Persuasion 201 BONUS | Interview with Sam Perry
Listen to Hannah’s full interview with Sam Perry 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 202 | Toeing the Party Line
Perhaps during this series you’ve become open to the idea that political engagement is an avenue for kingdom flourishing to bring about the common good. And perhaps you’ve also clarified the sort of...
View ArticlePersuasion 203 | Just Preach the Gospel
Racial reckoning, a threatening pandemic, devastating wildfires… our country is practically pulling apart at the seams. In the middle of all this, we’re facing the usual fervor associated with a...
View ArticleCompassion (&) Conviction, Free for CAPC Members
Christ and Pop Culture members receive a digital copy of Compassion (&) Conviction, until December 31, 2020, through our partnership with InterVarsity Press. It’s an election year. The very words...
View ArticlePersuasion 204 | Don’t Be So Political, with Kathryn Freeman
With the amount of turmoil that’s typically associated with political conversation and engagement, it can be very tempting to look for a reprieve. Every issue truly is connected to the common good...
View ArticlePersuasion 205 | Don’t Waste Your Vote
Our country is facing a crucial crossroads… or so we’ve been told, in myriad ways, from both sides of the political spectrum. We need new leadership or more of the same… we need more justices of one...
View ArticlePersuasion 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....
View ArticleWe 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....
View ArticleBlack 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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