Breaking News: ‘Faith-Based’ Films Take On Hollywood

So Rick Santorum wants to help make spiritual-type movies, yet good ones. Where have we heard this before? Where haven’t we?

Going Beyond ‘Yay! It’s a Christ-Figure’

What To Do When a Family Member Posts Something Stupid on Facebook

“Instead of neat place to spy on people with permission, Facebook has become a place where people go to wear tin foil heads and complain about the government.”

CaPC Magazine, Issue #7: When Good Christians Make Bad Art

Maybe Social Media Doesn’t Ruin Everything?

The Science Behind Effectively Sharing Your Faith

“The ultimate apologetic is the combination of our relationship with God and our relationships with each other, intentional relationships in which the life-changing truth of our Faith is made manifest for all to see and consider.”

Maybe Barbie Will Blossom into a Real Girl Someday

The Future as Myth: Celebrating 100 Years of Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith is a writer who reminds us that Christians have been and still can be innovators in the arts.

ELSEWHERE: More Unworldly than Fundies?!

Elsewhere: Against Positive and Encouraging Music

Virgin Tales and the Romance Prosperity Gospel

If these guys are so interested in purity, why can’t they keep their own message pure?

Reclaiming Questions in an Age of Skepticism: The End of Our Exploring

You Keep Your Concealer and I’ll Keep My Freckles

“It’s almost too easy to buy into the culture’s slanted view of beauty, believing that freckles somehow lessen a person’s beauty.”

The Kiddy Pool: Andrew Solomon’s ‘Far From the Tree’

“The challenge, it seems, is learning to love our children for who they are, for who they are meant to be, and not as vessels or torchbearers for our own dreams and desires.”

Superman: Not Just a Man, but a Just Man

“Whether or not Christians feel comfortable thinking of Superman as a Christ-figure, we can at least be safe in understanding him as an idealized portrayal of the just man.”

ELSEWHERE: Patriotism and Christian Engagement