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🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. |
0:25.5 | Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. |
0:30.6 | Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mortification of Spin. It's great to have you with us today. I'm here with my usual |
0:49.4 | co-hosts Amy Bird, the housewife Theologian, and Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. |
0:57.5 | And I'm Carl Truman, currently at Princeton University, |
1:01.2 | but also pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. |
1:07.1 | We're very privileged to have a special guest today. |
1:10.5 | His name is Douglas Gruthaus. He's the |
1:13.1 | Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. But we haven't got Professor Gruthaus |
1:19.2 | on in order to talk to him specifically about his academic discipline. He's coming |
1:24.7 | on the program to speak about a new book that he's written, |
1:27.6 | walking through twilight, a wife's illness, a philosopher's lament, which is a very, |
1:33.3 | very personal reflection upon an illness that his wife has been experiencing now for some |
1:40.1 | time and which has brought an element of deep sadness and some chaos into their lives. |
1:46.0 | So it's great to have you with us, Professor Grudehouse. |
1:48.6 | Thank you. |
1:49.1 | Happy to be with you. |
1:50.4 | Could you explain to our listeners your situation at the moment and what's going on in your |
1:55.2 | life? |
1:56.2 | Yes, my wife, Rebecca Merrill Grohuis, who is an author and editor, was diagnosed about four years ago with |
2:02.5 | an uncommon and uncommonly cruel form of dementia called primary progressive aphasia, |
2:09.9 | which begins with the loss of speech, the inability to find words, and then it moves from the frontal temporal lobes backward. |
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