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• Click here for the abstract of the study on The Batman Effect
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• Click here to read "In Defense of Picking Eating" by Irina Dumistrescu on Serious Eats.
• Click here to read Belle Tindall's piece on Seen and Unseen, "We Needs a Sense of Shame -- But Need Mercy Even More."
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• Click here to read about "The Pastor Who Rescues People from Japan’s ‘Suicide Cliff’" by Kazusa Okaya in Christianity Today.
• Click here to find out more about Voice of Joy, the Norwegian gospel choir Sarah mentions who also close the show.

• Click here to read Ben Brasch's article "Silent Retreats Are Surging in Popularity" in the Washington Post.
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• Click here to read Ashley Hales's interview with Elizabeth Bruenig in Christianity Today, "Alien Mercy."
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• Click here to read Russell Shaw's article in the Atlantic, "When Your Kid’s Best Friend Is a Great Big Problem."
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• Click here to read Dave's post on "Lessons from a (Miserable) Summer on Crutches".
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• Click here to read "The Pain of Perfectionsism" by Leslie Jamison on The New Yorker.
• Click here to read "Bad Brains" by James Kimmel Jr on Slate.
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• Click here to read Patricia Shannon's column, "Let's Bring Back the Lost Art of the Afternoon Visit" in Southern Living
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The closing song, used with permission, is "Miracle Service" by Andy Squyres, which you can find on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple

• Click here to read Ellen Cushing's article "The Brands Are Very Sorry About Your Trauma."
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• Click here to listen to (and watch) Gregory Porter sing "Take Me to the Alley".
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• Click here to read "The Work of Small Talk" from the Oliver Bateman Does the Work substack.
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• Click here to read Olga Khazan's article about "What Comedians Know About Staying Married".
• Click here to watch Conan O'Brien's acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Award.
• Click here to read "In Praise of Unruly Children in Church" by Phil Christman in The Christian Century.
• Click here to read "It's Always the Other Side That's Brainwashed" by Nikhil Krishnan in The New Yorker.
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Episode title courtesy of Jon Guerra's song "Citizens", used with permission.

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• Click here to read "Dr Pimple Popper Knows You Can't Look Away" by Eve Peyser
• Click here to read Ruth Graham's report on how Christianity’s Decline in U.S. Appears to Have Halted in the NY Times
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• Click here to read NBW's substack "Nobody Is Doing This Right (Except Me)"
• Click here to read "Singing Myself Back to Life" by Susan Swetnam in Commonweal

The closing song is "I See the Birds" by Jon Guerra. Used with permission. Click here to purchase on Apple or here to purchase on Bandcamp, or here to listen on Spotify.

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• Click here to read "Whatever You Do, Don't Review This" by Eric Taub in the NY Times.
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• Click here to read Joshua Rothman's essay in The New Yorker, "Why Is Gratitude So Difficult?"
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• Click here to Garrison Keillor's substack about "Walking to Church On a Cold Day".

• Click here to read Adam Grant's op-ed in the NY Times, "If You’re Sure How the Next Four Years Will Play Out, I Promise: You’re Wrong".
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• Click here to read Kyle Edward Williams piece on Vibes in the Hedgehog Review.
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• Click here Simeon Ellin's piece for Buzzfeed about Tracking Down the Girls Who Bullied Her As a Kid.
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• Click here to listen to The StoryMakers Podcast.
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• Click here to read about backfiring wellness iniatives.
• Click here to read Kristin Wong's article in the The NY Times about financial disparties within friendships.
• Click here to read James Wood's essay "The Autonomy Trap" in Plough.
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• Click here to watch Kris Kristofferson relate the story behind "Why Me Lord?"

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• Click here to read Francesca Carington's article in the The Guardian, "Why Are We So Snobby About Other People's Weddings?"
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• Click here to watch Jerry Seinfeld's commencement address at Duke.
• Click here to read "So Was Body Positivity a Big Lie?" by Samhita Mukhopadhyay in The Cut.
• Click here to read Meghan O'Rourke's "Hypochondria Never Dies" in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read "Found By the Hound of Heaven" by Lindsay Holifield on Mbird.

• Click here to read The New Quarter-Life Crisis by Maggie Mertens in The Atlantic.
• Click here to Kathryn Jezer-Morton's piece on "Parenting Through Control Issues" for The Cut.
• Click here to read The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids by Arthur Brooks.
• Click here to read Lillian Fishman's advice column for The Point, asking Can We Ever Trust Ourselves?
• Click here to read Seven Words That Sum Up the Entire Bible by Anthony Robinson on Mbird.

