Seeing and Believing 170: Eli Roth’s The House with a Clock in Its Walls and Yann Demange’s White Boy Rick

Steve Norton and Emmanuel Noisette join Kevin this week to talk about The House with a Clock in Its Walls and White Boy Rick.

Thanos the Maniac

Thanos is a maniac in the sense used by G. K. Chesterton in his classic work Orthodoxy.

Lamenting the Death of the Small iPhone

Choosing the iPhone SE was a way for me to practice the spiritual discipline of simplicity.

Fantasy vs. Reality through the Lens of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

The beautiful thing about intentionality is that when you reach out, you just might find that people reach back.

Persuasion 146: Let’s Talk

With all the talking happening in the world today, you might think it best to keep your own thoughts and words to yourself. But would society be better served by silence?

Scientism and Secularism by J. P. Moreland, Free for CAPC Members

Christians need to grow in both the knowledge that science can provide us about God’s world, as well as the reasons why science isn’t the only path to knowledge.

Seeing and Believing 169: Shane Black’s The Predator and Our Fall/Winter Movie Preview!

Wade and Kevin tell us what films are most worth getting excited about after reviewing Shane Black’s attempt to reboot the Predator franchise.

Finding Truth in Fantasy Realms

The exploration of good versus evil is one of the things that makes fantasy so important.

Child of My Sorrow: An Exercise in Sadness by The Chairman Dances

With lush arrangements featuring everything from piano to saxophone to perfectly paced percussion, the sonic experience of Child of My Sorrow is, well, fun.

The Bold Type and the Secular Default

Four episodes into the second season, The Bold Type wove religion and faith into its storyline.

Gen Z’s Biggest Legacy: Has Social Media Hacked a Generation?

Gen Z stumbled into social media blindly, but now we’re tasked with the responsibility of making sure that everything what happened to us doesn’t happen to our own kids.

Seeing and Believing 168: Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching and Josh & Jonathan Baker’s Kin

Wade and Kevin dip into genre cinema to see what they find with Searching starring John Cho. Then the guys take a look at Sci-fi thriller Kin.

Raise Your Voice by Kathy Khang, Free for CAPC Members

Balancing compassion with firmness, Khang leads her readers through the current morass of social media, and offers a thoughtful and constructive way forward for those who want to do more than seethe on the sidelines.

Disney Sells Us an Idealized Derivative of Reality (and That’s Not All Bad)

The real Disney World—the physical space we enter—is an idealized derivative of imagined pasts, futures, and fantasies of the actual world.

Seeing and Believing 167: An Interview with Corin Hardy (The Nun) and Better Call Saul Season 4

Kick off September with Corin Hardy, director of The Nun. Then Wade and Kevin return AMC’s Better Call Saul.

Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Being Known in Netflix’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

This desire, this need, to be known and loved is instilled in all of us. It’s God-given, and it draws us to God.