In two short days (4/18-20), Mockingbird is hosting its Sixth Annual Conference in New York City! The event has come together beautifully, and the full schedule is below (click on any of the talk titles for more information). Although pre-registration is now closed, last minute walk-ins are still more than welcome. To reserve a spot, email us at info@mbird.com.

Thursday April 18th

4:30pm Registration Opens
6:30pm One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World – Tullian Tchividjian
7:30pm Dinner

Friday April 19th

8:15am Coffee and Registration
9:00am Morning Mini-Talks (20 minutes each)

• What Does Salvation Feel Like? Protestantism and the Problem of Emotion – Simeon Zahl
• Communicating Grace Through Story – Sally Lloyd-Jones*
• Crunch Time: What We Can Learn From Athletes About Dealing with Stress – Nick Lannon
• Joint Q&A

10:45am Morning Breakouts

• T.S. Eliot’s Parables of Self-Righteousness and Resurrection – Todd Brewer
• Ministering to Winners: The Poor, Captive, Blind, Oppressed (and Other People Like You and Me) – Jacob Smith
• Walter White vs. Raylan Givens: The Two Hats of American Law – Ethan Richardson

12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Afternoon Mini-Talks

• Kierkegaard, Existentialism, and Young Adult Anxiety – William McDavid
• Big Foot Called My Unicorn an Antinomian: The Double Bind of the Law – Jady Koch
• It Came From the (Church) Basement: Addiction, Grace and Alcoholics Anonymous – John Zahl
• Joint Q&A

2:30pm Afternoon Breakouts

• Baby, You Can Drive My Karr: Conversion & the Poetry of Mary Karr – Brad Davis
• Death and Life in the Artist’s Studio – Dan Siedell
• The Romance of Grace – Jim McNeely
• Thou Art My Beloved Child: Parenthood for Prodigals – Matthew Schneider

7:00pm The Unlikely Believer: How a Smart-Assed Intellectual Crossed the Secular/Religious Divide – Mary Karr
7:40pm Q&A with Mary
8:00pm Dinner

Saturday April 20th

8:15am Coffee
9:00am Grace for Today: The End of To-Do List Christianity – Tullian Tchividjian
10:00am I’ve Just Gotta Get A Message To Me – David Zahl
10:45am Q&A with Tullian and others
11:30am Closing Remarks and Service
12:30pm Conference Ends

*Sally’s talk will not be taped or recorded.

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