The Ceiling of Self

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Rutledge Etheridge is in the house. He’s assistant professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College, a former chaplain in the same institution, and an ordained minister at Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. “Rut” is the author of God Breathed: Connecting Through Scripture to God, Others, The Natural World, and Yourself, which was born from a rhetorical question by Augustine, fascinating personal observations, and the desire to dig deeper into the disconnect between the claims of Jesus and the way society at large lives day to day.Etheridge explains what he means by “The Ceiling of Self,” and why it’s such a wonderless and lonely place to be. Don’t miss this fascinating conversation on theology, philosophy, and apologetics. Show NotesIs Facebook Making Us Lonely?Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? The Follow UpThanks to Crown and Covenant Publications, we can offer you the opportunity to win a free copy of God Breathed. Register!!

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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. Welcome to the Mordification of Spin.
0:45.5	My name's Kyle Truman, a professor at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania, here with my two co-hosts, Todd Pruitt, pastor of PCA Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
0:58.2	and Amy Bird, not pastor of a church in Harrison, Virginia,
1:03.3	but the housewife, theologian, and all-round busy body and troublemaker.
1:08.5	Bigsy bodies.
1:10.5	Couldn't resist that.
1:11.8	Sorry.
1:12.6	We are pleased today to welcome a guest to the program.
1:16.8	His name is Rutledge, Etheridge, the third.
1:20.0	That's a great name.
1:21.1	Son, I presume, of Rutledge, Etheridge, the second.
1:23.6	Is that?
1:24.9	That is correct.
1:26.0	Who was, I think, a science fiction author, was he not?
1:29.0	He was.
1:29.3	He published six books, I believe it was.
1:31.6	And so I grew up, and one of the fondest memories of my childhood was falling asleep to my dad, clacking away at a Commodore 128 to turn out a 500-page manuscript.
1:42.3	Wow.
1:43.6	There you go.
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