When John Locke Turned Gospel Into Law
It’s no secret that here at Mockingbird we like to talk about how the themes of Law and Grace play out in everyday life, so much, in fact, that there’s now a Mockingbird publication which bears its...
View ArticleFrom the Forgiveness Issue: 11 Special Portraits of Forgiveness in Film
This list, from the Rev. JAZ, is our first free peek at our summer issue. If you’d like to order a copy, check them out here. Les Miserables In any version, this is the gold standard. You know the...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleFrom 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,...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleFlipping 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...
View ArticleAnother 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,...
View ArticleDay 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...
View ArticleLaw 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleFrom 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,...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleFlipping 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...
View ArticleAnother 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,...
View ArticleDay 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...
View ArticleLaw 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...
View ArticleLive 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...
View ArticleGlimmers 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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