a septist convention though not even in the PCA that's right they're uh you know they
1:53.4	seem to uh to be interested in the qualifications of pastors so it's uh it's it's a pretty
1:59.4	thorough process and it's been uhining, but it's been good.
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