• Click here for more details about next week's Mbird Conference in NYC
• Click here to read the excerpt from Amanda Montell's new book The Age of Overthinking in Marie Claire
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• Click here to read Sallie Tisdale's piece in The Atlantic, "Do Animals Have Fun?"
• Click here to read Jacob Stern's article on how Of Course America Fell for Liquid Death.
• Click here to read The Case Against the Instant Classic by Sam Bush on Mbird.
• Click here to read the (first three quarters of) of the Garrison Keillor's blog entry that Sarah quotes.
• Click here to read Jen Pollock Michel's Mbird essay "The Long Lent of Alzheimers."
• Click here to read "God's Forgiveness Is Costly" by Emil Brunner on Plough.

• Click here to read the Ask Polly newsletter, "It's Not a Moral Failure to Dislike Someone" by Heather Havrilesky
• Click here to read Rob Henderson's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal "Luxury Beliefs That Only the Privileged Can Afford."
• Click here to Ash French's review of The Book of Clarence in Salon.
• Click here to read Meaghan Ritchey's interview with James K.A. Smith on Mockingbird.

Click here to order your copy of the Mystery Issue of our magazine (where you can read the sermon Dave references)!

Click here to order a copy of The Mystery Issue of The Mockingbird Magazine. And here for more details about our upcoming NYC Conference (4/25-27).

• Click here to read about Rod Rosenbladt and the Gospel for Those Broken by the Church
• Click here to read Gilad Edelman's piece on The Best Small-Talk Topic in the Atlantic
• Click here to read Jessica Bennett's piece on Mean Girls in the NY Times
• Click here to read This Enchanted Universe by Ben Self
• Click here to read Jordan Griesbeck's review of the Michael J Fox documentary, Still

• Click here for more information, or to pre-register for our NYC Conference (4/25-27).
• Click here to read Kathryn Jezer-Morton's newsletter on "Why Are Parents So Fixated on Core Memories?"
• Click here to read Michael Roth's review of Mark Edmundson's book in The Washington Post, "What Would Freud Say About Our Online Lives?"
• Click here to read Russell Moore's piece on "Grace in the Age of Guilt" in Christianity Today.
• Click here to read Mary Harrington's newsletter, "You Need to Be Cringemaxxing."
• Click here to read Sarah's Mbird post on Revenge Vampires.

• Click here to read Angela Watercutter's piece on Why Everyone Is Obsessed With the Kid Who Beat Tetris in Wired.
• Click here to read Karen Heller's essay, "Fun Is Dead" in the Washington Post.
• Click here to read "The Return of the Pagans" by David Wolpe in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Derek Sweatman's reflection on "Why the Magi Matter" on Mbird.

• Click here to read about Mirieam-Webster's word of the year. Click here to read about Oxford's.
• Click here to read Jordan Griesbeck's post on Mbird, "Thou Shalt Have a Thing."
• Click here to read Rachel Cohen's essay for Vox, “How Millennials Learned to Dread Motherhood.”
• Click here to read Josh Jeter's interview with Christian Wiman on Christianity Today.
• Click here to read Sarah's article, "Put the Sad Back in Christmas."

The closing song is "Medium Christmas" by Caroline Fowler and is included with permission.

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• Click here to read Josh Cohen's essay on Passive Aggression in 1843 Magazine.
• Click here to read Zadie Smith's piece, The Fall of My Teen-Age Self in The New Yorker.
• Click here to read Blake Nail's Mbird article on "André 3000’s Flute in the Midst of Loudness".
• Click here to read the interview with Phil Klay in the NY Times Magazine, "Finding a Moral Center in this Era of War."

• Click here to read Sarah Sloat's piece on The Plight of the Eldest Daughter in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Katie Roiphe's WSJ essay on "Why Are We So Obsessed with Sam Bankman-Fried's Parents?"
• Click here to listen to Simeon Zahl's talk from Minneapolis, "The World Is a Hospital".
• Click here to read the review of Dachner Keltner's book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform You Life in The Guardian.
• Click here to read about Kat von D's conversion. And click here to watch the video of her baptism.
• Click here to read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's column, "Why I Am Now a Christian" on UnHerd.

