Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The three amigos gather for Carl’s send-off, as he’s about to move west. Before Carl departs, Aimee offers some helpful tips on how to make new friends. In fact, she has recently written Why Can’t We Be Friends? Aimee’s latest opus addresses friendship between the sexes from a biblical worldview.The intrepid trio discusses the Pence Rule, biblical anthropology, sibling relationships in light of eternity, the exercise of discernment, and more. It’s the When Harry Met Sally dilemma: Can men and women really be friends?Show NotesHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale CarnegieYou can find Aimee’s book on sale at Reformed Resources. But if you want the opportunity to win a free copy, sign up and you might just get one! The free copies are a courtesy of P&R Publishing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a 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.
0:36.9	Music Well, you are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:46.2	My name is Todd Pruitt, and with me, as always, are my friends and co-hosts, Carl Truman and Amy Bird.
0:52.7	Now, you already know that our friend Carl Truman here has been in the midst of preparing for a transition to Grove City College.
1:01.7	The beautiful Grove City College, wonderful institution.
1:04.4	Carl, of course, we know is a renowned scholar who will be there.
1:07.4	And we're all anticipating that this is going to be a really good fit as well, Carl. So congratulations on that. But before you go, Amy has uncovered some, I think, very
1:15.8	helpful tips for you in your transition as you go to a new place, some things to help you
1:21.7	make some friends. Amy, what did you find? Yeah. So we're talking about friendship today. So I thought
1:25.6	about our friend Carl and how when he moves, he's going to be making new friends.
1:30.3	We hope.
1:31.3	We hope that he can make new friends.
1:33.1	We hope that he can make new friends.
1:34.1	Right.
1:34.6	But we hope that he'll make some friends too.
1:36.3	So who better to go to to help our friend Carl than Dale Carnegie, how to make friends and influence people?
1:43.1	So I just had a couple of tips for you, Carl,
1:45.0	and I think this will help you, especially with your British heritage and the difficulty that
1:49.7	you may have, making friends. So here's one principle that you need to know. Don't criticize, condemn,
1:56.7	or complain. I never do that. I know. That comes naturally to me.
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