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Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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It seems that reading comprehension difficulties are on the rise. That might be due partly to the great technological advancement of social media, and the ability one has these days to communicate, and discuss profound ideas pertaining to life and death, in just 280 characters.Mortification of Spin understands the issue, and steps up to the plate to help those with difficulty comprehending Carl’s article, “Is Tim Keller a Marxist?” In this episode, Carl--once again--affirms his distaste for the city, and for Transformationalism...all, while defending a man (who happens to like both) from unfair accusations. Confused? You won’t be, after this episode of “The Spin!”Truly yours,The CrewShow NotesIs Tim Keller a Marxist?How to Think by Alan JacobsWe have 3 copies of Alan Jacobs' book to give away! To win a copy of How to Think, register here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.9	Thank you. You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.9	My name is Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by Amy Bird and Carl Truman.
0:50.0	We're really happy that you joined us today.
0:51.9	We want to step into the waters of controversy.
0:56.0	Our friend Carl Truman seems to always be getting himself in trouble with the wrong people.
1:02.9	And some of you may already know where I'm going with this.
1:06.1	Not long ago, Carl published a very controversial piece wherein he made the stunning claim,
1:15.1	and I say stunning claim intentionally here, people, Carl Truman made the stunning claim
1:20.8	that Tim Keller is not in fact a literal Marxist.
1:29.3	Carl, what do you have to say to yourself?
1:33.4	Or for yourself, I'm sorry.
1:35.6	I'm sure you say all kinds of things to yourself, but what do you have to say for yourself?
1:40.0	Well, it's interesting that article actually did not arise.
1:43.5	I was not sitting around thinking, what shall I write on?
1:46.2	I know I'll defend Tim Kallop from the charge of Marxism.
1:50.1	I was approach and asked if I would write it.
1:52.2	And my initial thought was, really?
1:55.8	Somebody's actually got to write this piece.
1:59.8	It took me about, I suppose, about 45 minutes to knock it off one
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