• Click here to read Rose Horowich's "Too Many People Own Dogs" in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Patti Davis's column in the NY Times, "Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction."
• Click here to order a copy of John Z's Grace in Addiction, published by Mockingbird.
• Click here to read Spencer Kornhaber's review of Britney Spears's new memoir.
• Click here to read Corinne Purtill's profile of Robert Sapolsky in The LA Times.
• Click here to read Matthew Sitman's essay on Muddling Through that he references in the Know Your Enemy clip (used with permission).

• Click here to Adam Mastroianni's piece on "Do I Have to Keep Flossing?"
• Click here to read the interview with Esther Perel about the 3 Things Every Couple Fights About.
• Click here to read Dan Barry's profile of the Minnesota Board of Pardons (and view the incredible photos by Todd Heisler).
• Click here to read Dave's post, "Doormats Are Holy."
• Click here to read about "God's Compassionate Indifference to Sinners" by Todd Brewer.

• Click here to read the Reductress article "Why I Don’t Believe in Astrology Unless It Reaffirms Something I Already Thought."
• Click here to read Christine Emba's essay "Men Are Lost. Here's a Map Out of the Wilderness" in the Washington Post.
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• Click here to read "Why Baseball Doc ‘Saint of Second Chances’ Is Making Grown Men Cry" by Nick Schager in The Daily Beast.
• Click here to read Katelyn Beaty's essay "Mercy Begets Mercy" in The Mockingbird.
• Click here to read Andy Squyres's devotion "I Saw God".

• Click here to learn more about Mbird's upcoming Minneapolis conference (9/29-30).
• Click here to read Joshua Musser Gritter's piece Why I Love Short-Term Mission Trips.
• Click here to read Forbes's article on The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders.
• Click here for more details on Mary Cail's new book, Dementia and The Church.
• Click here to read The Economist's obituary for Bindeshwar Pathak.
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• Click here to read the interview with Jennifer Breheny Wallace in The Harvard Gazette.
• Click here to read Dave's post about Advertising Your Hypocrisy.
• The devotion discussed at the end of the cast, written by Melina Smith of Storymakers, is taken from the upcoming devotional edited by Katie Koplin and published by 1517 Press, Encouragement for Motherhood. It comes out in Spring of 2024.

• Click here to read Agnes Callard's "The Case Against Travel" in The New Yorker
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• Click here to read Rachel Wolfe's report on Why Tipping Prompts Are Suddenly Everywhere for the Wall Street Journal.
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• Click here to read the piece about Grief in Stand Up Comedy by Nick Zinoman.
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• Click here to read Rebecca Jennings' article about baby name consultants in Vox.
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• Click here to read the LA Times article about Beef.
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• Click here to read Elizabeth Bruenig's essay for The Point, on "The Limits of Forgiveness".
• Click here to read Sarah's Easter devotion The Light Has Come to Stay.
• Click here to read the Easter sermon of St John Chrysostym.

• Click here to read Jennifer Senior's essay on "The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are" in The Atlantic
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• Click here to read Anthony Robinson's post on Mbird about "The Cognitive Distortions of Legalistic Preaching"

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• Click here to read "Why Everyone Feels Like They're Faking It" by Leslie Jamison in The New Yorker.
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Correction: around the 30 min mark, when Dave says "Johnny Walker" he meant to say "Jack Daniels."

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• Click here to read Derek Thompson's newsletter on what Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture.
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• Click here to read Todd Brewer's piece on Preaching That Connects.

• Click here to read Mychal Denzel Smith's article "Why Do People Think Going to Therapy Makes You a Good Person?".
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• Click here to read The Atlantic's poll on "What People Don't Understand About Your Job".
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• Click here to read Ken Sundet Jones's piece on Mbird, "Where God Met Me".

• Click here to read Drew Gilpin Faust's piece on how Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive in The Atlantic.
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• Click here to read Sarah Hinlicky Wilson's piece for Mbird, "One Big (Unhappy) Family?".
• Click here to read the NY Times Magazine's interview with Nick Cave.
• Click here to order his book Faith, Hope, and Carnage.

• Click here to read Peter Coy's newsletter about The Moralization of Effort.
• Click here to read The NY Times article "The Sixth Love Language Does Not Exist" by Alisha Haridasani Gupta.
• Click here to read Jane Grizzle's piece about The Bear.
• Click here to watch episode 3 of the first season of BBC's Call the Midwife.
• Click here to read Alan Levinovitz's essay In Praise of Bewilderment in The Hedghog Review.

