We’ve never done this before, but in an effort to stoke anticipation for our upcoming conference, we thought we’d announce the initial slate of next year’s breakouts:
- Luther Goes Helium? Law and Gospel in the Chipmunks’ Trilogy
- Grace-Based Tiger Parenting
- The Death of Death: Dying to be Dead (When You’re Not Alive)
- Roundhouse Kicks and Nervous Ticks: ‘The Wilberforce Option’ and Patrick Swayze’s Road House
- Leggo My Legos: Exploring the Ministry of Toys in the 21st Century
- AA Envy: Bottoming Out on Life Without a Chemical Dependency
- Sanctifying Sleep: 10 Steps to Glorifying God in Your Non-Waking Hours
- How Low Can You Go? Bathroom Church 101
- Songs You’ve Never Heard With An Extremely Loose Relation to Christianity
- Wright Was Right: Embracing the New Perspective on Paul (Once Again, For the First Time)
- The Fourth Use of the Law: Mimetic Desire and Sacramental Yearning in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
- Liturgical Leaping: A Gospel-Infused Approach to the Spirituality of Jumping in Congregational Worship
Say a prayer, but we’re also hoping to have our new publication ready by that point, The Anxious White Christian’s Guide to Rationalizing Culture.
Any other ideas for us?
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“You are Not the Father”: Maury Povich and the difficulty of the doctrine of double predestination. Or
The Sweet Chin music of the Gospel: the WWE, Sean Micheals and wrestling with our vocation.
“YOU LOSE – Haw Haw Haw!” Grace in Chick Tracts
What’s worse is, I’d really LOVE to hear most of these talks.
#peakMockingbird lol
“Hey, that’s mine!”: Learning grace from your toddler.
“Going with the Flow”: A Q&A with Lorne Michaels and Elvis Costello
David Browder! The man who introduced to me On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 by Gerhard Forde. I need to buy that on Amazon (represent!) and read it again, use it as a reference, memorize it, etc. The righteousness of Christ was my hope for salvation when I read that book but something like scales fell from my eyes after completion and I understood myself to have been freely given Christ’s righteousness. Like Paul, I finally stopped persecuting the church and began to love her as the gift she is. My prayer for righteousness (and everyone else’s) transformed into the main cry of “Lord have mercy on a sinner like me!” Thanks again David Browder! I keep hoping your family will visit our church.
Elvis Costello is why I have my name. Wouldn’t it be great if he came to hang out at Mockingbird! Send the invites. Is it shameful I am not familiar with Lorne Michaels?
David Zahl and company! I am so thankful for Mockingbird. Thank you for the 2017 outlook list for next year’s sarcasmic conference. A few topics caught my eye. Especially “Wright Was Right: Embracing the New Perspective on Paul (Once Again, For the First Time)”. I was considerate and concerned with this topic most of the day yesterday…until I responsibly reevaluated your post to discover what are obvious, farcical breakout sessions. It took me longer than I am proud to admit right now. I frequently pay too little attention. Hermeneutical lesson one – Context is King. Please laugh at my foolishness and please forgive my long and possibly irrelevant (to most) post.