Thoughts for Young Men

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Mortification of Spin, Carl and Todd discuss the pressing issues facing young men today, exploring the need for role models and the church's potential to fill this void. The church is a community, and if we're living in a world where young men really lack good role models, there is a tremendous opportunity for the church to speak to that. -- Carl Trueman They discuss the cultural landscape, the challenges of modern masculinity, and the importance of mentorship within the church community. Join them for a thought-provoking conversation that aims to inspire and encourage young men to embrace their identity and responsibilities in today's world.We are pleased to offer three copies of J.C. Ryle’s book, Thoughts for Young Men, to our listeners, thanks to the generosity of Banner of Truth Publishing. Enter here for the opportunity to win.

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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 is Carl Truman. I teach religious studies, biblical and religious studies, at Grove City College and Western Pennsylvania.
1:01.0	And I'm here with my long-standing friend and co-host, the Reverend Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America,
1:12.6	based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Good as always to be with you, Todd.
1:17.8	Great to see you, Carl. Good to chat with you. Always a pleasure. I know that you feel
1:24.0	particularly blessed to number me among your friends. And I think you're swell.
1:34.9	Yeah. Well, thanks. I mean, you are among my top three friends. I mean, you think that I only
1:39.4	actually have four friends. That's pretty good. That's right. You know, Carl, I, somebody was asking me recently
1:47.4	at a conference I was at, they said, how long have you known Carl? How did you meet Carl? And I gave
1:52.9	them, you know, the story. I think I've talked about it on here before, but it just reminded me
1:56.8	when I was getting ready to move to Philadelphia in 2009, I'd seen all the furor
2:03.9	going on at Westminster over a particular Old Testament professor.
2:09.0	And I saw your name as the academic dean.
2:11.9	And you were the academic dean.
2:14.1	And I had recently, interestingly enough, I had recently around that time picked up a book,
2:21.4	just a collection of your essays entitled Mortification of Spin. And I'd loved reading them. And then I
2:28.8	saw that this controversy going on over, over basically the trustworthiness of scripture and how you are the academic
2:35.4	dean that I stumbled upon an anonymously ran website that just was like going after you guns of
2:41.3	blazing. And I thought, man, this is fascinating. And then I found out, you know, I accepted a call to
2:46.7	Philadelphia. I go to Philadelphia. And one of the board members said, hey, would you like to
2:51.3	meet anybody on faculty? And I said, I need to meet Carl Truman. I really like this little book I got
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