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April 20, 2024Episode 258: The Greatest Bible Study of All Time
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk furniture flipping, rental people, lunar eclipses, and Rwandan redemption. Also, RJ drops some serious science.
Click here for more details about next week's Mbird Conference in NYC
Click here to read the excerpt from Amanda Montell's new book The Age of Overthinking in Marie Claire
Click here to receive Sarah Hinlicky Wilson's newsletter Theology and A Recipe, the most recent installment of which is Bad Pie
Click here to read Todd Brewer's piece Looking for Enchantment on Mbird
Click here to read Denise Uwimana's "How Far Does Forgiveness Reach?" in Plough
1 hr 5 min
March 25, 2024Episode 257: Screwing Up Is a Good Start
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk elephant mudslides, liquid death, Alzheimers, and atonement. It's an instant classic!
Click here to register for the NYC Conference (April 25-27). To reserve a spot for the James Tissot exhibit, email [email protected] ASAP.
Click here to read Sallie Tisdale's piece in The Atlantic, "Do Animals Have Fun?"
Click here to read Jacob Stern's article on how Of Course America Fell for Liquid Death.
Click here to read The Case Against the Instant Classic by Sam Bush on Mbird.
Click here to read the (first three quarters of) of the Garrison Keillor's blog entry that Sarah quotes.
Click here to read Jen Pollock Michel's Mbird essay "The Long Lent of Alzheimers."
Click here to read "God's Forgiveness Is Costly" by Emil Brunner on Plough.
1 hr 14 min
March 11, 2024Episode 256: God Is Not a Puzzle to Be Solved
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk interpersonal dislikes, luxury beliefs, and Roman revenge. Also, polyamory.
Click here to read the Ask Polly newsletter, "It's Not a Moral Failure to Dislike Someone" by Heather Havrilesky
Click here to read Rob Henderson's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal "Luxury Beliefs That Only the Privileged Can Afford."
Click here to Ash French's review of The Book of Clarence in Salon.
Click here to read Meaghan Ritchey's interview with James K.A. Smith on Mockingbird.
Click here to order your copy of the Mystery Issue of our magazine (where you can read the sermon Dave references)!
57 min
February 26, 2024Episode 255: Mortal Movie Stars and Awesome Astronauts
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk rainy days, mean girls, and the strange blessing of Parkinson's. Also, the boys learn an important lesson about temperature.
Click here to order a copy of The Mystery Issue of The Mockingbird Magazine. And here for more details about our upcoming NYC Conference (4/25-27).
Click here to read about Rod Rosenbladt and the Gospel for Those Broken by the Church
Click here to read Gilad Edelman's piece on The Best Small-Talk Topic in the Atlantic
Click here to read Jessica Bennett's piece on Mean Girls in the NY Times
Click here to read This Enchanted Universe by Ben Self
Click here to read Jordan Griesbeck's review of the Michael J Fox documentary, Still
1 hr 11 min
February 05, 2024Episode 254: Fellowship of the Cringe
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk core memories, superegos, uncool churchgoers, and revenge vampires. Also, Dave sights a celebrity while Sarah dials up some French-Canadian cartoons. Oh, and the gang flips out over Fargo!
Click here for more information, or to pre-register for our NYC Conference (4/25-27).
Click here to read Kathryn Jezer-Morton's newsletter on "Why Are Parents So Fixated on Core Memories?"
Click here to read Michael Roth's review of Mark Edmundson's book in The Washington Post, "What Would Freud Say About Our Online Lives?"
Click here to read Russell Moore's piece on "Grace in the Age of Guilt" in Christianity Today.
Click here to read Mary Harrington's newsletter, "You Need to Be Cringemaxxing."
Click here to read Sarah's Mbird post on Revenge Vampires.
1 hr 7 min
January 12, 2024Episode 253: The Ministry of Fun
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk Tetris, youth groups, paganism, and magi interlopers. Also, Dave plays some bingo while RJ questions the wisdom of the buddymoon.
Click here to read Angela Watercutter's piece on Why Everyone Is Obsessed With the Kid Who Beat Tetris in Wired.
Click here to read Karen Heller's essay, "Fun Is Dead" in the Washington Post.
Click here to read "The Return of the Pagans" by David Wolpe in The Atlantic.
Click here to read Derek Sweatman's reflection on "Why the Magi Matter" on Mbird.
1 hr 3 min
December 18, 2023Episode 252: A Merry Little Rizzmas
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk top words, millennial motherhoods, cancerous insights, and sad Christmases. Everyone also gives a few recs from the year gone by.
Click here to read about Mirieam-Webster's word of the year. Click here to read about Oxford's.
Click here to read Jordan Griesbeck's post on Mbird, "Thou Shalt Have a Thing."
Click here to read Rachel Cohen's essay for Vox, “How Millennials Learned to Dread Motherhood.”
Click here to read Josh Jeter's interview with Christian Wiman on Christianity Today.
Click here to read Sarah's article, "Put the Sad Back in Christmas."
The closing song is "Medium Christmas" by Caroline Fowler and is included with permission.
1 hr 16 min
December 04, 2023Episode 251: The Horror and the Majesty
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk passive aggression, teenage misery, jazz flute comebacks, and wartime prayers. Also, Sarah celebrates Wally Moon day while Dave declares the worst of the meats.
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Click here to read Josh Cohen's essay on Passive Aggression in 1843 Magazine.
Click here to read Zadie Smith's piece, The Fall of My Teen-Age Self in The New Yorker.
Click here to read Blake Nail's Mbird article on "André 3000’s Flute in the Midst of Loudness".
Click here to read the interview with Phil Klay in the NY Times Magazine, "Finding a Moral Center in this Era of War."
1 hr 15 min
November 20, 2023Episode 250: The Gang Goes Goth
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk eldest daughters, crypto parents, and a pair of awe-inspiring conversions. Also, Dave binges some Curb while Sarah discloses the worst thing someone said to her in the early days of grief.
Click here to read Sarah Sloat's piece on The Plight of the Eldest Daughter in The Atlantic.
Click here to read Katie Roiphe's WSJ essay on "Why Are We So Obsessed with Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents?"
Click here to listen to Simeon Zahl's talk from Minneapolis, "The World Is a Hospital".
Click here to read the review of Dachner Keltner's book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform You Life in The Guardian.
Click here to read about Kat von D's conversion. And click here to watch the video of her baptism.
Click here to read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's column, "Why I Am Now a Christian" on UnHerd.
1 hr 20 min
November 04, 2023Episode 249: Justin Timberlake Is Dead to Me
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk canine anxiety, celebrity memoirs, and dispensaries (of grace). Also, Sarah prays for high waistlines while RJ uncovers a stroller conspiracy.
Click here to read Rose Horowich's "Too Many People Own Dogs" in The Atlantic.
Click here to read Patti Davis's column in the NY Times, "Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction."
Click here to order a copy of John Z's Grace in Addiction, published by Mockingbird.
Click here to read Spencer Kornhaber's review of Britney Spears's new memoir.
Click here to read Corinne Purtill's profile of Robert Sapolsky in The LA Times.
Click here to read Matthew Sitman's essay on Muddling Through that he references in the Know Your Enemy clip (used with permission).
1 hr 8 min

About The Mockingcast

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The Mockingcast is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by RJ Heijmen, Sarah Condon and David Zahl, and brought to you by Mockingbird Ministries, an organization which seeks to connect the Christian faith with…