The Difficult Enjoinder to Rejoice on Mother’s Day

The trend to combine mourning and rejoicing on Mother’s Day, to extend kindness to women who find this day painful, may actually undercut our good intentions.

Seeing and Believing: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON + Summer Movie Preview

Puny humans Wade and Kevin are joined by Christianity Today‘s Jessica Gibson to review the new AVENGERS flick.

LOL Interwebz: The SHOCKING Follow-up That THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO READ!

The jokes aren’t the point, and neither are the lies; something is satire if it’s being used to criticize stupidity or vices.

Mad Men: Seeking Shangri-La

In the Mad Men universe, Shangri-La is what everyone has always been looking for. It is paradise.

The CAPC Digest #13: Listening Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet

‘Jesus, Bread, and Chocolate’: Authentic Faith and Confused Consumerism

Does the hand-crafted movement shape faith to culture or shape culture to faith?

Blind Spots: Seeing the Church’s Diversity of Experience, Free for CAPC Members

All too often, our conversations break down, our relationships fail, and even our unity is ruptured because we’re operating without an awareness of our blind spots.

‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Is a Gourmet Cheeseburger for Christian Fans

The Avengers can’t be stopped, and their latest big-budget adventure shows the cinematic superhero genre at its zenith.

Persuasion: Mama Mia!

Listening Closer: Raised from the Shadows, Belle and Sebastian’s Resurrection Song

For Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, the story has been similar—he’s found, in testifying of his struggles, the inspiration for art that meets people in the suffering and gives them confidence, joy, and reason to hope.

Grieving Through Pop Culture

Cultural artifacts offered words and longings for which I was unable to articulate in the throes of my own suffering and doubt.

Sunday Oldskool: Harrison Lemke on Vince Staples

Mad Men: A Mournful Victory

This season’s pervasive tone is “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” with characters returning left and right—usually to tie up some loose ends and then untie some others.

Call for Pitches: A Matter of Conscience

We’re currently looking for feature articles on the theme of “A Matter of Conscience” for an upcoming issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

“Here I Raise Mine Ebenezer”: Ancient and Modern Outrage

Ebenezers are de facto monuments to mark occasions when God shows up. And today, Ebenezers are everywhere, thanks to the digital age and social media.

Seeing and Believing: Reader Questions + A Conversation with Director Brian Ivie