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Mortification of Spin

Keeping the Faith in College

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Despite the inestimable success of his most recent book, Carl finds himself “cancelled” by a school where he was to deliver a speech. It’s an outcome that raises Dr. Trueman to an even higher level of recognition; he’s now almost as important as Ryan T. Anderson, who was famously cancelled by Amazon! Now, Carl and Todd hope their special guest won’t be “cancelled” for merely being in their company. Michael Kruger is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, and professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. Although Michael is a scholar and has written some heavyweight theological volumes, he’s also penned some phenomenal books with a pastoral tone. Michael’s latest is Surviving Religion 101, which he says is--for a number of reasons--one of his most personal. This letter-format book is intended not only to help Christians survive the assault on their beliefs on campus, but many other challenges of college life. Confronting doubts, apologetics training, the role of the church in the life of the college student, philosophical and worldview issues—all are on the table as part of this great conversation. Listen in, and tell a friend to do so as well! We are giving away a few copies of Surviving Religion 101. Register for the opportunity to win one. The books are a generous gift from our friends at Crossway.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Western Reformed Seminary,

0:03.8

the Reformed Seminary of the Great Pacific Northwest.

0:07.1

Hear more at the conclusion of today's program. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.

0:34.9

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:40.2

Let's join this week's conversation.

0:53.5

You are listening to Mortification of Spin.

0:56.9

My name is Todd Pruitt.

0:57.8

I'm the pastor of covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

1:01.5

And I'm joined, as always, by my friend Carl Truman, who is professor at Grove City College.

1:06.7

And the recent author of The Runaway Best Sseller, Verizon Triumph of the Modern

1:14.6

Self.

1:14.9

I just bought my second helicopter.

1:16.6

He's into his second helicopter.

1:19.1

They just redecorated their second beach house.

1:21.9

It's quite nice.

1:23.5

But I'm amazed.

1:25.2

Now, what I did find out, Carl, is though, although you have not yet been canceled by Amazon,

1:29.6

you were almost like by proxy canceled by Instagram, weren't you?

1:33.5

I've been canceled by Instagram.

1:35.4

I send an email to Ryan Anderson straight away because the week before I'd been speaking

1:39.7

with Ryan, and I feel so inferior that, you know, my book's still being sold by Jeff Bezos,

1:43.9

and you've been binned.

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