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Recommendations: The Brothers Zahl podcast, Soultime, Radical Love by Zachary Levi, Better Call Saul, and The Neal Morse Band
Click here to read David Brooks' "The Man Who Found His Inner Depths".
Click here to read Mischa Willet's "Corresponding with Buechner".
Click here to read about The Rise of Worker Productivity Score by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaramin the NY Times Magazine.
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Click here to read Eve Fairbanks's piece taking the pulse of contemporary Afrikaners in The Atlantic.

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• Click here to read Katie Couric's confession of cheugy-ness.
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• Click here to read Torey Lightcap's piece on Polite vs Urgent Worship in America Magazine.
• Click here to read Jason Micheli's post on why Nobody Is Making a Docuseries about Ordinary Churches.

• Click here to read Meghan O'Gieblyn's answer to the question "Do Good Doorbell Cams Make Good Neighbors?" in Wired
• Click here to read Jennifer Senior's essay on "It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart" in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Lexi Pandell's column on "How 'Trauma' Became the Word of the Decade" in Vox
• Click here to watch Stephen Colbert's surprising response to Dua Lipa's question about humor and faith.

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• Click here to read the Economist piece on "The Rise of Performative Work."
• Click here to read The Wall Street Journal's investigation into Why the Catholic Church Is Losing South America.
• Click here to read Mallory McDuff's article on Why I Cry in Church.

Our last episode of the year in which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk mallstalgia, gift aversions, parent-child privilege gaps, and gambling addictions.

Click here to read Jason Tebbe's piece on mallstalgia for Tropics of Meta.
Click here to read Sarah Hinlicky Wilson's confession, "I Hate Presents."
Click here to read Esau McCaulley's op-ed on how to raise middle-class kids if you grew up poor.
Click here to read Stephen Marche's article about how America's Gambling Addiction is Metastasizing in The Atlantic.
Click here to read Sam Bush's reflection on Risky Business.

• Click here to read Joseph E Davis's piece on "The Studied Art of the College Application Essay"
• Click here to read Carrie Battan's review of Emily Ratajkowski's book in The New Yorker
• Click here to read Kathryn Jezer-Morton's newsletter asking "Is Cozy Season a Cry for Help?"
• Click here to read Nadia Bolz-Weber's sermon "Sin Boldly"

This episode is dedicated to the memory of John Owen, a member of the Condon family who died recently.

• Click here to read Craig Coyne's piece on "How Pickleball Won Everyone Over" in Vanity Fair.
• Click here to check out Alex Da Corte's sculpture on the top of the Met.
• Click here to read Ian Bogost's piece "People Aren't Meant to Talk This Much" in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Eva Wiseman's exploration of "The Dark Side of Wellness."
• Click here to read Zack Verham's piece on "Faith After Exvangelical Deconstruction."
• Click here to read Giles Fraser writing about Trendy Vicars (and St. Mike's).

• Click here to read “You’re a Different Person When You Travel” by Jen Rose Smith in The Washington Post.
• Click here Louis Menand’s essay “It’s Time to Stop Talking about ‘Generations’” in The New Yorker.
• Click here to read Arthur Brooks piece on The Difference Between Optimism and Hope.
• Click here to read Joseph Keegin's essay on Death and Forgiveness.

• Click here to read David Brooks column on "Is Self-Awareness a Mirage?"
• Click here to read the interview with Anne Lamott in Time.
• Click here to read about the Nap Ministry.
• Click here to read Dave's water polo story. (And here to order the book in question).

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• Click here to watch Norm Macdonald deliver the Moth Joke.
• Click here to read Will Storr's article on Status Games in The Guardian.
• Click here to read Ed West's review of Storr's book on UnHerd.
• Click here to read Hannah Anderson article in Christianity Today on how COVID Killed Our Sense of Personal Progress.
• Click here to read Shivani Radhakrishnan's article "Uncertain Terms" in The Point.
• Click here to order Megahan O'Gieblyn's new book God Human Animal Machine.

• Click here to read Amanda Mull's article on how American Shoppers Are a Nightmare
• Click here to read Josh Cohen's essay on The Perfectionism Trap
• Click here to read Nadia Bolz Weber's newsletter on what to do If You Can't Take In Anymore
• Click here to read the Vox interview with Elizabeth Bruenig about forgiveness
• Finally, click here to read Sarah's account of what happened with the stained-glass window

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• To read Sophie Gilbert's review of Cultish, click here.
• To read Hanif Abdurraqib's column "On Sneakers", click here.
• To read Kelsey Osgood's essay on "Ernest Becker and Our Fear of Death", click here.
• To read Nightbirde's piece God Is On the Bathroom Floor, click here.

