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.

Let's join this week's conversation.

Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin. My name's Carl Truman and unusually today I am flying solo.

And the reason I am flying solo is that Todd Pruitt has had to bow out of co-hosting because he is a guest on a very important podcast.

So it's my pleasure today as I fly solo to introduce the guest I have.

His name is the Reverend Todd Pruitt. He is pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,

right in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.

Todd, great to have you on the show.

It's good to be on, Carl.

What does it feel like to interview someone of my, oh, I don't know, my notability, my visibility,

the kind of impact I have? I would say it's a humbling experience. It certainly brings home to me all of my own personal shortcomings in universities as I compare myself to you in all of

your glory. It could well be actually the high point of my career.

You know, for many years, I've been wanting to interview you on your book on baptism.

But I've finally given up on that ever actually being published.

Yeah, I was just going to warn everybody that the reason why we're doing this is not because I've written a book.

No, no.

I think most of our listeners probably guessed that actually.

What I've found about writing really well, if you want to write really well, of course, Carl, you know this by now, obviously.

But if you want to write really well, it requires like sitting down for long periods of time and getting really frustrated.

Yeah. Yes. Although I adopt the Hemingway approach of knock up a few hundred words first thing

every morning. And if half of them are rubbish, you've still got a, you know, a hundred decent words.

That's right. That's right. So, you know, maybe there's hope for me at some point.

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