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- Mary Definitely Knew
- When The World Calls Them Otherwise
- Three Thoughts on Denunciations and Deconversions
- A Litany for the DMV
- When People Tell Me It’s Hard to Find a Church
- My Honest Recommendation
- When A Pastor Flushes a Congregation’s Religion Pills
- The Only Places on the Streets That Understand
- A Love Much Greater Than Evolution Requires
- As Happy As My Childhood Allows Me To Be
- Sobriety Broke Me to Pour Me Out
- Are You Burned Out?
- Everything New Is Moralism Again – Jacob Smith
- Be Your Worst Self – Stephanie Phillips
- The Survival and the End of the Preacher – Adam Morton
- God in the Midst of Our Secrets – Sarah Condon
- How Dare You Judge Me! – Paul Walker
- Jesus is Felicity Huffman – RJ Heijmen
- The Alien Word – Jason Micheli
- One Track Mind – Ryan Alvey
- Creedal Faith in an Age of Seculosity – David Zahl
- What The Hell Is Going On?: The Strangest Things about Stranger Things – Leigh Hickman
- When God Makes All Things Nude – Charlotte Getz
- The Unforgivables: Is There Hope Even For Those Consigned to a Secular Hell? – Jeff Mallinson
- God Isn’t Mad at You (I’m Not Blowing Smoke) – Steve Brown
The Mockingcast Episode 171: “Everybody Loves Dolly” in which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk generational warfare (“OK boomer”), Sunday morning racial reconciliation, refugee puppetry, and America’s favorite Dolly. Also, Sarah gets bleeped for the first time — but probably not the last. Throughout it all, hope abounds.- Same Old Song “Advent 1 (A): Here We Go Again” in which Jacob and Aaron discuss the readings for the first Sunday of Advent, which are Isaiah 2:1-5, Romans 13:11-14, and Matthew 24:36-44.
- PZ’s Podcast Episode 288: GPF. Which concerns the arrival of gratitude and peace at the end of life — or, better, way before the end of life — and the birth of faith for one’s safe “arrival” after death.
Little Women and the Truth We’re Too Scared to Say
This response to the hit film comes to us from Grace Leuenberger. Back in August, the first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women was released to the world wide web. I watched it approximately fifteen times, enraptured by the casting, the energy, the excitement surrounding a new version of a movie I loved growing up. […]
Mockingbird Update: What’s in Store for 2020 and How You Can Help
With 2020 just a breath away, it’s time for our annual update on all things Mockingbird! The headlines may be filled with stories of a “church-pocalypse” but I couldn’t imagine a better time to be talking about the unflagging grace of God for non-theoretical sinners like you and me. And what a year we’ve had […]
Pot Kettle Black: Keeping the Mocking-Score in 2019
For those looking to while away the yuletide coma, here’s a rundown of what content got traction in 2019. It is limited to stuff that was posted in 2019, rather than viewed then (if we were including previous years’ output, for example, this post would’ve come in third). Enjoy!
Most Popular Posts Published in the Past 12 Months
Honorable Mentions: Don’t Ruin Brunch, The Failure to Find a Soulmate, When a Dragon Tried to Eat Jesus, What I Really Want For Dinner Is Not To Make a Decision, We All Get to Go Home with Beth Moore, The Peak Moments of Any Marriage, Things We Cannot Say, Stop Blaming the Devil, Raised by Narcissists
Three Most Popular Talkingbird Episodes
Most Popular Posts on Facebook (Not Mentioned Above): This one and then, this one
Most Popular Instagram: This one and then, this one.
Most Downloaded Sermons
Most Watched Conference Talks
10 Best TV Shows of 2019, I’m Assuming
The complete list, from Brian McMillen: Each year, as our society traverses deeper and deeper into the Golden Era of Television, it becomes increasingly important to acknowledge this form of entertainment’s substantial contributions to the zeitgeist. In the year 2019, we saw an abundance of brilliant shows created and conveniently distributed across the streaming platforms […]
Hopelessly Devoted: Romans Chapter Three Verses Nine Through Twelve
This one comes to us from Paul Walker’s “Almost Daily Devotional”: The Third Sunday of Advent has been called “Stirrup Sunday” after the collect’s plea for God to “stir up” his power on our behalf. There’s nothing like a little churchy witticism to get you going on a Monday in mid December. Ecclesial wit aside, the […]
Shooting Blanks: Baby-Making in an Age of Anxiety – Ben Maddison
From our Spring conference in NYC, the following video features Mockingbird contributor Ben Maddison, in a talk about fatherhood and fertility in the 21st century. For more, see his previous work The Weight of Masculinity and Mary Definitely Knew.
Shooting Blanks: Baby-Making in an Age of Anxiety – Ben Maddison from Mockingbird on Vimeo.
Cast Away the Works of Darkness
A little sample from our latest publication, Faith Once Delivered, a collection of sermons from longtime contributor Paul N. Walker. This sermon was originally delivered at Christ Church in Charlottesville, November 28, 2010, for the First Sunday of Advent. William Golding’s 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies, remains a piercing and, I believe, accurate judgment […]
Happy Thanksgiving: Store Discounts, New Podcasts, and Mailing List
Happy Thanksgiving one and all! We’ll be taking a few days off to celebrate with our families, so no new content til this coming Monday. But rest assured, we’re not leaving you hanging:
1. In conjunction with a certain upcoming Friday, we’re running a big sale on our Store! 25% off all Robert Capon titles, Churchy, Unmapped, Mockingbird at the Movies, and Mbird T-shirts & bags.
2. Three brand new podcast episodes for you to listen to:
Best way to listen to all of our podcasts, btw, (if you have an OSX device) is via The Mockingapp! Available for free on the Apple App Store.
3. We’ll be sending out our big end-of-the-year newsletter and appeal next week. To get a copy, simply sign up for our Mailing List. Just be sure to submit your full postal address. We can’t do this without you!
4. Click here to peruse our Thanksgiving archives. Lots of gold in them hills.
What We’re Watching and Listening to, November Edition: The Crown Season 3 (and a Couple Other Things)
This contains spoilers from Season 3 of Netflix’s The Crown. Carrie Willard Netflix released Season 3 of The Crown this past week, and there is simply too much to unpack all at once. I’ve been enthralled since Season 1, and again in Season 2. This third season is so very good, and so very rich in […]
PZ’s Podcast: Achilles Heel; They Came from Beyond Space; Listen to the Music; Sine Qua Non; and Julie, Do You Love Me
Episode 283: Achilles Heel It seems that human nature, or rather, one’s understanding of human nature, is the Achilles Heel of theology — and philosophy, too — throughout the “Spin-Me-Round” (Dead or Alive, 1985) of cyclical human history and cyclical failed answers to the problem of being human. If you have a high doctrine of […]
Devotion # 4 – Larry Parlsey (Colossians 1:21-23)
The next video from our gathering in NYC features conference chaplain Larry Parsley. Here Larry addresses shame and the curation of blemishes — and from where we draw our ultimate hope:
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. (Colossians 1:21-23 NIV)
On Comic Books: Our Commonly Felt Need and the Search for Hope – Kyle Tomlin
Right on time for the new Watchmen series, this video from our recent conference in NYC features commentary on the graphic novel, among other classics. Guided by “God and Comics” co-host Kyle Tomlin, we consider stories of superheroes and what they tell us about who we are, who we think we are, and what we are ultimately longing for. Characters include Superman, Billy Batson, Batman, the Joker, Doctor Manhattan, and others.
On Comic Books: Our Commonly Felt Need and the Search for Hope – Kyle Tomlin
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