• Click here to read Charlie Tyson's review in The Atlantic on Why Are We So Spiteful?
• Click here to watch Todd Brewer's talk on Anger ("If Jesus Had a Twitter Account") from our Tyler Conference.
• Click here to read Jill Lepore's essay on Burnout in The New Yorker
• Click here to read Katie Heaney's piece on The Clock-Out Cure in The Cut
• Click here to read Vice's article on Why Chaplains Are in High Demand in an Increasingly Secular America
• Click here to read Sam Bush's post on Facing the Strange
• Click here to read Dave's post on Becoming a Cliché

Recommendations:

• Click here to order Spencer Reece's All the Beauty Still Left
• Click here to listen to Natalie Bergman's new album Mercy
• Click here to read the profile of Sinead O'Connor in the NY Times

Click here to read How Adult Children Affect Their Mothers' Happiness
Click here to read about The Grim Secret of Nordic Happiness in Slate.
Click here to read Oliver Burkeman's newsletter on mastery.
Click here to read Audrey Pollnow's newsletter on elite American religion.
Click here to read Michael Gerson's sermon from The National Cathedral.

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• Click here to read The Washington Post's report on our aversion to subtraction when it comes to problem solving.
• Click here to read Lynn Berger's article in Time on Birth Order.
• Click here to read Zach Baron's profile in GQ on The Redemption of Justin Bieber.
• Click here to read John Newton's letter on the dangers of courting controversy.

• Click here to read The New Yorker's list of Things Fully Vaccinated People Are Still Not Allowed to Do.
• Click here to read Anne Helen Peterson's newsletter, "I'm Not Ready."
• Click here to read Nora Caplan-Bricker's essay "House Hunters" in The Point.
• Click here to read Lotte Jeffs' piece "A Life More Ordinary" in Elle.
• Click here to read Arthur Brooks' article on Humility and "How to Get Better at Admitting You're Wrong" in the Atlantic
• Click here to watch RJ's Easter sermon.

Click here to watch the trailer for Last Chance U: Basketball.
Click here to read the New Yorker's profile of Sherry Turkle.
Click here to read Vice's article on "Why Your ‘True Self’ Is An Illusion" by Shayla Love.
Click here to read Graeme Wood's piece "America Has Forgotten How to Forgive" in The Atlantic.
Click here to read DZ's reflection on Regret and here for his piece on The Doctine of Grace vs The Disposition of Grace.
Click here to view the painting by James Tissot that RJ references, "What Our Lord Saw from The Cross".

• Click here to read The Wall Street Journal's report on the intenational baby bust.
• Click here to read Leigh Stein's piece on The Empty Religions of Instagram.
• Click here to read Giles Fraser's column on changing attitudes toward memorials.
• Click here to read James K.A. Smith's essay on The Intelligence of Love.
• Click here to read Tim Keller's reflection on "Growing My Faith in the Face of Death."

• Click here to read Rebecca Schumann's overview of the new German words being invented to describe pandemic life.
• Click here to read The New Yorker's profile of The Age of Peak Advice.
• Click here to read Sam Bush's One Simple Rule for Never Making a Bad Decision.
• Click here to read Matt Ortile's essay for Catapult on grief and gaming.
• Click here to read Samuel Wells' sermon on Job and the Love Stronger than Death.
• Click here to check out The Brothers Zahl podcast!

• Click here to read Amanda Mull's piece on how The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
• Click here to read the report in the Toronto Star about decreasing sexual activity during the pandemic
• Click here to read Jane Grizzle's post on how The Moms Are Not Alright
• Click here to read Jerry Useem's article Bring Back the Nervous Breakdown
• Click here to read the excerpt from Tish Harrison Warren's new book, "How To Pray While Drowning in Doubt"

• Click here to read Joshua Coleman's article in The Atlantic about Why Parents and Children Get Estranged
• Click here to read Heather Havrilesky's column addressing the "I Want My Family to Love Me Unconditionally" inquiry
• Click here to read Dave's Confessions of a Former Youth Minister
• Click here to read Vinson Cunningham's rundown in The New Yorker of "What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus"

• Click here to read Sarah's message about the tragic news she received just after recording (that RJ mentions in the prelude). Please pray like mad for the Condon family.
• Click here to read Elizabeth Faidley's incredible write-up of the Pearl the Mermaid Baby Saga, which includes a picture of you-know-who (you've been warned).
• Click here to read Ben Donick's piece about Library Books.
• Click here to persue our gift guide.
• Click here to read Ruth Graham's article on the Rise and Fall of Carl Lentz.
• Click here to read DZ's post about Sad Clowns.
• Click here to read David French's column on The Crisis of Christian Celebrity.
• Click here to read Walter Russell Mead's meditation on Advent.

