The Mockingcast Mockingbird

In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk weight loss drugs, hypochondria, and the hound of heaven. Also, Sarah attends a pool party while Dave fesses up to his inner Christian Scientist.



Click here to listen to the recordings of our recent NYC Conference.
Click here to watch Jerry Seinfeld's commencement address at Duke.
Click here to read "So Was Body Positivity a Big Lie?" by Samhita Mukhopadhyay in The Cut.
Click here to read Meghan O'Rourke's "Hypochondria Never Dies" in The Atlantic.
Click here to read "Found By the Hound of Heaven" by Lindsay Holifield on Mbird.

Recorded live in front of the audience at Mockingbird's annual conference in NYC, RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk quarter-life crises, parental control, dating types, and the relief of not being God. Also, Dave and RJ finally figure out who won.



Click here to read The New Quarter-Life Crisis by Maggie Mertens in The Atlantic.
Click here to Kathryn Jezer-Morton's piece on "Parenting Through Control Issues" for The Cut.
Click here to read The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids by Arthur Brooks.
Click here to read Lillian Fishman's advice column for The Point, asking Can We Ever Trust Ourselves?
Click here to read Seven Words That Sum Up the Entire Bible by Anthony Robinson on Mbird.

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

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 info@mbird.com 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.

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)!

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