The Political Christian

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Should Christians be involved politically? “How can they not be?” asks David Innes when he sits down with Carl and Todd to discuss the upcoming Prince George’s Conference on Reformed Theology, The Political Christian: Citizens of Heaven in the City of Man. Partisan politics has divided our country and, sadly, even our churches. How are we to think biblically about government and our role in it? Thank you P&R Publishing for providing copies of David Innes’ book, Christ and the Kingdoms of Men, for a giveaway. Congratulations to the winners: Maggie C. from Slippery Rock, PA, Isaac H. from Bloomfield, CT, and Aaron S. from South Royalton, VT! Show Notes: To find out more about the Prince George’s Conference on Reformed Theology, September 29-30, 2023 in Washington, D.C. and to register to attend, visit https://www.alliancenet.org/thepoliticalchristian.

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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.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. Welcome to Mordification of spin. My name's Kyle Truman. I am Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in beautiful Western Pennsylvania. I'm here as always with my longstanding friend and co-host, the Reverend Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Good to be with you, Todd.
1:12.0	Good to be with you, Carl. Great to see you again on this wonderful day. You know, it's always a
1:17.2	great day, Carl, when I get to see you. Likewise. Likewise. It's good to see you through a screen,
1:22.4	though, rather than in person. Keeps a nice distance. Much better. Yeah, there's no temptation. There's no awkward moments like if I reach out to hug you or anything like that.
1:31.3	We don't have to bother with any of that when we're doing this remotely.
1:34.3	Any updates on the Magnum Opus on baptism that you've been writing to last two decades?
1:40.3	No, Carl.
1:41.3	No, no, no, no, nothing like that. I, I, um, what I have found about writing is that, um, I've, I've gotten to where I can write
1:50.8	a pretty good sentence.
1:52.1	What is much more challenging is writing a whole series of really good paragraphs that you
1:57.2	can somehow manage into a book.
1:59.0	Now, that's the challenge.
2:00.0	That's true. That's true.
2:01.0	That's true.
2:01.5	You've got that in a Hemingway perfectionism coming through.
2:05.3	Well, and plus, the other thing I found is writing something good takes a long time.
2:12.3	Like, you actually have to sit and be committed to doing things like writing a thousand decent words every day over a long
2:19.5	period of time. You do. That's the... So it requires discipline. Yeah.
2:23.3	Hemingway. Hemingway did that apparently. Yeah. It worked a number of words every day. And my friend
2:28.1	Alexander DeSanctus told me that Hemingway would also finish his day's writing mid-sentence, which I thought was particularly
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