Death Teaches Us How to Live

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this poignant episode, Todd and Carl welcome author Whitney Pipkin to discuss her book, We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us. Drawing from her own experience, Whitney sheds light and hope, reminding us that we are not alone in our grief. And she reveals the mysterious way God ministers to and transforms us through death and suffering. "The places you are most afraid to go, feel most ill-equipped to venture to, are the places Christ has gone before you." – Whitney Pipkin Tune in as they explore how facing mortality can lead to deeper faith and understanding. This is coming for each of us. How then shall we live? This is the question that each of us has the opportunity to consider at a funeral, but also when we read the news and when loss is far away, and when it's close, really close to home. – Whitney Pipkin Thanks to the generosity of Moody Publishing, we are pleased to offer three copies of Whitney Pipkin’s book, We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us. Enter here for the opportunity to win one. Show Notes: Whitney Pipkin’s Book https://www.moodypublishers.com/we-shall-all-be-changed/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:52.9	My name is Todd Pruitt, and I am the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. And I'm joined, as always, by my friend and co-host Carl Truman, who teaches at Grove City College way out in western Pennsylvania. Carl, good to see you.
1:07.2	Good to see you, too, so. Glad you were able to join us today, the man of the world. Where have you just been most recently?
1:14.2	Well, the weekend I was in Canada. I spoke at a religious freedom conference in Canada.
1:19.9	Now, you know, Canada's about to be the 51st state. I believe we're about to buy it, yeah.
1:25.4	Obviously, we need some way to get to Greenland, which is going to be the 52nd state.
1:29.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:30.2	I can't wait to this greenland.
1:31.9	Yeah, yeah, it was fun.
1:33.6	I was encouraged, actually, with, I spoke to staffers at Parliament.
1:39.0	There are a lot of young people involved in things who really get what's going on.
1:43.1	So I was actually very encouraged by
1:44.8	and on the way home, I was recognized in Dallas Airport. Somebody came up to me and said,
1:48.8	are you one of those guys on mortification of Smith? Oh, goodness. I'm just impressed they didn't
1:54.4	think you were Lex Luthor. No, they asked if I could get your autograph, which was a slight
1:58.7	insult. Let me know. I've got the 8x10 glossies ready.
2:03.0	I'll send them out you away. But who've we got on today? Well, I'm really delighted that our guest
2:10.0	today has agreed to risk her reputation and beyond mortification of spin. Several weeks back,
2:20.9	I got a text from somebody who said there was this new book I needed to check out. And the title of it is, We Shall All Be Changed, How Facing
2:27.1	Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us. The author, Whitney Pipkin, is a journalist who lives in
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