The Way of Medicine

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Carl and Todd delve into the evolving complexities of medical ethics in today's world with guest Farr Curlin, the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities at Duke University and co-author of The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. Together, they explore the crucial role of pastors in guiding their congregations through ethical medical decisions, the significance of understanding human identity, and the challenges posed by advancements in medical technology. …the field of healthcare, the profession of medicine, is divided by disagreements about what medicine is for, divided by or even completely agnostic regarding what it means to be human, and in the absence of a clear understanding of how medicine fits into a well-lived life, is basically offering to do everything possible to try to keep people alive, or offering to relieve people's suffering, however that's understood, in ways that it seems to me are not really compatible with the Christian story. – Farr Curlin In this enlightening conversation, Farr shares helpful insights on approaching medical ethics with biblical discernment. Thanks to the generosity of Notre Dame Press, we are pleased to offer three copies of The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession to give away to our listeners. Register here for the opportunity to win. Show Notes https://www.alliancenet.org/giving-tuesday

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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 Mortification of Spin. My name's Carl Truman. I'm a professor at Grove City College in Western
0:54.4	Pennsylvania, and I'm here as always with my co-host and longstanding friend, the Reverend Todd
1:00.2	Pruitt, who is pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation in the PCA in Harrisonburg,
1:07.4	Virginia. Good to see you, Todd. Good to see you, Carl. It's always a pleasure.
1:12.6	I am delighted that you get to interact with me today. I can imagine it's quite a thrill.
1:22.1	It is a thrill. We've been doing this for, must be 15 years now.
1:26.7	Close to that. It never grows old. You know, Carl, when we started doing this for, must be 15 years now. Close to that.
1:27.7	It never grows old.
1:29.7	You know, Carl, when we started doing this, very few people have been new what a podcast
1:34.1	was.
1:35.0	That's how cutting edge we are.
1:38.2	We had only two microphones.
1:40.4	So when we recorded with a guest in the basement of your church, we have to share one of the microphones.
1:45.5	Yes, indeed. That's how low budget we are. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, and now, of course,
1:51.7	you know, the full capacities of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, which is a financial
1:58.3	juggernaut, has been marshaled to get this podcast out far and wide.
2:06.5	We do. We have three microphones now. It's been a huge capital injection over the years.
2:11.3	Absolutely. Talking about sort of doing it for 15 years, the world now is a very different place.
2:18.1	Yes.
2:18.3	So what it was 15 years ago.
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