Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,

Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing

Evangelicals. On this week's edition of Desperate Theology, there's something Presbyterians and

Prince have in common.

And some undisclosed listeners have asked our hosts for a clarification on their complementarian

views.

It's perhaps the longest on-air dispute between our hosts, and it's a shame you can't see the punches.

Well, we have a special treat for you again today because we are, once again,

visiting the wonderful world of desperate theologizing.

And Carl, I believe that you found something that truly exemplifies, desperate

theologizing.

Yes, it actually came to me as a word of knowledge.

I was a fast asleep last night. Suddenly, you know, we're being worried during the day. What are we

going to do for desperate theologizing? The world seemed to become rather sane over the last

couple of weeks. I woke up at 3 a.m. in the morning and there was a voice inside my head saying,

when you get up tomorrow morning you need to

Google Prince theology yes so I type Prince and theology and it took me to a website Presbyterian

reflections on the death of Prince two of my favorite things. Presbyterianism and Prince

in one sentence. It's written by a man called Richard Lindsay. Richard Lindsay, I'll give you

a little bit of his background. It says on his bio that he's co-editor of pop theology.com.

Recently competed his PhD in art and religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Presumably he's co-editor of poptheology.com, recently competed his PhD in art and religion at the

Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, presumably he's therefore unemployable,

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