Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Do you feel the need to be entertained all the time?

Do you often get bored?

This week, Amy, Carl, and Todd talk about how to have

fulfillment that's not simply stimulation. How much of life really has to be entertainment? Let's

join the conversation. Well, Amy and I are on a field trip today.

We thought it would be interesting to find out what it's like to be in a classroom with Carl Truman lecturing.

We're trying to be kind of quiet here at the back of the class.

And really just being in the same room with Carl is illustration. Truman lecturing. We're trying to be kind of quiet here at the back of the class.

And really just being in the same room with Carl is illustration enough. But being in the same room with him lecturing is a perfect segue into a discussion about boredom. What do you think,

Amy? Oh, yeah. It's like the Charlie Brown teacher that we're hearing.

Yes, exactly.

Everything sounds the same.

I'm ready for a little snooze.

I mean, I just feel bad for the students.

Look at them nodding over there.

And I think Carl thinks they're nodding in agreement with them or something.

But anyway, just a little bit of payback there for Carl's absolute torture of me in regard to my preaching.

But the whole issue of boredom came to mind. I ran across an article and we've read it over the last few days about an issue, well, it's rather new, I think, on the horizon, but very

much reflective of the day in which we live. An article by Caitlin Dewey over at the Washington

Post, the title of the article is How to Break Free from Monogamy without destroying your

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