- 489
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 86
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Talkingbird
Your destination for talks given at events hosted by Mockingbird (www.mbird.com), both present and past. Subjects run the gamut from religion and theology to psychology and literature to pop culture and relationships and everything in between. Humor and grace abound.
- Publisher
- Mockingbird
- Category
- arts · religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 May 2018
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 489 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Faith Begins With Play: Enchanting the Next Generation — Melina Smith
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Most Simple, Most Ordinary, Most Terrible: Grace for Ivan Ilyich and the Rest of Us — Mark Koschmann
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Grace for the Sometimes/Frequently/How About ‘Always?’ Challenging Relationships Between Adult Children and Parents? — Tony Robinson
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Faith Begins With Play: Enchanting the Next Generation — Melina Smith
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Each layer to me holds a fragment of time as they overlap and conceal one another until something entirely new begins to emerge. That's what fascinated me about the process. It's surprising and often unpredictable. I rarely start with a clear fixed vision, Instead, the process relies on intuition and paying close attention, following the image until I recognize something I couldn't see before, or until a sense of wholeness emerges from the fragments. For a long time, I wondered why do I keep adding so many layers, until I realize that what I'm trying to recreate is, I think, what it means to be human in this world. […]
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- Melina Smith
- Mark Koschmann
- Tony Robinson
- Joey Goodall
- Paul Zahl
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 81 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
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