The Propaganda of Pretty

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Which is more beautiful?: Bach or Beyonce? Symmetry or asymmetry? Bald or Blonde? Carl or Todd? By natural design, beauty appeals to us and we seek it out daily whether it's music, art, fashion, or romance. Under sin's curse, we attune our minds to wrong perspectives and standards and make more of what God counts as less. The battle with beauty is something everyone has to fight. So how does the Christian combat against Hollywood's norms and not cheapen the inner adornment of our character without going to the opposite extreme? Today we count the costs of our cultural obsession with beauty, pointing out shameful ways we prize the pretty and cast all the Todd & Carl's to the curb.We have a several copies of "Far Above Rubies: The Life of Bethan Lloyd-Jones" by Lynette Clark published by Christian Focus, that we are giving away. Be sure to enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a 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 the Morification of Spin. This is Amy Bird. I'm here with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, and we are going to try real hard to get this podcast out for you today.
0:56.5	We have been tasked to talk about how Christians think about beauty.
1:02.0	And unfortunately, I need to talk about that with Todd Pruitt and Carl Truman.
1:06.5	So we'll see how we do.
1:07.5	Beautiful people.
1:08.3	Beautiful people.
1:09.8	Now, from what I understand about our earlier discussion, it has something to do with the lack of back hair.
1:15.6	Is that true?
1:17.1	Todd, I asked if you could get through a half hour without talking about back hair.
1:21.0	It's been a long day already.
1:22.6	Amy, I'll tell you what, I got an idea.
1:23.7	He didn't make it 30 seconds.
1:25.9	Amy, why don't you read for us a definition of beauty?
1:29.0	From Webster.
1:30.0	From Webster, if you don't mind.
1:31.2	Oh, it's the online free dictionary.
1:32.8	There you go.
1:33.6	Okay, the primary definition of beauty is the quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses
1:39.5	and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry,
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