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How Christ and Pop Culture Serves the Church

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 1:11 pm By Alan Noble

"Our desire is to edify the Church and witness to the world through thoughtful, biblical, winsome, truthful cultural criticism." Read more

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Pajama Boy is Everything That’s Wrong with American Manhood! (and Other Misconceptions)

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 12:27 pm By Amy Lepine Peterson

How did an ad for Obamacare mutate into a debate over masculinity? Read more

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Is Apple’s 12 Days of Gifts Blurring Our Vision of Epiphany?

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 8:11 am By Marybeth Davis Baggett

Apple's holiday promotion provides Christians with a unique opportunity to consider how the blending of the sacred with market forces blurs our vision. Read more

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Cruising on a Sea of White Privilege

Last updated on: January 6, 2014 at 7:25 am By Brad Williams

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

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2014-01-03T11:19:01-07:00

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1. Breaking Bad: “Implicating the Rest of Us in His Fall” #CaPC25

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 11:19 am By Nick Olson

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #2: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City #1: Breaking Bad I’m not sure of the next time our investment in the state of a man’s soul will become the focus of a television cultural phenomenon quite like what we saw with Breaking Bad’s final season. Each Sunday night over the course of the eight episode run was an Event. Fans and television... Read more

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2014-01-03T11:19:37-07:00

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2. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City: “The Difficulty of Believing in God in the Modern Age”

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 11:19 am By Drew Dixon

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #3: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire #2: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City When I first heard Vampire Weekend’s previous effort, Contra, I found it pretentious and indulgent. No matter how much friends of mine championed their music, I couldn’t get over how cheap it all felt. Modern Vampires of the City still feels a little cheap: it asks huge questions and blows them off... Read more

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3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: “We are the Audience” #CaPC25

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 10:05 am By D.L. Mayfield

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #4: Before Midnight #3: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire We watch it all, the dystopian future, the brave teenage heroine, the heartbreaking love triangle, the pathos, the greed, the cruelty, the injustice, and we are entertained. We should not be so quick to dismiss this, the truth that we are entertained as we watch people, children, battle to the death. But we are not gleeful. After... Read more

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4. Before Midnight: “What Happens After” #CaPC25

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 10:09 am By Jennifer Clark

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #5: Gone Home (PC/MAC) #4: Before Midnight Before Midnight is a heartwrenching look at a relationship developed without a solid foundation. The third and final installment of Richard Linklater’s Before series, the film is incredibly honest and intimate as Jesse and Celine finally come to terms with the realities of their relationship. The couple, now in their forties, have had twin girls and are still... Read more

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5. Gone Home: “To be Fearful, Alone, and Disenfranchised” #CaPC25

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 8:07 am By Richard Clark

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #6: Twelve Years a Slave #5: Gone Home (PC/MAC) For a long time, games have had the potential to make us better people. They’ve carried the promise of instilling empathy in the player. They’ve offerred the means for creators to instill positive values in those who consume their work. But for a long time, those things weren’t realities. This year, we saw the release of several games that finally... Read more

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6. Twelve Years a Slave: “Little Relief for the Moviegoer” #CaPC25

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 7:17 am By Matthew Towles

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of 2013. Previous #7: Welcome to Night Vale #6: Twelve Years a Slave “…and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free…” I saw 12 Years a Slave right before exams began, almost as a break from all the grading I had been doing and still had to do. I had read the story of Solomon Nothrup years ago, so I was quite familiar... Read more

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