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Mortification of Spin

The Toxic War on Masculinity

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4853 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Pearsey joins Carl and Todd to discuss her important new book, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Books have appeared with titles like I Hate Men and Are Men Necessary? Mainstream news organizations publish articles like "Why Can't We Hate Men?" T-shirts are sold with messages like "So Many Men, So Little Ammunition.” And Christian men, in particular, are being singled out despite social science data indicators. When did the script against masculinity become so toxic, and what effect is it having on men today?  Thank you Baker Publishing Group for providing three giveaway copies of Nancy Pearcey's book for our listeners! And congratulations to our winners: Adam P. from Raleigh, NC, Michaiah S. from Huntsville, AL, and Cathryne S. from Fuquay Varina, NC!     Show Notes: Nancy Pearcey is the author of the upcoming book The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her most recently published book is Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality. Her earlier books include The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (coauthored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth. Her books have been translated into 19 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual." To order a copy of Nancy’s book, The Toxic War on Masculinity, visit: https://reformedresources.org/the-toxic-war-on-masculinity-how-christianity-reconciles-the-sexes-hardcover/

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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. You are listening to Mortification of Spin.

0:52.9

And it's so great to have you on with us today, so

0:56.1

grateful that you're taking time to listen in once again this week. My name is Todd Pruitt. I'm

1:01.4

the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and I'm joined as always by

1:06.7

my friend Carl Truman, who teaches at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania when he's not writing books and traveling the world. And so, Carl, great to see you again.

1:16.2

I'm a little, and I don't really know what to do at this point. I don't know what your schedule has been like, Carl, but it's unusual as I'm looking at you on this screen. You're not wearing a tie, there's no jacket.

1:28.6

Have you just been out working in the lawn?

1:30.7

What's the deal today?

1:32.2

It's the summer.

1:32.9

The students have graduated.

1:34.5

I no longer have to pretend that I respect them, so I'm able to go to my civilian dress.

1:40.1

Excellent.

1:40.7

I'm glad to see that you're wearing a shirt with sleeves.

1:43.4

Yes.

1:43.7

That's a definite improvement on the usual sartorial presentation.

1:48.0

Yeah, it's a banner day for mortification of spin.

1:51.0

I decided to wear a shirt that has both buttons and sleeves and a collar, by the way.

1:56.0

So, yeah, so it's quite a formal affair today.

2:04.7

We're excited about our guest today.

2:11.2

No doubt many of our listeners will know who our guest is today.

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