The Mockingcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
257 episodes of The Mockingcast since the first episode, which aired on October 30th, 2015.
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Episode 81: Outrage, Escape and Immortality
March 3rd, 2017 | 1 hr 12 mins
Our guest this week is Adam Morton. Having successfully avoided the pitfalls of money and social standing, sometime Mockingbird contributor Adam Morton serves as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church and associate pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, both in Lancaster, PA. After the conversation with Adam, David Zahl and Scott Jones are joined by Mandy Smith to talk about outrage, the church escaping the world and the denial of death.
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Episode 80: Abandon Me...In Texas
February 24th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
This week's guest is Melissa Febos. She's the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010) and the forthcoming essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017). Then the roundtable comes to you live from Texas at the mbirdtyler.com conference.
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Episode 79: Love, Religion & Death
February 17th, 2017 | 1 hr 6 mins
Our guest this week is Jason Micheli. Jason is a United Methodist pastor. He's the author of Cancer Is Funny: Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo. He's the co-host of the Crackers and Grape Juice podcast. Then roundtable talks loved, religion and death.
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Episode 78: Third Time's A Charm!
February 10th, 2017 | 1 hr 11 mins
This week our guest is Stephanie Butnick, co-host of Tablet Magazine's popular podcast Unorthodox. We have now had all three co-hosts as guests. We saved the best for last! Then the roundtable talks eating your way to immortality, atheist conversion studies and concludes with a story of what love is all about.
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Episode 77: The Food & Drink Magazine Edition
February 9th, 2017 | 1 hr 19 mins
In this special episode of The Mockingcast we give a preview of some of the content of Mockingbird's quarterly print magazine. Several contributors are featured including Dr. Helen Zoe Veit. She's the author of Modern Food, Moral Food.
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Episode 76: Pastrix
February 3rd, 2017 | 1 hr 15 mins
Our guest this week is Nadia Bolz-Weber. She is a pastor, author, speaker, fitness jedi and poster child for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Then the roundtable tackles fat shaming, date hating, food solidarity and the definition of a sermon.
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Episode 75: A Path Revealed
January 27th, 2017 | 56 mins 7 secs
Our guest this week is Carlen Maddux, author of A Path Revealed: How Hope, Love And Joy Found Us In A Deep Maze Called Alzheimer's. Then the roundtable talks "people analytics", living in bubbles and the foolish culture of the carnival.
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Episode 74: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
January 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 11 mins
This week our guest is Paul Walker. Paul is the Rector at Christ Episcopal Church, where Mockingbird is headquartered. He’s also a longtime friend of Mockingbird and spoke at the first Mockingbird conference in New York City. After our conversation with Paul the usual suspects talk about the death of the American dream, frames of mind and the stories we tell ourselves.
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Episode 73: Shameless
January 13th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
Our guest this week is Jennifer Underwood. Jennifer is a lawyer, wife and mother of 3. She blogs at the Houston Moms Blog. Then the roundtable talks about profanity and honest, shame, forgiveness and Silence.
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Episode 72: Good Riddance
January 6th, 2017 | 49 mins 18 secs
Dr. Todd Brewer, New Testament Professor at General Theological Seminary, comes on the podcast to talk about Mockingbird’s best theology book list of 2016. Then the roundtable talks about, among other things, Good Riddance Day.
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Episode 71: Star of Wonder, Star of Night
December 23rd, 2016 | 57 mins 49 secs
Our guest on our Christmas episode is Rev. Mandy Smith. She has recently written about dealing with mixed emotions during the holidays. She also created an advent art exercise to help cultivate child-likeness.
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Episode 70: Oh What A Feeling
December 16th, 2016 | 1 hr 27 mins
This week’s guest is Simeon Zahl. Simeon is a theologian who teaches at the University of Nottingham. His work focuses on the role of emotion and feeling in the spiritual life. He’s also David Zahl’s brother. Then David, Sarah and Scott talk about judgyness, the significance of place and reflect on the legacy of Henri Nouwen.
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Episode 69: Special Episode: The Holiday Survival Guide
December 15th, 2016 | 31 mins 52 secs
In this special episode of the Mockingcast Scott Jones is joined by Duo Dickinson, the renowned architect and episcopalian. They talk about what you do when your holiday is not so happy.
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Episode 68: By Faith And Not By Sight
December 9th, 2016 | 55 mins 27 secs
Our guest this week is Benson Shelton, Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Culpeper, Virginia. Then the roundtable talks empathy, reality myths and Charlie Brown.
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Episode 67: Silence
December 2nd, 2016 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week’s guest is Makoto Fujimura, author most recently of Silence And Beauty: Hidden Faith Born Of Suffering. His book is a personal engagement with the great Shusaku Endo novel Silence, adapted recently to film by Martin Scorsese. Following the interview our roundtable discusses comprehensive credit ratings, atheism, and the forthcoming Scorsese film.
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Episode 66: Happy Thanksgiving!
November 24th, 2016 | 16 mins 40 secs
Please enjoy this special Thanksgiving holiday episode of the podcast. Sarah and Scott with the help of some material from Evolving Out Loud reflect on what our Thanksgiving dinner tables tell us about ourselves.