The Mockingcast

Opening talk at our 2017 Conference in NYC from The Rev. Aaron Zimmerman. Delivered April 27th, 2017 at St George's Episcopal Church. Subtitle: "The Secret of Mockingbird's Success".

<p>Our guest this week is Jeffrey Hanson, author of &quot;Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith: The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in &#39;Fear and Trembling&#39;&quot;. Then the roundtable talks Yik Yak, the breeding grounds of resentment and more Melissa Febos.</p><p>Special Guest: Jeffrey Hanson.</p>

<p>Our guest this week is Tony Jones. Tony is a theologian, author and the trade editor at Fortress Press. He&#39;s also a consultant on Hulu&#39;s popular serial drama &quot;The Path&quot;. Then the roundtable talks happiness, headwinds and the Zacchaeus option. </p><p>Special Guest: Tony Jones.</p>

<p>Our guest this week is Emily Esfani Smith. She&#39;s the author of The Power Of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters. Then the roundtable talks tribalism, storytelling and failure.</p><p>Special Guest: Emily Esfahani Smith.</p>

<p>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. His wife Tasha does more or less the same thing, but competently. Together they parent a very wide toddler. Adam is inordinately proud of his standing as a native Minnesotan, and supports the state’s athletic teams in true Lutheran fashion, seeing all things through suffering and the cross. For fun he shouts expletives at uncomprehending electronic devices, paints models for games he only sometimes gets around to, and tries to sleep through whatever the cats are doing.</p> 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. Special Guest: Adam Morton.

<p>This week&#39;s guest is Melissa Febos. She&#39;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. </p><p>Special Guest: Melissa Febos.</p>

<p>Our guest this week is Jason Micheli. Jason is a United Methodist pastor. He&#39;s the author of Cancer Is Funny: Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo. He&#39;s the co-host of the Crackers and Grape Juice podcast. Then roundtable talks loved, religion and death. </p><p>Special Guest: Jason Micheli.</p>

<p>This week our guest is Stephanie Butnick, co-host of Tablet Magazine&#39;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. </p><p>Special Guest: Stephanie Butnick.</p>

<p>In this special episode of The Mockingcast we give a preview of some of the content of Mockingbird&#39;s quarterly print magazine. Several contributors are featured including Dr. Helen Zoe Veit. She&#39;s the author of Modern Food, Moral Food. </p><p>Special Guest: Helen Zoe Veit.</p>

<p>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.</p><p>Special Guest: Nadia Bolz-Weber.</p>