Persuasion 205 BONUS | Interview with Alan Noble
Listen to Erin’s full interview with Alan Noble in this special members-only bonus episode . . . This content is for Christ and Pop Culture members only. If you'd like to continue reading it, either...
View ArticlePersuasion 203 BONUS | Interview with Sam Haist
Listen to Hannah’s full interview with Sam Haist in this special members-only bonus episode . . . This content is for Christ and Pop Culture members only. If you'd like to continue reading it, either...
View ArticleSomething Wicked, Something Holy: Light and Darkness in Something Wicked This...
Evil grows in the dark. And, sometimes, Halloween comes to town. Horror, as a genre, works in strange ways. There are killer clowns and gruesome torture to test teenage mettle. Then, there’s the quiet,...
View ArticleLet’s Make America Truly Great Again: Revisiting Reconstruction
“Make America Great Again” is undeniably a culturally polarizing phrase and phenomenon that has been remarketed and recycled from past presidential campaigns. The white letters emblazoned on the fiery...
View ArticleBoys State, Starring Our Own Malnourished Political Imaginations
“I think he’s a fantastic politician. But I don’t think a fantastic politician is a compliment either.” These sound like the weary words of a veteran political analyst, but they’re actually the...
View ArticleMaybe the Real War on Christmas Was the Friends We Made along the Way
Every other Wednesday in Fads!Crazes!Panics!, Luke T. Harrington looks at one of the random obsessions to have gripped the public mind in the recent past, and tries, in vain, to make sense of it all....
View ArticleA Hidden Life, Patriotism, and a Rightly Ordered Love for America
Every other Tuesday in Storied, K. B. Hoyle explores the ways our cultural narratives act on us individually and in society as a whole. The past several days have felt like an intensification of the...
View ArticleYes, Black America Tried to Tell Y’all
How did we get here?” “This is not America!” “I didn’t think it would be this bad.” You’ve probably either said or heard plenty of people saying these things in your community after the assault on our...
View ArticleSo You Just Found Out You’re in a Cult: A Socratic Dialogue
Every other Wednesday in Fads!Crazes!Panics!, Luke T. Harrington looks at one of the random obsessions to have gripped the public mind in the recent past, and tries, in vain, to make sense of it all....
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We Never Quite Figured out What “Political Correctness” Is, but We’re Still...
Every other Wednesday in Fads!Crazes!Panics!, Luke T. Harrington looks at one of the random obsessions to have gripped the public mind in the recent past, and tries, in vain, to make sense of it all....
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Black History Month Roundup, 2021
This roundup is neither an exhaustive list of newsworthy events or releases in February 2021 nor a comprehensive list of everything worthy of coverage. These are but a few highlights worth exploring. I...
View ArticleKilroy Was Basically Everywhere, at Least until World War II Ended
Every other Wednesday in Fads!Crazes!Panics!, Luke T. Harrington looks at one of the random obsessions to have gripped the public mind in the recent past, and tries, in vain, to make sense of it all....
View ArticleNo, Brainwashing Isn’t a Thing. So I Guess Your Problems Are Your Own Fault.
Every other Wednesday in Fads!Crazes!Panics!, Luke T. Harrington looks at one of the random obsessions to have gripped the public mind in the recent past, and tries, in vain, to make sense of it all....
View ArticleWhat It Means to Be Enough
As the Summer Olympics drew to a close, so too did the angst over Simone Biles’s withdrawal from several of her gymnastics events. After mental struggles left her incapacitated, drawing both criticism...
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CAPC’s Most-Read Articles of 2021
Each year when December 31 arrives, there’s a collective lament over the speed of time. The complaints seem a bit louder in this pandemic era, since many of the usual markers that help us keep time...
View Article1981 vs. 2021: Searching for Salvation
1981 was an amazing year, chiefly because I was born in it. Less notable happenings like Reagan’s election, the advent of MTV, and DeLorean’s DMC car rocked the news. Coupled with those events, media...
View ArticleDallas Cowboys: “America’s Team” Indeed—and That’s Not Good News
Full disclosure: I am not a Dallas Cowboys fan. I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, I’ve coached and played football all my life, my current residence is about 40 minutes from the Cowboys’ AT&T...
View ArticleThe Aviator: How Memory, Love, and Art Transform the World
History, we often imagine, is made by great people, those who have a vision for how the world could be different and see it through. The popularity of 40 under 40 lists bears this out. Christendom too...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Listen to Black Women, the Conscience of America
At a speech in Los Angeles in 1962, Malcolm X observed, “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected...
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When You Think God Is on Your Side: The Fall of the Russian Empire
Russia has over the past two weeks gone to war — and so far, it seems to be losing. At least two generals have been killed, up to four thousand Russian soldiers have also died, and Ukrainians seem to...
View Article“Am I Not Free?” The Freedom to Forgo Our Rights for the Sake of Love
The death toll from the COVID pandemic in the United States has passed a horrifying one million, a staggering figure on any scale, but especially when compared against other parts of the world....
View ArticleHow Partisan Politics Interferes with Our Moviegoing Discernment
During my undergraduate studies in video production, one textbook included a story about a legal dispute. Two parties argued over whether or not one of them could erect a business sign on a busy...
View ArticleBurned by Our Heroes: From Game of Thrones to Christian Leaders
HBO’s House of the Dragon, a prequel to their Game of Thrones, premiered to a record number of viewers—nearly ten million across platforms. In some ways, the massive audience was a surprise, given...
View ArticleKaitlyn Schiess’s The Ballot and the Bible Reveals the Complex History of...
Ask any number of people if religion and politics have grown too close for comfort these days, and it’s safe to say that a majority of them would answer with a resounding “Yes.” And they’d probably...
View Article1983 vs. 2023: When Is Revival Right for America?
Nineteen eighty-three was an amazing year, chiefly because my wife was born in it. Less notable happenings—like a barely averted nuclear war, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” and The A-Team’s debut...
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Baggins/Gamgee ’24: What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Politics
As a disclaimer, I’d already conceived of this article and title before Viggo Mortensen donned a Frodo/Sam ’24 t-shirt on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. My friend Brandon Knight, of William Carey...
View ArticleLiving for Truth in the Age of AI
In 1999’s The Matrix, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) brings the newly freed Neo (Keanu Reeves) up to speed with a history lesson. At some point in the early 21st century, Morpheus explains, “all of...
View ArticleOur Country Is a House Deceived and Divided
We’ve become a tribal people because our environment has become one based on deception . . . This content is for Christ and Pop Culture members only. If you'd like to continue reading it, either log in...
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Alien vs. Predator Day, The Consolation of Philosophy, and a Certain Election
“So what good is power if it is a source of constant worry and fear? Like any of the rest of us, kings would like to live out their lives without these kinds of worries, but they cannot. And they...
View Article1984 vs. 2024: What Does Real Freedom Look Like?
Our cultural moment simultaneously adored the ’80s with artifacts—like this year’s Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and Chappell Roan creating ’80s synth pop—and relived the decade with presidential...
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