#Instagrown: In an Age of Instantaneous Everything, What Happens to...
Adolescence is a matter of restlessness. It is a churning, writhing cesspool of desire. No, not that kind of desire – not entirely. Mostly, it is the recognition of this pull toward adulthood, the...
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‘Tearaway,’ Tolkien, and the Role of Sub-Creation
Warning: This article contains spoilers about the video game Tearaway. Tearaway I don’t think Media Molecule consciously attempted to make Tearaway (a paper-styled platform game for the PlayStation...
View ArticleHip Hop Out of Nothing: A Disenfranchised Community’s Word-Wrought Empowerment
It’s not uncommon to see web, tabloid, and newspaper images of Jay Z sitting courtside at a Brooklyn Nets game. He’s a mogul, a purveyor of “cool,” and a world-famous musician; he belongs there, he...
View ArticleOutside the Courtroom: How People, Not Merely Policy, Can End Abortion
The year 2013 was a banner year for pro-life legislative victories. Twenty-two states enacted 70 abortion restrictions, including three fetal pain laws and eight bans on medication abortion via...
View ArticleThe Power of Habit: Picking up Where Paul Left Off
People who are serious about Christian theology are usually not fans of books in the “self-help” genre. On the surface, the genre title itself goes against the grain of Christian teaching on personal...
View Article7 Things to Keep in Mind About Season 7, Episode 6 of Mad Men
Spoilers, of course. If you haven’t already, make sure to read our full episode recap, Searching for Family. I would be remiss to not note, in the ongoing game of mortality bingo, that “My Way” is...
View ArticleCAPC Podcast #78 – College, Tony Stewart, Everything Sucks
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we discuss a wide range of topics and provide the kind of perspectives you’ve grown to love from our stable of thoughtful, talented writers and editors. Please...
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Under New Management: Christ and Pop Culture’s Future
Some exciting and depressing changes are afoot at Christ and Pop Culture. Our Editor-in-Chief and the founder of Christ and Pop Culture, Richard Clark, is stepping aside and taking a position at...
View ArticleRolling Stone’s Failure Is a Reminder to Respect the Truth
When Sabrina Rubin Erdely set out to write “A Rape on Campus” — the sensational article that appeared in Rolling Stone’s November 2014 issue — she had an angle in mind. According to her notes from an...
View ArticleDispelling Work Haze and Vacation Daze: Life Rhythms of Faith
The following is the Letter from the Editor for Volume 3, Issue 9 of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine: “Dispelling Work Haze and Vacation Daze.” You can subscribe to Christ and Pop Culture Magazine by...
View ArticleThe CAPC Digest #20: Kickended: Crowd-funding and Crowd-failure with Luke T....
Drew and Brad chat with Luke T. Harrington about his recent Lol Interwebz column about Kickended, a site dedicated to chronicling Kickstarter campaigns that failed to receive a single pledge. We talk...
View ArticleLOL Interwebz: But Who Gawks at the Gawkers?
Every Thursday in LOL Interwebz, Luke T. Harrington explores the quirks and foibles of Internet culture from a Gospel perspective. I clicked on Gawker’s Condé Nast story before I had any idea it would...
View ArticlePersuasion Episode 25: The Skin We’re In
We meet others first through the body we live in, which may be why it’s so easy to become obsessed with them. In addition to grooming, exercising, dressing them, we are now able to nip, tuck, amputate...
View ArticlePersuasion Episode 26: Of Boys and Men
http://traffic.libsyn.com/capcpod/Persuasion_Episode_26.mp3 Recent news has us cheering and jeering men for walking out society’s definitions of manhood. We cheer the U.S. men who stopped a gunman in...
View ArticleThe CAPC Digest #31: Spawn of the Dark Father
New co-host, Tyler Burns, joins Drew to geek out with special guest Paul Miller about the new Star Wars trailer and to disect the relationship between Luke and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back....
View ArticleThe CAPC Digest Episode 32: Trump and Money with S.D. Kelly
Drew and Tyler chat with S.D. Kelly about her recent column on the “evangelical” fascination with Donald Trump. We chat about the power and influence of money on Christians and their political...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: An Incredible Adoption Story
A Christian couple working in a hospital in India have adopted a baby whose physical deformities led his birth family to consider killing him. Critics of the evangelical adoption movement, who point...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: Wikipedia Closing the Gender Gap
Not long ago I wrote an article about the imbalance of women represented in film, so I was pleased to discover Wikipedia’s concerted effort to address the gender imbalance in its online content. In...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: Diversity’s Role in Helping Minorities Flourish
In a recent post at the Reformed African American Network, Anthony Bradley addresses what he calls “a pervasive misunderstanding” of diversity: its presence doesn’t automatically help blacks flourish,...
View ArticleELSEWHERE: Rethinking Cotton Mather
Even Jonathan “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” Edwards gets more love than Cotton Mather, the third-generation American Puritan pastor and theologian often blamed for the Salem Witch Trials....
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