To Read or to Burn, That is the Question

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Is it wise to recommend authors or quote those you don't agree with? Or is that playing with fire? What reasons justify avoiding a book or author altogether? Carl & Todd stand in agreement - you can respect, disagree with, or even dislike authors you quote. Exhibit A: Aimee Byrd. Joking aside, what's the rule of thumb here? From a preacher's perspective, Carl & Todd lend helpful insights for pastors from pastors and Aimee gives us her usual food for thought. If you have enjoyed this week's Bully Pulpit then you will want Significant Theological Works in the Past 50 years by Douglas Kelly as a free audio download from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. You can also find your free gift at Reformed Resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd
0:24.0	Pruitt and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:30.6	Evangelicals. On this episode, the hosts talk about books. How do we quote people we disagree with who may have some good
0:39.3	things to say? Find out what they have to say about this touchy topic. And keep listening after the
0:45.2	conversation to find out how you can download a free audio message from the Alliance of Confessing
0:50.4	Evangelicals.
1:01.4	Well, we're at one of my favorite activities today, a book burning.
1:08.4	And those of you who know, I'm generally just very, very uptight about books and writers in general.
1:09.1	And so I'm overseeing a PCA book burning.
1:12.5	We're burning everything that I don't personally agree with.
1:16.8	And that even includes a few books that Carl has written like Republicans.
1:20.9	We have a whole section in the bonfire dedicated to Republicans.
1:25.7	So Amy and Carl, of course, are with me. And just, I think they're
1:30.4	enjoying my own enthusiasm. It's seeing so many, so many books be tossed in. I didn't know that
1:34.7	dancing was involved. Oh, yes, there's dancing. Exactly. There's all kinds of pagan head
1:40.1	gear that everybody's wearing. But, you know, one of the things, obviously, some interest has been generated over at
1:48.9	the mortification of Spin site on the fact that we have in podcasts and in some of our posts
1:56.7	that we've written, I'm saying we, I've probably taken most of the hits by actually naming someone that I struggle with.
2:07.1	But we've generated some interest over the issue of what's being written for evangelicals.
2:13.1	We've asked, Carl, you and I've asked Amy, Amy, why is there so much junk written for women?
2:17.2	And I wonder, how do we... Carl, you and I have asked Amy, Amy, why is there so much junk written for women?
2:27.3	I wonder, how do we not only just discern the good from the bad, but also, is there a way to read a bad book to try to call something that might be helpful from it. Is it responsible to quote something,
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