Polite Society has banished Carl, Amy, and Todd to live on Leper Island.

While exploring the island, they found another outcast, one who was marooned a long time ago.

Phil Johnson.

Phil chats with the gang about starting fires with Frank Turk and Dan Phillips.

Charles Spurgeon's famous preaching, the cult of celebrity pastors, and proper forms of worship.

This is Mortification of Spin with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, a weekly podcast of

the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Keep listening after the podcast for a free MP3 download.

Well, today we're broadcasting from somewhere slightly unusual.

Followers of Reformation 21 on the podcast will know that we are essentially banned from polite society.

And we've been recently transported to Leper Island, far from the band of bloggers, far from the people

who actually influence in a positive way, the evangelical world and are leaving a delightful legacy

behind them. And while on Lepper Island, we have noticed that there are a number of other

inhabitants as well. Frank and Dan from Team Piro and perhaps most

important of all, Phil Johnson, the founder of the Pyromaniacs blog. So it's a great delight

today to have Phil with us. The usual team are all here and we want to talk to Phil about a few topics of importance.

But first of all, Phil, Pyromaniacs, isn't that a rather unfriendly?

It's so aggressive.

It's so aggressive.

I feel hurt every time I see it on the bannerhead.

Can you explain yourself?

No, it's hard to explain myself, but I'll give you a try.

Actually, when I decided to blog, it was mainly so that I could poke my finger in the eye of

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