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.

Fornography. If you're a pastor, you've surely dealt with this issue before. This week, pastor, author, and blogger Tim Chalys joins the conversation to shine light on this

hidden but prevalent sin.

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Well, today on the Mordification of Spin, we have a special guest, a man who has triumphed against all the odds of being a Canadian to become perhaps the most significant Christian blogger of his generation.

Tim Chalice, many of you will have read his posts.

His al-a-cart postings are excellent aggregate posts about what's going on in the Christian world and Tim himself has become an influential

voice in our internet evangelical age so it's great to have you on the program Tim

thank you Carl I'm glad to be here it's good to have you first question have you

have you ever met William Shatner I have never once met William Shatner, even though he is a fellow Canadian.

We've never met.

I've never run into him.

Yes, I assume that a cultural icon like that in a small country like Canada would have been known to.

Yeah, he just walks around door to door meeting people.

Anyway, the reason we've brought Tim on today is we want to talk about a topic that has come

up on a number of occasions in the podcast, and that is the issue of pornography.

We live in an age where the accessibility of pornography because of the opportunities that the internet offers both for

privacy and for access to a very wide range of websites has served to make internet pornography,

if not the biggest pastoral problem in the church, certainly

one of the most significant, with many, many problematic aspects. Not only is the obvious

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