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    Playing God Till You Run out of Cake

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    People will always seek the power to advance and improve the world; but how far is too far?

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    Finding Our Hopefuls When Caught by Giant Despair

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    If the sinless Savior desired community in a time of suffering, how much more do we need friends?

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    The Morgan Grimes Theory

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    The strength that comes from friendship is the grounding force that gives me the courage to do what I otherwise could not, that enables me to persevere through circumstances that I otherwise could not.

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    Can Transhumanism Lead Us Back to Orthodoxy?

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    Some Christians are afraid transhumanism is just Gnosticism in a new form. But what if that’s backward?

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Stranger Things and Our Quest for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

Stranger Things contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary, the normal with the supernatural, and the mundane with the unexpected.

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Podcast · Seeing and Believing

Seeing And Believing: ‘The Fits’ And ‘Jason Bourne’

Wade and Kevin review ‘The Fits’ and ‘Jason Bourne’ this week on Seeing & Believing.

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General Culture

Tugging on False Gospel Threads

It is good, therefore, to see the big picture and consider how our faith might have been woven with some threads of heresy.

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In ABZÛ, You Don’t Just Admire Beauty—You Create It

ABZÛ’s unfamiliarity emphasizes a deeper wonder behind beauty that we seldom acknowledge in our lives, much less in our games.

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Podcast · The 25

The CaPC 25 Episode 21: Chance the Rapper’s ‘Coloring Book’, ‘Dark Souls III’, And ‘Firewatch’

Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book, Dark Souls 3, and Firewatch are all up for nomination on this weeks episode of The 25 where political incorrectness and falsehoods abound this week.

Presidential Daughters

Columns · General Culture

The Kiddy Pool: Presidential Daughters

We want to believe that our presidential choice shares our values when it comes to future generations, however unlikely that is in reality.

Miranda Lambert

Music

Women Behaving Badly: What Miranda Lambert’s ‘Vice’ Is Really Telling Us

Country star Miranda Lambert gives us insight into sexual freedom for women: does it mean behaving as badly as men?

Unshaken

Literature

Unshaken: Real Faith in Our Faithful God by Crawford W. Loritts Jr., Free for CaPC Members

Crawford W. Loritts Jr.’s Unshaken: Real Faith in Our Faithful God is available free to CaPC members this month.

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Film

The Babadook Shows That Sometimes, Self-Care Isn’t Strong Enough

The only way we can reckon with the evil in the world is to find ways to bear the risk and pain together.

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Persuasion · Podcast

Persuasion: Turn That Frown… Into Creative Genius?

Many creative geniuses have been known to struggle with debilitating depression and overwhelming emotions. Are those emotional depths the source of the creative brilliance? A research study in Denmark has[…]

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Music

The Neverland Hope in Chance the Rapper’s “Same Drugs”

As Chance and his hometown quietly take turns sharing their sides of the story of his maturation, we begin to wonder who really changed—Wendy or Pan?

Top 3 films of 2016 so far

Podcast · Seeing and Believing

Seeing and Believing: Top 3 Films And TV Shows of 2016 So Far

The Top 3 films of 2016 are weighed and measured by Kevin and special guests Alissa Wilkinson and Jeffrey Overstreet.

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Call for Pitches: Utopian Yearnings

Write for our magazine! Submit a pitch for a feature article on the theme of “utopian yearnings.”

Book of Strange New Things

Literature

The Longest Distance Relationship: Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber’s science fiction novel, The Book of Strange New Things, dramatizes profound gulf between its characters and between God and humanity.

The Ark Park

CAPC Digest · Podcast

The CAPC Digest: The Ark Park and the Gospel

The Ark Park from Answers in Genesis is open for business and E. Stephen joins Drew to dispel some of the myths and confirm certain truths about the park, the organization, and to see if creationism is a hill to die on.

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