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July 2012

July 18, 2012

The Female Gaze: Summer Reading for Jr. Princesses

"Some of my favorite fictional heroines as a girl were, in fact, princesses—girls with sass,...

July 17, 2012

The Minority Report: Is YOLO Worth Redeeming?

"I don't intend to start a campaign to redeem the phrase, but I do hope...

July 16, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: It Takes a Village (of Time-Traveling Dinosaurs)

"It takes a village, they say, and that message rings true all the way from...

July 16, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Meriting Our Daily Bread

"The money I receive as payment for work is a blessing from God, an act...

July 13, 2012

Sacred Space: Is Arizona Persecuting Home Bible Studies?

"If you want to reach your neighbor for Christ, blocking his driveway twice a week...

July 12, 2012

Under the Sun: Patriotism Inside the American Church

Is this seemingly inextricable connection between patriotism and worship something old or new?

July 09, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Waiting on Faith and a Fictional Goose

"So much of church liturgy is about waiting, and my toddler is practicing with more...

July 06, 2012

Sacred Space: Towards Freedom of Religion, for Everyone

"If you only believe in the freedom of religion for yourself and those who think...

July 05, 2012

Mixed Signals: Jedi Mind Tricks of Advertising Really Do Work

Truly good advertising works so well that people don’t even realize what hit them.

July 04, 2012

The Female Gaze: A Time for Justice

"What kind of a nation are we if we cannot protect our own?"

July 02, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Having It All…Or Not

"It is still anathema is this culture -- where 'having it all' gets defined by...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Under the Sun: Depoliticizing the Pulpit

"These historical complications do not on their own invalidate Olasky and Piper’s position. They do,...

June 28, 2012

Mixed Signals: Your Life as a PR Campaign

"Instead of living life for the joy of living it, we set up moments that...

June 25, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Karen Klein, Jerry Sandusky, and Redemption

I don’t know what kind of redemption is possible for any of the players in...

June 22, 2012

Sacred Space: Why didn't John Piper Endorse the Marriage Amendment?

"Piper cannot go into the voting booth and pull the lever for them, and he...

June 21, 2012

Mixed Signals: McDonald's, Photoshop, and Why We're Lovin' It

"We have long known what the advertising machine would churn out: images of uber-perfection to...

June 21, 2012

Under the Sun: C.S. Lewis, Swimsuits, and Social Propriety

"Even if I know the history of a cultural practice—if I correctly classify a problem...

June 18, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: You have no Idea how Biased You are, but I Do. You’re Welcome.

"We all have biases, and our efforts to rid ourselves of them through education and...

June 15, 2012

How Having Children Changed Us

CaPC contributors share how becoming a parent affected their cultural habits.

June 13, 2012

The Female Gaze: The Body Beautiful

How much of your body do you save exclusively for the person given to you...

June 12, 2012

The Minority Report: You Are Not Special

"Our culture of helicopter parents and constant praise has the potential to produce a generation...

June 11, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: The Power of Complements and Egalitarians

"The marriage dynamic taught by Paul is actually more radical than Evans argues and some...

June 11, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Facebook for the Whole Family?

"Convincing kids—and their parents—to sign up the whole family for Facebook isn’t just about making...

June 07, 2012

Mixed Signals: What Your Facebook Likes Say about Jesus

"Liking a page is so easy, so simple, a click doesn’t feel like an important...

June 06, 2012

The Female Gaze: To Eat or Not to Eat

"Our culture does its best to place women in bondage to food, and in bondage...

June 05, 2012

The Minority Report: Balancing Sex Education

"If we would take the time to carefully consider such motivations, we might find that...

June 04, 2012

Me, Jessica Simpson, and The Postpartum Road to Recovery

"Why do we love to look at pregnant women but still expect new mothers to...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Alienation and the Christian Ethic of Shopping at Threadless, Etsy, and Trades of Hope

"Our contemporary market creates a number of problems for Christians. Primarily, it alienates the worker...

May 25, 2012

The Televangelist: Community's Advanced Observation and Introduction to Participation

We all face the complicated relationship between bemused observation and earnest participation.

May 21, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Breaking the Shopping Habit

"The practice of shopping as entertainment can have serious consequences for believers"

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