In this issue of Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit, Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt discuss the importance of the church fathers to modern Christianity. How can men who lived thousands of years ago speak to today's issues with any relevance? Learn more about some of the important fathers of our faith from Carl and Todd... Winners of Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church.C. Turer - Evansville, IND. Box - Monroe, GAJ. Anderson - Jupiter, FLL. O'Neil - Linville, VAJ. Brick - Bellevue, NE Heard on Bully Pulpit: Church FathersAugustine of Hippo by Simonetta Carr Athanasius by Simonetta Carr A Public Faith: From Constantine to the Medieval World AD 312-600 by Ivor Davidson The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Wilken Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church by Michael Haykin Confessions by Augustine City of God by Augustine