Click here to order the issue.

Click here to read about Soul Toupees.
Click here to read Ruth Whippman's article on America the Anxious.
Click here to read Eric Weiner's piece on what it's like to be a None.
Click here to read a portion of Francis Spufford's Yeshau chapter from Unapologetic.
Click here to read the article Dave mentions about mid-life crises.
Click here to read Sarah's post on Overconfident Men and Underestimating Women.

• Click here to preview and/or order the Sports Issue of our magazine.
• Click here to pre-order the new Mockingbird Devotional, Vol 2.
• Click here to read (and subscribe to!) Oliver Burkeman's newsletter, The Imperfectionist.
• Click here to read Lisa Miller's column in The Cut, "My Therapist Was Right About Uncertainty."
• Click here to read about Second Sleep on Tedium.
• Click here to read Arthur Brooks's explanation why Americans have gotten unhappier as they've gotten more comfortable.

• Click here to read Mo Perry's Great Rearranging newsletter.
• Click here to read the NY Times article about "the real divide in America."
• Click here to read CJ's write-up of Helena Dea Bala's Craigslist Confessional.
• Click here to read Chad Bird's rationale for why 2020 Is A Great Year For the Church.

• Click here to read Sam Anderson's article on the NBA bubble.
• Click here to read our interview with theologian Nimi Wariboko.
• Click here to watch the video for The Pioneers' "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah."
• Click here to read Anne Helen Peterson's interview about millennial parenting in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read the excerpt of Anne Helen Peterson's Can't Even in Wired.
• Click here to read Anne Helen Peterson's newsletter about clergy burnout.
• Click here to read Peter Ormerod's column on unconcscious bias training in The Guardian.

In all seriousness though:

• To read the interview with Lana Del Rey, click here.
• To read the review of The Twittering Machine in Book Forum, click here.
• To read Bloomberg's "Welcome to Your Bland New World," click here.
• To read Duo Dickinson's "Love Across the Political Divide," click here.
• Oh and to read DZ's reflection on the Before films, click here.

• Click here to read the full opening news report.
• Click here to read Nellie Bowles's NY Times profile of spiritual consultants in the workplace. And here to read Dave's commentary on it.
• Click here to read the ESPN story on Paul George.
• Click here to read Chris Arnade's "Dignity to Endure."
• Click here to read Alan Jacobs's article "Hate the Sin, Not the Book."
• Click here to read Nathan White's piece on Julian of Norwich's Hope.

Click here to read the Inside Higher Ed piece on college reopenings.
Click here to read Sarah's post on Defunding Your Inner Police.
Click here to read Tim Kreider's article, "I Am a Meme Now."
Click here to read Theo Hobson's column "Racism Is a Sin and We Are All Sinners."
Click here for 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee.

• Click here to read Your School District's Reopening Survey on McSweeney's.
• Click here to read Zadie Smith's thoughts on "Suffering Like Mel Gibson"--and see the meme we mention.
• Click here to read Meghan O'Gieblyn's response on Wired to the question of "Why Do I Keep Refusing to Install OS Updates?"
• Click here to watch Giles Fraser's talk on "Christianity and Morality: The Story of an Uneasy Relationship."

Oh and click here to order the expanded paperback edition of Seculosity.

Click here to read the WSJ article on Smoking.
Click here to read the article about COVID-19 Killing the Soulmate Model of Marriage.
Click here to read David Clay's Mbird piece on the Freedom to be Bored.
Click here to read Ross Douthat's column on The Real White Fragility.
Click here to read Kat Rosenfield's "Master Cleanse".
Click here to read the excerpt from John Lewis's final book.

• Click here to read Shannon Ashley's column on Medium "Girl, You've Been Made."
• Click here to read Zeynep Tufekci on how "Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping".
• Click here to read Tess Wilkinson-Ryan's article for The Atlantic on the psychological morass of reopening.
• Click here to read Michael Lewis's essay on Coach Fitzgerald's Management Theory (or here to listen to the episode of Against the Rules about it).

