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Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Carl, Todd, and Aimee are sitting on a blanket under a tree, bickering over who’s been reading the best summer books. As it’s hard to point to one book among the stacks and stacks of good stuff out there, the trio decides to compromise, and share some of their recent favorites.From their picks, you’ll get a little flavor of several different genres—Christian and non-Christian alike—both, meant to cause one to think on matters of life and death. Get a pen and paper and start taking note of their recommendations. Tell us what you’ve been reading by tagging us on social media: #MortificationOfSpinWe want to enrich your life with the opportunity to win a free copy of Michael Morales’ book, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus.Register now!UPDATE: Here are the picks discussed on the show!Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? (L.Michael Morales)Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)Being Mortal (Atul Gwande)The Lost Vintage (Ann Mah)The Green Mile (Stephen King)Our Bodies Ourselves (Judy Norsigian)Carl's latest book (no title offered)Catch 22, Jane EyreDignity (Chris Arnade)The Professor and the Parson (Adam Sisman)Norco 80 (Peter Houlahan)Against God and Nature (Thomas McCall)Theoretical and Practical Theology (Petrus Van Mastricht)

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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.
0:32.7	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin. My name is Carl Truman. I'm Professor of Biblical
0:48.8	and Ridge of Studies at Grove City in Western Pennsylvania. And I'm here with my two friends,
0:55.9	unusual co-hosts, Todd Pruitt,
1:00.9	pastor of Harrisonburg, pastor of a PCA church. He's not pastor of Harrisonburg in general,
1:06.8	although some people consider me that way. He would aspire to be said. He's actually a pastor of a mega church covenant in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:12.1	And Amy Bird, the woman's pastor.
1:18.1	Is OPC doing that now?
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:21.4	I was thinking about doing like a Labor Day sermon.
1:24.2	Yeah.
1:25.4	Yeah, I think OPC's doing that now.
1:27.0	I mean, there's a few, there's a few things
1:29.8	happen in the OPC. I won't get into any detail. Yeah, we're talking to the Southern Baptist
1:34.6	Convention about this. There's a few interesting things going on in the OPC, which might actually
1:40.3	someday have to be dealt with, but I'm just speculating. I don't want to get into any controversy here.
1:45.2	I'm just saying.
1:46.2	Well, if we want to avoid controversy, if you want to
1:49.1	I think you just confuse a listenership there by mispronouncing the word.
1:54.7	Oh, sure.
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