CAPC’s Most-Read Articles of 2017

A look at the articles published over the past 365 days shows which cultural happenings and artifacts lay claim to 2017.

Trauma, Failure, and Lingering Evil in Twin Peaks

Lynch offers a sort of witness bearing that is desperately needed in an age as numb and distracted as our own.

Cultivating Sympathy: A Christmas Prince and a Netflix Faux Pas

Those who are lonely during this season don’t need to be mocked or called out or even lightly teased for their viewing habits.

CAPC Magazine, December 2017: We Are Family (Sort Of)

How will you relate to your people this year? Get some ideas from this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

No, Christmas Isn’t Secretly Pagan: A Very Merry D-List Saints Christmas Special (For the Whole Family)

The point is, it’s Christmas (or actually Advent, but since no one seems to understand the difference between Christmas and Advent, whatevs, call it Christmas if you want, sure)!

Seeing and Believing 136: Steven Spielberg’s The Post and Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water

Wade and Kevin close out 2017 with reviews of two of this winter’s most anticipated films: Spielberg’s ‘The Post’, and Del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water.’

Rogue One: An Advent Story

Advent is a season to reflect on the hope of Christ’s coming, a season to practice how not to be complacent, the very thing we see in Rogue One.

Steven Spielberg’s Cinema of the Sublime

Spiritual longing typifies Spielberg’s approach as a storyteller and may account for at least some of his blockbuster appeal.

Persuasion 121: When Your Christmas Joy Crumbles

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson discuss when your Christmas joy crumbles by putting pressure on ourselves to have a picture-perfect Christmas.

A Supernatural Neighbor

The benevolence of the spirits in My Neighbor Totoro serves as a reminder that the spiritual realm—though mysterious and unlike our own—is not something to fear.

“We Live in the Dream”: Seeing through a Glass Darkly in Twin Peaks

We know the soul-ache of mystery; so does Twin Peaks.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is Risky, Explosive, and Beautifully Brazen

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not only what many audiences need, but how they need it.

Seeing and Believing 135: Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi and James Franco’s The Disaster Artist

The most revered film franchise in history joins forces with the most ridiculed movie in history to rule the galaxy or at least the podcast this week.

The Sinner Reminds Us That Trauma Is Always Communal

We are inherently relational creatures, and when we suffer, we suffer communally. Trauma is everyone’s problem.

Persuasion 120: Is There Hope for Those on the Naughty List?

Erin and Hannah talk how we can pigeonhole ourselves into a “naughty” category during the holidays while forgetting our freedom from sin.

Sin Demands a Reckoning in Thor: Ragnarok

On whose graves, and whose suffering, is our greatness built?