<p>In which Sarah, RJ, and Dave talk about noonday demons, divine surprises, and the doctrine that rhymes with schmotal decavity. Also, RJ comes clean about why he watches SEC football. </p>

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<li><a href="https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/economic-justice/the-noonday-demon" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> to read Jonathan Malesic&#39;s essay &quot;The Noonday Demon.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/30/rigorous-grace-a-conversation-between-leslie-jamison-and-kaveh-akbar/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fb5a65fb86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Weekly_12072018_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-fb5a65fb86-55918917&mc_cid=fb5a65fb86&mc_eid=35fe499107" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> to read &quot;Rigorous Grace: A Conversation Between Leslie Jamison and Kaveh Akbar.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.christiancentury.org/article/first-person/how-i-learned-love-doctrine-total-depravity" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> to read Heidi Haverkamp&#39;s article &quot;How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity.&quot;</li>
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Episode 169: Optimizing the Broken

The Mockingcast is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by RJ Heijmen, Sarah Condon and David Zahl, and brought to you by Mockingbird Ministries, an organization which seeks to connect the Christian faith with the realities of everyday life in fresh and down-to-earth ways. You can find out more about Mockingbird at www.mbird.com. Audio production provided by TJ Hester.