In The Beginning... It Was Carl and Todd

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As Carl and Todd are nowhere to be found, Aimee is left to defend the bunker alone. There she uncovers that very first MoS recording from the grand ole’ days before she was voted in as “one of the guys.” Not at all surprising, they’re talking about a woman, Rosaria Butterfield in particular, and her first book The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. Join the conversation as we listen to Carl and Todd’s review of this powerful testimony of God’s saving grace and how helpful and instructive it is for the Church. Oh, and Todd’s brief public admission of his dark past as a Baptist.We have a several copies of "The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert" by Rosaria Butterfield published by Crown and Covenant Publications that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the 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.
0:32.8	Thank you. All right, welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:47.5	This is Amy Bird.
0:49.2	And what a weird day this is.
0:51.7	I find myself all alone here recording this podcast. Ironically, I showed up wearing my Save Ferris T-shirt in reference to the Ferris Bueller movie. I don't know how many listeners have watched that classic. you know ferris was playing hooky from school
1:13.1	and he convinced a lot of people that he was sick and the next thing you know everyone in school's
1:18.4	wearing safe ferris t-shirts well i think maybe mortification of spin needs to make a save amy
1:24.4	t-shirt because here i am and we hear these excuses from car now all the time. Oh, I'm in Italy. Oh, I'm visiting with my mom or now I'm in Australia. This is a bad week to record. And so Todd and I were going to show up today and record together, but Todd is missing in action, so it is just me.
1:45.0	It's what we have decided to do for you today is to go way back to day one, into the
1:51.7	archives, into the age of B.A. before Amy.
1:57.0	In the beginning was Carl and Todd, and things weren't so bad, and they made a couple of mortification of spin podcast recordings.
2:06.9	Not all of them have been made public, but then came along a woman, and it was very good.
2:15.8	But the question is, what did Carl and Todd talk about before me?
2:21.9	Well, it turns out that they talked about a woman.
2:26.1	So stay tuned and listen today to their review of Rosaria Butterfield's first book, Secrets of an Unlikly Convert.
2:43.0	Carl, tell us about yourself.
2:45.1	My name's Kyle Truman. I'm Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
2:52.0	I'm a Christian by conversion and a Presbyterian by conviction, and I'm the husband of one wife, the present
2:58.7	Mrs. Truman, and of two nearly adult sons. Very good. Todd, tell us a bit about yourself.
3:05.1	I'd be happy to, my name is Todd Pruitt. I am the teaching pastor at
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