Happy Lies

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Todd welcome special guest Melissa Dougherty to the podcast, a Christian apologist best known for her YouTube channel, where she covers a variety of theological topics. Melissa is also the author of the thought-provoking book Happy Lies: How a Movement You Probably Never Heard of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World, in which she shares her insights on the New Thought movement, exploring its seductive nature and how it differs from New Age beliefs. New Thought will deceive you before the New Age ever will because New Thought is made to look and sound Christian. – Melissa Dougherty The discussion explores the historical origins of New Thought, its influence on American evangelicalism, and the implications for contemporary Christian thought. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that encourages listeners to critically engage with the ideas shaping our spiritual landscape. We are pleased to offer three copies of Melissa Dougherty's book, Happy Lies: How a Movement You Probably Never Heard of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World, to our listeners, thanks to the generosity of Zondervan Publishing. Enter here for the opportunity to win. Show Notes: Check out Melissa’s YouTube channel here.

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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. Welcome to Mordification of Spin. My name's Kyle Truman.
0:54.7	I'm professor at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, and I'm here, as always, with my boon companion.
1:01.7	The right Reverend Todd Pruitt.
1:05.9	Heavy emphasis on the right.
1:07.3	The right reverend.
1:08.0	I was going to say His Holiness, the Reverend Todd Pruitt,
1:11.7	pastor of Harrisonburg, a covenant PCA, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America in
1:18.8	the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, specifically Harrisonburg, Virginia. Good to be with you, Tom.
1:25.1	Carl, always great to be with you. I'm here back in Pennsylvania
1:31.1	as we are recording in person. I have not lived in Pennsylvania in 12 years, and I will say this.
1:38.0	I love living in Virginia. Well, I love living in Western Pennsylvania. I love that.
1:44.7	You sent me a picture recently.
1:46.8	I think you or one of your friends had seen that road sign outside Philadelphia saying,
1:52.0	avoid Philadelphia.
1:53.6	And we both, having lived in Philadelphia, completely resonated with that sentiment.
1:58.4	Amen and amen.
1:59.7	Yes, yes.
2:00.8	May it be so. Hey, it's a great pleasure
2:03.4	today to have a special guest. Her name is Melissa Doherty. She's a Christian apologist who has
2:09.6	a very successful YouTube channel. She is a, I think, both a graduate and a current student at Southern Evangelical Seminary.
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