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December 2012

December 05, 2012

Tell the Wolves I’m Home: A Deep, Deep Love Story

"God tames us, drawing us into an embrace that asserts at once our uniqueness and...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Good Ok Bad presents “Great Graphic Novels for Kids”

Our master illustrator provides age-appropriate graphic novel recommendations for the kiddos.

November 07, 2012

As Biblical as Apple Pie: Rachel Held Evans’s A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Carissa Smith read Rachel Held Evans's new book, and found it heavy on the stunts...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

All Hallow’s Read: Why We Should Read Scary Stories for Halloween

Erin Newcomb makes a case for the virtue, humanness, and theological richness of scary stories,...

October 17, 2012

Science Fiction and Theology: A Match Made in Heaven?

What are some of the theological issues that science fiction can effectively explore?

October 15, 2012

Cosmic Horror vs. Holy Terror: Christians Can Find Value and Meaning in Scary Movies

I would suspect that the "horror" genre is one of the most unpopular genres --...

September 2012

September 03, 2012

Labor of Love: Death of a Salesman & The Problem With Success

Guest writer, Karen Swallow Prior explains how laboring toward the American Dream can turn into...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

Not Fit for Dinner: Rand's Influence on Ryan

"When we reject a thinker’s foundational principles, it is our job to carefully probe the...

August 07, 2012

Called to Account by David Foster Wallace: The Pale King Wins the (CaPC) Pulitzer!

Examining the three Pulitzer finalists reveals an interesting trend.

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 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...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Sex & Thrones: Four Christian Views on Sex in “Game of Thrones”

Four Christ and Pop Culture writers look at the way George R.R. Martin portrays sex...

June 25, 2012

Citizenship Confusion: Why Christians Should Read Disturbing, Dark, and Secular Fiction

"Sometimes we have to read hard, ugly, offensive, depressing things to understand our world, and...

June 11, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Writers in the Church

"So do Christian writers bite the hand that feeds (or at least nurtures) us? Certainly...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Christ and the Gothic

"Like all fantastic fiction, the Gothic novel at its best serves to expand our imaginations,...

May 21, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Is Science Fiction un-Christian?

"[T]he presence of humanity and the prevalence of humanitarian themes throughout the best science fiction...

May 07, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Grace, Love and Literary Masterpieces

"Beloved books, too, tend to depend heavily on grace."

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: The Case for Franny and Zooey

"Question: do we really need to give teenagers a book ["The Catcher in the Rye"]...

April 16, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: NOT Finding God in Literature

"To treat literature as it is (a story) rather than converting it into something it...

April 09, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Mornings in Jenin and the Trouble with Meta-Narratives

"Growing up is often a process of realizing that anybody I consider the enemy, anybody...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: Was Battle Royale the Original Hunger Games?

"Takami's and Collins's books are both indictments of the complacency necessary to create a culture...

March 19, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: The Image of Christ in The Hunger Games

"As I read The Hunger Games trilogy, I found it increasingly hard to ignore the...

March 12, 2012

Books Besides the Bible: The Fault in Our Stars

"Why would someone from an old-fashioned religion want to read Green's book? Literature, ultimately, is...

March 08, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Mother Night" (Vonnegut, 1961)

"The novel offers a parable on the cost of losing your ethical identity, or more...

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Age of Innocence" (Wharton, 1920)

The novel’s tone is thoroughly ironic, as Archer continually misreads as progressive the very traits...

January 2012

January 19, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Crying of Lot 49" (Pynchon, 1966)

It’s a kind of mystery novel, so you are tempted to figure out the puzzle...

January 16, 2012

Our Ten Favorite Graphic Novels of 2011

CaPC's illustrator, Seth Hahne, shares his favorite examples of a burgeoning medium.

January 02, 2012

Our Favorite Five Books of 2011

Carissa Smith shares an idiosyncratic list of the best five books of 2011.

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: Beowulf

"The poem reminds us of a culture’s fragility, not only through its contents but by...

December 01, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Gulliver's Travels"

Jonathan Swift's satire helps us see what's wrong not only with the world but with...

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