John Van Deusen

The 2026 conference theme “Wow to the Deadness: Wonder for the Weary” is a riff on a song by our friends Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil (see below), and it feels like the playful environment Mockingbird seeks to create at our events. For the weary, the bewildered, the discouraged, and the lost, we point to the wonder (and delight) of God’s grace. This is the cure for what ails us — and the beginning of wisdom.

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John Van Deusen will head out this year for a solo tour across the country, bringing his critically acclaimed work to a series of intimate rooms where the songs can land the way they were written — stripped back and honest.