The Mockingcast

David Zahl

David Zahl has hosted 270 episodes.

David Zahl is the founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor-in-chief of the Mockingbird website, and co-host of both The Mockingcast and The Brothers Zahl podcasts. Zahl is the author of Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What To Do About It and Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself). His latest book, The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World appeared in April 2025 from Brazos Press. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Guardian, among other venues. He and his family live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also serves on the staff of Christ Episcopal Church.

Even after all these years, he’s still mourning the end of Calvin and Hobbes (and hoping that Morrissey and Marr will bury the hatchet). His favorite theologian is probably a cross between Johnny Cash, Flannery O’Connor and his brother Simeon.

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Sarah Condon

Sarah Condon has hosted 252 episodes.

Sarah Condon is an assistant editor of the Mockingbird website, author of Churchy, and co-host of The Mockingcast. She also serves on the staff of St George's Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN. She went to Yale for Divinity School. And she only drinks organic milk. If you’re starting to feel crappy about your life reading this, please keep in mind that Sarah is deeply neurotic, originally from a state with the highest teen pregnancy rate (I see you, Mississippi), and is Mockingbird’s in-house expert for the Housewives Franchise. She is astonished that God loves and forgives even her. And she can’t stop writing about it.

RJ Heijmen

RJ Heijmen has hosted 184 episodes.

R-J Heijmen is the Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach, FL. Prior to arriving in West Palm Beach, R-J served in Houston, Texas for 8 years, and before that, New York City for 10 years. R-J is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!) and Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry. He has been married to his amazing wife Jaime since 1999 and they have three boys: Jackson, Spencer and Marshall.