In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk affective forecasting, fantasy literature, workplace mattering, and collapsed demands. Also, a punk rocker gets a miracle bus ticket, and the ice monster comes for our kids.

• Click here to register for the Spring Mbird Conference in NYC (4/23-25)
• Click here to listen to Sarah's sermon "I Like Your Dancing", delivered at RJ's church.
• Click here to read "Most of Us Are Bad at Predicting What Will Make Us Happy" by Ruston Dodd on The Athletic.
• Click here to read Francis Spufford's defense of fantasy in The Guardian.
• Click here to read The Up and Up's interview with Jennifer Breheny Wallace about Gen Z and Mattering.
• Click here to read about "The Three Quarter Life Crisis" by Rob Myallis on Mbird.
• Click here to read "What Remains When Nothing Can Be Done" by Kyle Wells on Mbird.

In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk face functions, last breaths, cringe churches, and Monkey Jesus. Also, Sarah runs into a teenage witch while RJ survives an iguanapocalypse. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Derek Sweatman.

• Click here to register for the upcoming NYC Mockingbird conference (4/23-25).
• Click here to read "Is the Backlash to Facial Conformity Finally Upon Us?" by Valerie Monroe in Allure.
• Click here to read "Ash Wednesday Asks Nothing" by Jacob Lupfer in Commonweal.
• Click here to read "A Church of Cringe" by Todd Brewer on Mbird.
• Click here to read the obituary for Cecilia Giménez in The Economist.

Delivered at the 2017 American Academy of Religion conference (AARSBL) in Boston, MA on Nov. 19, 2017.