Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

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

Today, our hosts talk with Canadian power couple, Sandy and Linda Finlayson.

The Finleysons are both authors and share their time on the podcast talking about their various interests, including Scottish reformer Thomas Chalmers and writing for children. Stay tuned after to find out how to get a free copy of Sandy or Linda's newest books.

Well, we're broadcasting on location again today. The location is actually secret because the people involved do not want their location revealed to the general public.

But all I would say is we're standing outside a major Treki convention, the annual gathering of

those who, you know, big fans of William Shatner, the great Canadian cultural icon.

And we're privileged today to be interviewing two other Canadian cultural icons.

This is a man who's been known to Reformation 21 readers over the years simply as the shadowy figure

known only as the librarian. Well, today we're going to out him on air. His identity is actually

Sandy Finlinson. He's the professor of theological bibliography and the librarian at Westminster

Theological Seminary. And he's married to the present Mrs. Finlinson,

who is a children's author. Sandy himself has written a couple of books on 19th century Scottish divines.

Linda is well known for writing books that provide short biographical essays on famous Christians throughout the whole of church

history aimed particularly for children to educate them in the history of the faith in the

post-apostolic era. So it's great to have the Finlayson's on board today. I want to start off by asking Sandy.

Sandy, you're a Canadian and a librarian. Most people would regard one of those things as

almost too much to bear, but you're both. How is it that you manage to maintain a relatively cheery disposition,

despite the obvious disadvantages that you've been born with?

Well, life sometimes does throw on difficult curves. That's certainly the case.

I would say, however, that being a Canadian is not all that bad.

There are many things in Canada that one can be proud of. I know that you folks here around this table are fans of popular culture and

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