• Click here to read Sam Bush's article about God of Our (Lonely) Fathers.
• Click here to read Ekemini Uwan's piece about Radical Acceptance and the New Normal.
• Click here to read Chad Bird's column on Hashtag Preaching and Whack-a-Mole Worship.
• Click here to read Esau McCaulley's article about What The Bible Has to Say About Black Anger.

• Click here to read CNN's report on picky eating.
• Click here to read The NY Times piece on How to Talk to a Racist
• Click here to read CT's article on the Gospel Legacy George Floyd left in Houston
• Click here to read Fr Stephen Freeman's "It's Good To Be Here.
• Click here to read the NY Review of Books article on A Tale of Two Churches.

• Click here to read Chuck Wendig's article on "Calvin and Hobbes and Quarantine."
• Click here to read Ellen McCarthy's article on how "The Dishes Will Never Be Done."
• Click here to read about "The Science of Prayer."
• Click here to read Todd Brewer's "Good News That Never Goes Out of Style."

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Click here to read an excerpt of Judith Warner's new book, And Then They Stopped Talking to Me
Click here to read about the full Waffle House report
Click here to read Ryan Hockensmith's article about "My Priceless, Worthless Baseball Cards"
Click here to read Tara Isabella Burton's feature on Weird Christianity

• Click here to read Ian Olson's article on The Acquittal of Our Guilty Pleasures
• Click here to read Megan Garber's appraisal of Groundhog Day
• Click here to read Damon Linker's When Time Stops
• Click here to read Todd Brewer's post on Exorcisms, Jesus and Modernity.
  
• Click here to read Tom Holland's argument for why Church Leaders Should Not Be Talking Like Middle Managers in this Time of Crisis.

• Click here to read Brian Phillips' piece on Michael Jordan the Story Versus Michael Jordan the Man.
• Click here to read Laurie Penny's essay on how Productivity Is Not Working.
• Click here to read Thomas J. Millay's review of Sylvia Walsh's new book on Kierkegaard and Religion.
• Click here to read Sarah Denley Harrington's post on The Freedom to Do Nothing.
• Click here to read Lydia Suitt's reflection on Quarantine Side Effects.

• Click here to read Jennifer Weiner's piece on The Seductive Appeal of Pandemic Shaming.
• Click here to read Emily Lordi's The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers
• Click here to read Agnes Callard's article on The Emotion Police
• Click here to read Kate Julian's What Happened to American Childhood?
• Click here to read Giles Fraser's post on Where Is God in this COVID Horror?

• To read Sam Anderson's profile of Weird Al, click here.
• To read Amanda McMillen's piece on Grace Before and After Corona, click here.
• To read Todd Brewer's essay on "More Than Lament", click here.
• To read The NY Times interview with Kate Bowler about living in the face of fear, click here.
• To read Josh Musser Gritter's post about "When Jesus Got Infected", click here.

• Jennifer Senior's "Welcome to Marriage During Coronavirus"
• "Lowering the Bar in Parenting" via The Cut
• Productivity in a Pandemic
• Click here to read Tim Kreider's polemic Against Advice
• Click here to read why Jason Micheli won't be doing any celebrations of life

• Click here to read David Brooks' column on how Pandemics Kill Compassion.
• Click here to read Emmy Yang's article on What Martin Luther Teaches Us About Coronavirus.
• Click here to read Sarah's list of people she's praying for.
• Click here to follow the Mockingbird Facebook page, where daily video devotions will be posted starting on Monday.

• Click here to read about Lady Gaga's new boyfriend's ex-girfriend
• Click here to read Sarah's article about the blessings of the elderly
• Click here to view A Photographer's Parents Wave Farewell
• Click here to read Tara Isabella Burton's piece on fleeing coronapanic.
• Click here to read Stephen Freeman's post on forgiving other people's enemies.

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• Click here to read Jennifer Weiner's article "I Feel Personally Judged by J.Lo's Body"
• Click here to read Lydia Denworth's article on The Outsize Influence of Your Middle School Friends in The Atlantic.
• Click here to read Gavin Haynes' article on "How Knitters Got Knotted in a Purity Spiral".
• Click here to read David Brooks' piece, "Jesus Is a Jew."

• Click here to read Agnes Callard's article "Who Wants to Play the Status Game?"
• Click here to read Todd Brewer's piece "Netflix’s 'Cheer': Law and Grace in Action."
• Click here to read Christianity Today's interview with Bryan Stevenson.
• Click here to read Philip Jenkins' post "The Decline of Us-ness: Bowling Alone and Dying Alone."

