This was my 3rd year attending the Mockingbird Conference, and, as in every year, I struggled to answer the question posed by my friends, family, and fellow seminarians. Every year they ask the same question, “Now, what’s this thing that you are going to?”

Fall 2024 An Anxious SowerI grew up in the era of the “BuzzFeed quiz.” In High School, as we wrestled with our place in the world and the anxieties of our various social circles, amid all that uncertainty, teenage angst, and worry about whether we were becoming who we were