How the West Was Lost

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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“A thorn in the side of the Archbishop of York.” That’s how our special guest is introduced today. Reverend Melvin Tinker was the vicar of St. John’s Newland in England for many years. He’s now the director of Theology of the Christ Church Network and the author of an amazing book entitled That Hideous Strength, addressing cultural Marxism in society and in the church. Now in a second expanded edition, the book challenges Christians to understand the culture in which they are ministering and the battle they face against the “War of Position." How has the Church contributed to the spreading of Marxist ideas, and what must be done to reverse it? How crucial is language in ideological warfare? Pull up a chair and join this conversation of ultimate relevance and importance! Show Notes ·Antonio Gramsci’s War of Position ·Sir David Lindsey ·“Useful Idiot” political jargon Register for the opportunity to win a free copy of That Hideous Strength. The copies are a generous gift from our friends at EP Books. Click here to learn more about Reverend Tinker, or here for a list of his publications.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by PCRT Live, April 28th through May 5th.
0:05.0	Listen for more at the conclusion of today's program.
0:32.3	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:37.8	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:40.4	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:57.3	Welcome to Mortification of Spin. My name is Carl Truman, professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in beautiful western Pennsylvania. And I'm here with my co-host, Todd Pruitt,
1:05.2	pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America that meets in Harrisonburg,
1:14.1	Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. In the half of the state that isn't known as the People's
1:21.0	Republic of North Korea, I believe. That is correct. Yes. We're in the free state of Virginia.
1:26.9	The free state of Virginia. The free state of Virginia.
1:29.0	Well, it's great to have one of my fellow countrymen on as a guest today.
1:33.1	I googled his name earlier in order to try to get his up-to-date title, and the first
1:37.0	thing I came across was an online petition calling for his firing.
1:43.3	So you know you're in good company when you Google a man's name.
1:46.8	And the first thing that you see is that he needs to be fired.
1:50.5	And I think the position garnered a whole 561 names.
1:55.6	Amazing.
1:56.5	I was tempted to sign it myself, but I saw it was closed some years ago.
1:59.8	So I was not able to add my name. Five years ago. It is, of course, the inimitable, irreplaceable, Reverend Melvin
2:09.6	Tinker, who was for many years, not just a thorn in the side of the Archbishop of York,
2:17.1	but vicar of St. John Newlands,
2:21.2	an Anglican Church in the United Kingdom. He's since retired, and he is now Director of Theology
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