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It is a difficult thing to watch a person struggle under a curse, even if that person is a world-famous golfer named Rory McIlroy. It is more difficult, still, because most of us know what it feels like to be under the curse of something — something we can’t get out from and wonder if we ever will. So when we see a struggling person finally come unlocked — unburdened and free...

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The class was Developmental Adapted Physical Education for High School, and my shift included two class periods. At the start of the second, this young man walked up to me, and we had the following exchange:

“Where’s Mr. Wyp?”

“I’m Mr. Ryan, and I’m your sub.”

“So I’m stuck with you?”

“Yep, you’re stuck with me.”

“That’s unfortunate.”

Welcome to the sixth edition of Mockingbird’s preacher interview series! Since the fall, we’ve been interviewing some of our favorite ministers from around the country to find out more about what is working in American Christianity today and how to do church well. (See a...

Big day, you guys. For the past year or so, we’ve been hard at work overhauling one of our most popular publications Law & Gospel: A Theology for Sinners (and Saints) by Will McDavid, Ethan Richardson, and myself. We polished the prose, rede...