Monthly Archives: December 2017

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

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

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

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

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)!

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.’

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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