• Click here to read The Atlantic's explanation of Why You Have No Time
• Click here to read Katherine Miller's essay on how The 2010's Broke Our Sense of Time
• Click here to listen to the interview with Ada Calhoun about Gen X judgements
• Click here to read Lonnie Lacy's sermon What We Hold

• Click here to read Jia Tolentino's article on "The Quiet Protests of Sassy Mom Merch."
• Click here to read Tish Harrison Warren's NY Times column about Advent.
• Click here to read Ben Maddison's "Mary Definitely Knew."
• Click here to respond to the invitation at the beginning and support The Mockingcast!

• Click here to read Aja Romano's article in Vox about the OK boomer meme.
• Click here to read Batya Ungar-Sargon's "A Tale of Two Churches" in the NY Review of Books.
• Click here to read about the Ahlan Simsim children's show.
• Click here to read Sarah Condon's piece "When Jesus Tells a Boob Joke".

• Click here to read John McDermott's article "Those People We Cancelled? They're All Hanging Out Together".
• Click here to read Arthur Krystal's "Why We Can't Tell the Truth About Aging".
• Click here to read Sarah's article "When People Tell Me It's Hard to Find a Church".
• Click here to read Christine Emba's column "Why Millennials Are Skipping Church and Not Coming Back".
• Click here to read Ross Douthat's piece "The Overstated Collapse of American Christianity".

• To read Tim Kreider's article about procrastination, click here.
• To read Agnes Callard's article about panic and parenting, click here.
• To read Wesley Hill's article about unnecessary gifts, click here.
• And to read Sarah Condon's article about Beth Moore, go here.

• Click here to read Jonathan Malesic's essay "The Noonday Demon."
• Click here to read "Rigorous Grace: A Conversation Between Leslie Jamison and Kaveh Akbar."
• Click here to read Heidi Haverkamp's article "How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity."

Click here to read Sarah's article about boys.
Click here to read Tavi Gevinson's (long) article about Instagram.
Click here to read John Gray's review of Tom Holland's new book,_ Dominion_.
Go here to learn more about StoryMakers.

This episode is dedicated to Emily and Alex Large.

• Click here to read Joel's Stein article "I Toured the ‘Brady Bunch’ House and It Did Not Go As Planned."
• Click here to read Scott Hershovitz's column "Taylor Swift, Philosopher of Forgiveness."
• Click here to read Ross Douthat's essay "The Age of American Despair."

• Click here to read Amanda Mull's article "White Claw Is What Happens When Being Cool Becomes Exhausting."
• Click here to read Nate Jackson's column "Football Doesn't Let You Leave."
• Click here to read Sharon Hodde Miller's take on "Why Niceness Weakens Our Witness."

• Click here to read the article "We Have Ruined Childhood by Kim Brooks
• Click here to read "The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman" by Jia Tolentino
• Click here to read "Behold, The Millennial Nuns" by Eve Fairbanks
• Click here to watch the clip of Anderson Cooper interviewing Stephen Colbert

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The articles discussed include:

• "The Devil Lives in the Mirror" by Jessica Hooten Wilson via Christianity Today
• "Stop Blaming the Devil" by Sarah Condon
• "Is Marriage Obsolete?" by Heather Havrilesky via The Cut
• "The Pursuit of High Self-Esteem Is Making Us Miserable" by Shayla Love via Vice

• "The Tyranny of Summer Expectations" by Carrie Willard via Mbird.com
• "You Accomplished Something Great" by A.C. Shilton via New York Times
• "If I Only Understood the Arrival Fallacy I'd be Happy" by David Zahl via Mbird.com
• "The Age of Pelagius" by Joshua Hawley via Christianity Today
• "Semi-Pelagianism Glossay Entry" via Mbird.com

• "Sleepless in Silicon Valley" via The Economist
• "Morehouse College Grads are Suprised" by Eliott C. McLaughlin via CNN
• "Is This Fair to Families who Saved?" by Michelle Singletary via The Washington Post
• "Back Row America" by Chris Arnade via First Things
• "The Only Places on the Streets That Understand" by David Zahl via Mbird.com

• "When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?" by Soraya Roberts via Longreads
• "Let's Face It, We All Judge Other People's Relationships" by Oliver Burkeman via The Guardian
• "Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits" by Emma Green via The Atlantic
• "Jean Vanier Made Us All More Human" by Bethany McKinney Fox via Christianity Today