The Mockingcast

<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>

<p>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&#39;s. Then the roundtable talks &quot;people analytics&quot;, living in bubbles and the foolish culture of the carnival. </p><p>Special Guests: Carlen Maddux, Lindy Jones.</p>

<p>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.</p><p>Special Guest: Paul Walker .</p>

<p>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.</p><p>Special Guest: Jennifer Underwood.</p>