Why Believe?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Todd are, for the first time in quite a while, recording their podcast face-to-face within the Alliance compound. Careful to remain socially distanced—not because of COVID, but to prevent any regrettable chance of human contact whatsoever—the pair welcomes Dr. Neil Shenvi to the mix. He’s a former Yale and Duke University researcher turned homeschooling father with a passion for Christian apologetics. Of course, every new generation brings with it a fresh set of challenges for the apologist. The “new atheist” may find Christianity to be, for example, oppressive of women or impossibly judgmental. Is the Bible true, or even morally good? Our guest engages with the best contemporary arguments against the faith and provides a clear and compelling case to embrace Christ and Christianity. Congrats to our winners of a copy of Shenvi’s Why Believe? A Reasoned Approach to Christianity: *Annette K. of Speculator, NY *Brant K. from Sygnet, OH *Tyler H. of Colorado Springs, CO

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0:00.0	The following is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books online at heritagebooks.org.
0:05.8	Learn more at the conclusion of today's podcast. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:33.8	Mortification of Spin is a podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:38.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:53.0	You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:55.8	It's so good to have you with us today.
0:58.0	My name is Todd Pruitt.
0:59.2	I'm pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and I'm joined, as always, by Carl Truman, who is professor at Grove City College.
1:07.9	And Carl, it's good to see you.
1:09.2	We're actually recording in person today. So,
1:12.1	um, you know, I, I can not only see you, but, but if I, if I so desired, I could reach out
1:18.3	and touch you, which I won't do. Yes, please don't. I will not. I absolutely will not. And I,
1:24.5	and I, and I want to assure everybody who's listening that Carl and I from from if memory serves
1:30.6	have never hugged each other, not even a side hug. I think unless my memory blotted it out because
1:37.4	it was so traumatic. I think that is a correct. But but this is but this is what I like. So your
1:42.4	your wife who is a far superior being than you are, you know, I always get a hug from Katrina.
1:49.3	And, and, but, but one of the great things is that the times over the years when my wife has been in the same room with us, she, she will hug you.
1:59.1	And, um, just watching your entire awkward, just all of the awkward that's in you
2:06.9	start to spill out in these moments of my wife all extroverted and hugging you.
2:12.5	It's brilliant.
2:13.3	It's why I love lockdown.
2:15.1	A, I didn't have to meet people. B, when I't have to, I didn't have to meet people.
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