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Mortification of Spin

Finding God in the Ordinary

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4853 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At first glance, drinking coffee or watching birds on a telephone wire might not inspire a sense of wonder. But can we find more in these ordinary moments? Pierce Taylor Hibbs is the associate director of the Theological English Department at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and he’s joined the conversation to help us recognize the sacred in that which may seem mundane. Pierce has written Finding God in the Ordinary, offering reflections on (re)training the mind to see creation through the lens of Scripture, in all its awesomeness. Is it possible to see God’s hand in this fallen world when dealing with things like anxiety and death? Hibbs provides a helpful and nuanced perspective.Show NotesAbout Pierce Find Pierce hereKarl Ove KnausgardKenneth Lee PikeThe Speaking Trinity and His Worded World by Pierce T. HibbsStruck Down but not DestroyedRegister for the opportunity to win a free copy of Finding God in the Ordinary. The copies are a complimentary gift from our friends at Wipf & Stock.

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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. Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin.

0:45.9

My name's Carl Truman, a professor at Grove City College, and I'm here with my usual co-hosts, Todd Pruitt, PCa Pastor in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Amy Bird,

0:57.3

empowering women since what, 1962, something like that?

1:01.3

Hey, I'm not that old.

1:03.3

Well, today we have a special guest.

1:05.3

It's a real pleasure for me to introduce actually a former colleague, somebody that I worked with and alongside at Westminster for some years.

1:14.4

His name is Piers Taylor Hibbs, and he currently serves as the associate director of the theological English department

1:21.5

at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. But it's not his connection with the seminary that we're interested in today,

1:28.6

so much as a new book he's published entitled Finding God in the Ordinary. Great to have you

1:35.4

with us, Pierce. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Happy to be here. Great. I wonder if you could start by

1:40.4

giving us a little summary of your book or tell us what motivated you to write it?

1:46.0

Sure. Yeah, I was actually, the idea for the book came from an NPR interview that I heard on my way home from work one day.

1:57.5

They were interviewing the Scandinavian writer, Carl Ova-Knailskart.

2:03.2

And he had just written a first volume in a series of books that were basically

2:07.7

reflections on common objects that he saw in his life.

2:13.7

And he would kind of work through a description and ended up giving each of these objects

2:19.0

a kind of sanctity or larger significance. And I really liked that and I thought, you know,

2:26.5

it's concrete. People love, you know, the concrete, concrete writing like that. But what if a Christian

2:33.7

were writing this book and you had all

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