The Desecration of Man, Part 1

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Carl has come out with yet another book, and today, he and Todd sit down for Part 1 of a two part discussion about The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. In The Desecration of Man, Carl argues that modern man’s crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of a simple fact—that he was made in the image of God. The revolutions of modernity have proved in the long run to be fundamentally dehumanizing. – Carl Trueman Todd and Carl explore the cultural implications of modernity's rejection of God, touching on topics such as abortion, gender identity, and the significance of human dignity. Drawing on insights from various intellectuals and a critique of contemporary society, this episode challenges listeners to consider the moral foundations of humanity and the necessity of reconsecrating our understanding of personhood through a Christian lens. We were pleased to award two listeners a copy of Carl’s book, The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity, thanks to the generosity of Sentinel Publishing. Congratulations to Amelia G. from Harrisonburg, VA, and John W. from Van, TX! Show Notes: Episodes referenced by Carl and Todd: https://mortificationofspin.podbean.com/e/feminism-against-progress/ https://mortificationofspin.podbean.com/e/five-lies-of-our-anti-christian-age/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Let's join this week's conversation. I'm You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:47.3	My name is Todd Pruitt.
0:49.3	I'm with you, as always, with my friend Carl Truman.
0:52.6	I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church
0:55.0	in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Carl is a professor at Grove City College currently on loan
1:01.0	to neighbors in the northern, northern, northern reaches of the Midwest at Notre Dame University.
1:10.3	Carl, good to see you today. Good to see you, too, Todd.
1:14.5	How's things? Well, things are going well. As we are recording this, it's in January. I'm in the
1:22.6	Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, which means our weather is, it's winter, but it's nice. Carl is somewhere in the
1:30.8	middle of what Lake, Lake Michigan somewhere, frozen over. I'm glad I'm not where you are.
1:39.0	Just to the east of the big one. Yes. We are expecting, I think, four inches of snow in the next 12 hours. And it starts. We've already
1:48.4	got a covering. Fantastic. Well, I want our listeners to know that this morning, I was getting
1:55.0	ready. I've spent the day so far in my study at home during doing sermon prep.
2:01.7	Man, I'm in the middle of Revelation chapter 13.
2:04.9	It's thick with symbolism and the beast from the sea.
2:09.3	And so, you know, lots and lots of exegetical interpretive work.
2:12.3	But I got up early this morning, rather blindly reached into one of my drawers,
2:17.0	and grabbed out a t-shirt,
2:19.0	put it on, and lo and behold, whose face is staring back at me in the mirror, but that of
2:25.7	Carl Truman and my Truman is my homeboy t-shirt, which we had manufactured way back in the day, back when you had hair.
2:36.1	Back when I had more hair than I do.
2:39.1	Yes, exactly.
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