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You are listening to The Mortification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing

Evangelicals. My name is Todd Pruitt. I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in

Harrisonburg, Virginia. And I am joined by Amy Bird, author of Housewife Theologian. Also, it's the name of her blog.

I encourage you to go to that blog.

And of course, Carl Truman, professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Actually, you hold a chair of church history.

I do.

And a very comfortable one.

Yeah, you sit upon the Paul Woolley chair. I do. And that brings comfortable one. Yeah, you sit upon the Paul Woolly chair.

I do. And that brings up all kinds of images, a Paul Woolly chair. I know that you can't say anything

because it's a family and we need to be very careful with making fun of somebody's name.

That's why Carl is being conspicuously quiet. The chair is distinguished but not woolly with a small.

Right, right.

Capital Woolley.

I do actually have a physical chair at Westminster when you get a chair.

You really do get a chair?

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