Give and Take

By Scott JonesSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality Arts

Give and Take episodes

March 30, 2017 Episode 1: Welcome to Give and Take!
Give and Take is where Scott Jones interviews artists, activists, authors and a wide array of other thought leaders that help make our world the interesting place it is.
2 min
January 20, 2017 The Stories We Tell Ourselves
This week our guest is Paul Walker. Paul is the Rector at Christ Episcopal Church, where Mockingbird is headquartered. He’s also a longtime friend of Mockingbird and spoke at the first Mockingbird conference in New York City. After our conversation with Paul the usual suspects talk about the death of the American dream, frames of mind and the stories we tell ourselves.
1 hr 12 min
January 13, 2017 Shameless

Our guest this week is Jennifer Underwood. Jennifer is a lawyer, wife and mother of 3. She blogs at the Houston Moms Blog. Then the roundtable talks about profanity and honest, shame, forgiveness and Silence.
1 hr 3 min
January 06, 2017 Good Riddance
Dr. Todd Brewer, New Testament Professor at General Theological Seminary, comes on the podcast to talk about Mockingbird’s best theology book list of 2016. Then the roundtable talks about, among other things, Good Riddance Day.
50 min
December 23, 2016 Star of Wonder, Star of Night

Our guest on our Christmas episode is Rev. Mandy Smith. She has recently written about dealing with mixed emotions during the holidays. She also created an advent art exercise to help cultivate child-likeness. Then David, Sarah and Scott talks business, Christmas gifts and how to grow old.
58 min
December 16, 2016 Oh What A Feeling

This week’s guest is Simeon Zahl. Simeon is a theologian who teaches at the University of Nottingham. His work focuses on the role of emotion and feeling in the spiritual life. He’s also David Zahl’s brother. Then David, Sarah and Scott talk about judgyness, the significance of place and reflect on the legacy of Henri Nouwen.
1 hr 28 min
December 15, 2016 Special Episode: The Holiday Survival Guide

In this special episode of the Mockingcast Scott Jones is joined by Duo Dickinson, the renowned architect and episcopalian. They talk about what you do when your holiday is not so happy.
32 min
December 09, 2016 By Faith And Not By Sight

Our guest this week is Benson Shelton, Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Culpeper, Virginia. Then the roundtable talks empathy, reality myths and Charlie Brown.
56 min
December 02, 2016 Silence

This week’s guest is Makoto Fujimura, author most recently of Silence And Beauty: Hidden Faith Born Of Suffering. His book is a personal engagement with the great Shusaku Endo novel Silence, adapted recently to film by Martin Scorsese. Following the interview our roundtable discusses comprehensive credit ratings, atheism, and the forthcoming Scorsese film.
1 hr 4 min
November 25, 2016 Happy Thanksgiving!

Please enjoy this special Thanksgiving holiday episode of the podcast. Sarah and I with the help of some material from Evolving Out Loud reflect on what our Thanksgiving dinner tables tell us about ourselves.
17 min

About Give and Take

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Someone once observed that if Howard Stern and Krista Tippett had a love child, it would be Scott Jones. Scott liked that. At "Give and Take,” Scott Jones talks with artists, authors, theologians, and…