The Girl Empress

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What do we know about Empress Mathilda, or Maud, as she was best known? Well until now, not so much. “The Girl Empress – The Chronicle of Maud” by Amy Mantravadi is a series of historical novels on the life of this fascinating English character of the 12th century.Amy lets Empress Maud tell her own life story. From the extensive historical research Amy has done, we learn much about the time period. But this conversation is not only about Maud, it’s also about a certain modern theologian and church historian. Thanks to Amy, his wish was fulfilled in the character of Karl of Worms - a heroic character with some moral flaws who briefly appears in the pages of this volume. You’ll not believe me if I tell you who it is, you must listen for yourself!We giving away several Mortification of Spin posters. Enter for your chance to win.You may purshase "The Girl Empress: The Chronicle of Maud - Volume I" from Amazon.

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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.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. Welcome to
0:44.5	the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:48.8	I'm Carl Truman, pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church and William E. Simon
0:53.1	visiting fellow at Princeton University.
0:55.6	And I'm here with my regular co-host, Amy Bird, the housewife theologian.
1:00.9	Good to see you, Amy.
1:02.5	Yeah, it's kind of good to see you, I guess.
1:04.7	Yeah, we did have a glitch with the microphones earlier on where we couldn't actually hear what Amy was saying.
1:08.6	We realized how much the quality of the podcast would actually increase.
1:13.9	You were sad.
1:15.6	Oh, yeah.
1:16.4	Broken hearted.
1:19.1	Anyway, our other co-host, Todd Pruitt, can't be here today.
1:22.9	Sadly, he's had a death in his church, so he's off doing his pastoral and bereavement job this morning.
1:31.4	But we do have a surprise guest, surprise to me anyway, because I've assumed for three or four years now
1:37.9	that this person who kept contacting my email was merely an avatar for Amy Bird. It actually turns out that unless we have a very
1:47.0	highly paid actress or a very sophisticated hologram on the show today, Amy Mantravadi
1:53.9	does really exist. Amy is an online writer. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, raised in Muskegon, Michigan, currently
2:03.7	resides in Dayton, Ohio. She has degrees in political science and biblical literature from
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