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In the Elector’s School
This article is published in the Sickness & Health issue of The Mockingbird magazine, set to hit mailboxes next week. There is nothing remarkable about being a cancer patient: more North Americans...
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Why Not Quit Your Job?
A few months ago, I attended a weekend-long spiritual retreat for men. One of the ground rules was a strict prohibition on any discussion of work, occupation, career, etc. Talking about myself at...
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Everything Everywhere: In Which I Encounter My Multiverse Selves
Easter weekend went down as expected. A little coloring of slightly soft-boiled eggs. A variety of egg bakes and cheesy hash browns at the Easter breakfast. “Jesus Christ Is Ris’n Today” and “Thine Is...
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What’s Mine Is Yours Already
This interview was conducted by Todd Brewer and appears in a slightly longer form in the Money Issue of The Mockingbird magazine. “Innovation replaces tradition,” the journalist James Surowiecki once...
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When Faith Fails to Make Sense
Sherlock Holmes was famously difficult to rattle. On one occasion, however, he solved a case so heartrending that it elicited a rare bit of angst from the great detective: What is the meaning of it,...
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Glimmers of Hope: Food and the Common Mind
My seed orders arrived right before the plague season got into full swing. Attempts at follow-up orders started running into issues. I decided to ask the only person I know to have created space...
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Live and Let Love (Or, Luther vs. Augustine: A Showdown)
Augustine, among others, is a prize-fighter of the Evangelical church. His Confessions persists as an essential read for every young believer, and his emphatic defense of the church in the ugly face of...
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Law and Gospel in Luther and Paul
You may not have heard, but the 500th anniversary of the unofficial start of the Protestant Reformation happened recently. Praise of Luther and his theology took my Twitter feed by storm as every...
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Day One of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical...
For anyone studying the Bible, theology, or religion, the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (AARSBL) is the go-to conference to learn about the latest and greatest in...
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Another Week Ends: Greenblatt’s Eden, Fidget-Spinning, Fake News Biases,...
1. Well, you just can’t make this up. An urban cowboy riding through the gang-ridden streets of Fresno, California, preaching the gospel of Jesus? On a horse named Grace? Aeon covered the story here,...
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Flipping Rest into Work, Grace into Law
This post comes to us from Samuel Son. Jesus went into the synagogue again and noticed a man with a deformed hand. Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man’s...
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From the Archives – Coping with Our Failure to Be Happy: Moral Palliatives vs...
Well, we’re probably nearing our yearly limit for writing about anxiety, but great articles on the subject have been irrepressible. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that our increasing need to...
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Another Week Ends: Bad Luck, Egyptian Daggers from Outer Space, Piety...
Click here to listen to this week’s episode of The Mockingcast, which features an interview with author and film critic Alissa Wilkinson. 1. This week New York Magazine covered the fascinating...
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From a Beggar Across the Atlantic
This post was written by our Mockingfriend Anna Nott. I’ve been listening to The Barr Brothers lately, a folk quartet from Montreal. They consist of harpist Sarah Page, pianist/composer Andres Vial,...
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Some Things Can’t Be Solved: The Formation of the New Detective
They all think any minute I’m going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have...
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Law and Gospel in Luther and Paul
A theological tour de force by none other than Charis Hamiltonius: You may not have heard, but the 500th anniversary of the unofficial start of the Protestant Reformation happened recently. Praise of...
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Day One of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical...
For anyone studying the Bible, theology, or religion, the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (AARSBL) is the go-to conference to learn about the latest and greatest in...
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Another Week Ends: Greenblatt’s Eden, Fidget-Spinning, Fake News Biases,...
1. Well, you just can’t make this up. An urban cowboy riding through the gang-ridden streets of Fresno, California, preaching the gospel of Jesus? On a horse named Grace? Aeon covered the story here,...
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Flipping Rest into Work, Grace into Law
This post comes to us from Samuel Son. Jesus went into the synagogue again and noticed a man with a deformed hand. Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man’s...
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From the Archives – Coping with Our Failure to Be Happy: Moral Palliatives vs...
Well, we’re probably nearing our yearly limit for writing about anxiety, but great articles on the subject have been irrepressible. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that our increasing need to...
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