Q&A - Children of Believers and Our Fallible Heroes

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Another curious word game introduction sets the stage for answering a few listener questions. Tackled today: Liturgical dance, Carl’s colorful pants and his “Christian journey,” Todd’s no-book deal, studio cough switches, and more. Seriously: are the children of believers considered to be Christians, merely by virtue of being born to believing parents? Or, are they “little heathens?” The crew talks about the Presbyterian and Baptist views on the subject. On another matter: how can we appreciate our heroes from the past without ignoring their faults—involvement with slavery and anti-Semitic views, to name a few? Carl, Todd, and Aimee navigate an episode that evolves from the silly to the sublime! Show Notes · The Sacrifice of Praise by Herman Bavinck

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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.
0:25.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.5	Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.8	I am Amy Bird, a rose sitting between two thorns right now.
0:52.6	Jokers to the left of me and clowns to the right of me, or is it the other
0:55.9	way around? Something like that. Yeah. So to the right of me, I have Todd Pruitt, pastor at Covenant
1:00.5	Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. And to the left of me, I have Carl Truman,
1:06.7	Professor of Humanities at Grove City College. And Carl, we've had some talks, especially with my teenagers, of your love for slang
1:17.5	and you're wanting to learn more of the slang as an undergraduate professor.
1:23.8	Fitting in as American.
1:25.0	I mean, he really has tried Todd to talk to my children and understand their language.
1:31.3	And so, yeah, I listen to a lot of different podcasts.
1:34.4	And so I was listening to this one on my way driving here called Stuff You Should Know.
1:39.1	And it was an interesting topic, and it was on Cockney Rhyming Slag.
1:43.8	Oh, yes. I do know something about cockney rhyming slang.
1:46.7	It's comes from London. I'm not a Londoner. I despise Londoners coming from the West Country.
1:52.1	But it's a way of speaking whereby you have a phrase and the last word typically in that phrase rhymes with the real word.
1:59.6	So apples and pears, stares, trouble in that phrase, rhymes with the real word. So apples and pairs, stairs.
2:02.9	Trouble and strife, wife.
2:05.0	And you can sometimes cut off the last word so I could simply refer to my wife as my trouble.
2:11.3	And it would be assumed that she's my trouble and strife.
2:13.4	Or the stairs would be the apple.
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