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January 2014

January 17, 2014

Journey through the Judgement House

Martyn Jones visits a "Judgement House" designed to scare people into acknowledging their mortality, and...

January 16, 2014

How the Church Resegregated Schools in the South

We like to imagine that segregation is ancient history. Tyler Glodjo reminds us it's not.

January 15, 2014

How I Changed My Mind About Abortion

Number 3 in our CaPCMag Countdown: Julia Herrington has a remarkable change of heart.

January 14, 2014

The Body of Christ, the Balloons of Salvation: On Christian Balloon Twisting

Number 4: Balloon twisting for Jesus is an easy topic for mockery, but Martyn Jones...

January 13, 2014

A Life of Two Stories: An Interview with Joshua Kemble

Number 5: Alan Noble interviews graphic novelist Joshua Kemble about his conversion, his art, and...

January 10, 2014

Jennifer Knapp and the Long Road Back

Number 6: Addie Zierman describes her journey from the center of Christian Culture to outskirts...

January 09, 2014

Christmas, in Four Movies

Number 7: We experience traditions through the stories we tell each other. D.L. Mayfield reflects...

January 08, 2014

Manliness Reconsidered

Number 8: Amongst fervent evangelical debate about "manliness," Ben Barltett offers a measured and biblical...

January 07, 2014

Noskalgia: A Sobering Reunion With Five Iron Frenzy

#9 in our Top #CaPCMag Features of 2013: A Five Iron Frenzy reunion tour concert...

January 06, 2014

Cruising on a Sea of White Privilege

#10 in our Top #CaPCMag Features of 2013: an attempt to escape toil only makes...

January 02, 2014

Introducing the #CaPC25: A List of Our Favorite Things of 2013

"All this week we at Christ and Pop Culture will unveil our 25 favorite things...

January 01, 2014

New Year’s Resolutions as an “Expectation of Faith”

"While biological, historical, political, and social regularities exist -- these are not mere figments of...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Todd Starnes Sold Us a War on Christianity. We Bought It.

"Starnes sells us what we want to hear. We want to believe that we are...

December 26, 2013

Dances with Horses: One Year After Gangnam Style, a Former Resident of Gangnam Reflects

"Gangnam Style" presents itself to us as a valuable cultural barometer, a textual window into...

December 24, 2013

How the Grinch Graced Christmas

The Common Grace goodness of Dr. Seuss's holiday story.

December 23, 2013

The Misguided Longing to be “Home Alone”

"Kevin McCallister’s goofy separation and reunion with his family speaks with remarkable perceptivity to loneliness...

December 20, 2013

Why You Should Lay Off the “Santa Claus is Real” Stuff (Because He’s Not)

The Santa myth is awkwardly forced into intersecting with the "real" world in ways that...

December 19, 2013

Have You Misunderstood Apple’s New Holiday Commercial?

Let's not fall into the trap of believing that the moment technology is involved, we...

December 18, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: White Santa and White Jesus at Home

"It’s not just that Santa is most frequently depicted as white, it’s that so many...

December 17, 2013

Why You Should Believe in Santa Claus (Even If He Doesn’t Exist)

The imagination is the highest faculty and, like other faculties, it does not spring fully...

December 16, 2013

Christmas Can Make It Hard to Remember That ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

"It surprises me how often I need to be reminded that Christmas should be a...

December 16, 2013

The Problem with the Daniel Diet

"Although the Daniel Diet is helping Christians become more conscientious about their health, the trend...

December 12, 2013

Science Fiction’s Dark Star: Alfred Bester at 100

Alfred Bester demolished the conventions of his genre, but in the process, his writing reached...

December 12, 2013

Aronofsky’s Noah: Light, as Refracted through Water

"We don't want films that cynically exploit Scripture, but what do we want instead?"

December 11, 2013

Hip Hop, Beauty, and the Eye of the Beholder

"The question we ought to ask about rap is not whether it proclaims God's nature...

December 10, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Katniss Everdeen and the Greatest Love

"The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds...

December 05, 2013

Living in a World of “Little Boys With Their Porno”

A deep cut off of Arcade Fire's new album acknowledges a cultural shift among young...

December 04, 2013

Walking with the Dead: An Existential End to the Governor’s Hope

"The Governor can’t change because his experiences tell him redemption isn't possible."

December 04, 2013

About Time: A Romantic Comedy That’s Actually About Love

About Time might seem like a simple rom-com, but guest writer Marybeth Davis Baggett finds...

December 03, 2013

Is the virgin birth impossible? "Yes," says science.

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