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Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From rocking chairs on Todd’s front porch, our hosts try to sort out the lack of common sense among evangelicals. The mega-market of media is often “guiding” Christians to replace their mama’s basic teaching or their conscience as to what’s right and wrong.Do we need multiple reasons not to send nude selfies, not to shoot grandma, or not to punch the kid at the bus stop? Are we over spiritualizing things and becoming unable to make common sense decisions? What about that voice inside your head? What about The Pogues? Prophetic Rock? Seeing Jesus in Wonder Woman? The conversation continues into the wee hours, and you’re welcome to join in!We have a several copies of "Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don'd Have To Do" by Phillip Cary published by Brazos Press that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win.Mortification of Spin LiveFor the first time ever (in almost five years), the underground bunker is being cracked open to the public. Aimee opens the door of her home and welcomes you to be part of the conversation with Mortification of Spin on a more intimate level. You can pull up a chair around her dining room table along with Carl and Todd. Join us on Friday September 15 at 1:15PM ET for a live Mortification of Spin podcast recording. Register at alliancelive.org

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a 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. Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin.
0:46.9	Glad to have you with us today.
0:48.9	I'm here as usual with my two co-hosts, Amy Bird, the housewife theologian and Todd Pruitt, who is lead executive
0:55.8	senior pastor at Escalation, formerly known as Covenant Presbyterian Church, Harrisonburg.
1:03.4	I thought we were going to call it a movement founder.
1:06.1	And we're also being watched over today by the relentless and ruthless eye of our new producer. You know that we
1:13.5	were once ruled by She Who Must Be Obeyed, who was replaced by the madwoman in the attic,
1:19.0	while somebody left the door of the attic open and she has escaped and disappeared. And we now have
1:23.9	Cruella DeVille, who has taken time out from slaughtering innocent Dalmatian puppies to oversee mortification of spin.
1:31.9	So welcome to Cruella.
1:34.3	What we want to talk about today is common sense.
1:38.5	Why has it gone out of fashion in conservative evangelical circles?
1:44.5	Why is there so much lunacy being spouted even in what one would have expected to be
1:51.6	comparatively sane theological contexts?
1:57.0	Todd, Amy, common sense, overrated or extinct?
2:00.8	I think there needs to be a new revival of common sense among Christians.
2:06.9	I think one of the things we've talked about a lot is just how overly spiritualized.
2:12.2	Oftentimes the neo-reform have made things.
2:15.2	And so, you know, just some of the examples we've seen is one extremely visible and
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