Q&A - War, Pacifism, and Book Recommendations

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After the crew concludes that #EpsteinDidNotKillHimself, and plays a fun rhyming word game, it’s time to address some serious questions from our listeners. Among today’s topics: War and Just War Theory. Is there truly such a thing as a “just war?” What is pacifism, and are different forms of it? What should be the relationship between church and state in matters of war? Changing gears…What are some books that everyone should read before high school graduation? From classic literature to modern, there are some great picks! Show NotesThe City of God by Augustine of HippoWuthering Heights by Emily BronteThe Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton The Pilgrim’s Progress by John BunyanGod Breathed by Rut Etheridge III Episode with MoSChristless Christianity by Michael HortonConfessions by Augustine of Hippo

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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.
0:45.3	I am your host, Carl Truman, here with my other two hosts.
0:49.3	Todd Pruitt, pastor of...
0:52.3	What are you, pastor of time?
0:54.8	Some PCA church in Harrisburg, the junior.
0:56.5	Some PCA church in the Cheninville Valley.
0:57.7	And head of the Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself committee.
1:02.1	And Amy Bird, the housewife theologian.
1:05.7	And I would say bane of both of our lives, probably, Todd.
1:10.0	Indeed.
1:11.1	Hold that as a bad divider.
1:12.8	So, Amy, you're going to educate me yet further in things that I don't need to know.
1:16.5	By the way, I want to say that one of the great things about having an English accent is in class.
1:21.1	I love to tell the kids how I have no idea what, say, DM means, or, you know, R-O-T-L is it well they kill themselves laughing but the great
1:32.6	this is this is the great thing ROTC if you have an English accent and you wear a Tweed jacket and a
1:38.9	tie as I do then when it comes to to modern idioms the less you know, the more brilliant you know.
1:45.7	No, the less you know, the more ridiculously funny you look.
1:48.6	No, they think I'm a genius because I don't know any of this modern stuff.
1:51.9	And just to update our audience here, Carl...
1:53.8	Maybe they're wanting you to think that.
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