The Suffering Service of Jim Hopper
And, as inevitably as Hopper strives against the darkness of the Upside Down, he also struggles to choose the higher goods before him.
Thirsty for the Galaxy’s Edge: A Dispatch from Star Wars Land
There’s an insatiable appetite behind this ever-increasing desire for deeper escape and stories that never end.
‘Bigger on the Inside’: How Gateway Fantasy Gives Space to Our Longings
No one who journeys through a magic portal or gateway or liminal space in such a story believes the world or worlds on the other side will be smaller.
Seeing and Believing 214 | Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light and Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Wade and Kevin review Blinded by the Light, the latest film from Gurinder Chadha. They also take a look at Richard Linklater’s, Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
Empathy, Compassion, and Giving Back in the Geek Community
Dungeons and Dragons is a game deeply rooted in empathy; seeing it used to urge compassion should inspire us all.
In Search of the Common Good by Jake Meador, Free for CAPC Members
Modern man and woman are acting out lives bereft of meaning, wonder, and purposeful work. Meador posits a better way, offering a vision of life and community that draws us more deeply to one another, to our Creator, and more deeply to ourselves.
Seeing and Believing 213 | Andre Ovredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Our Top 5 Films of 2009
Gather around the campfire, as we revisit Andre Ovredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and the Top 5 films from 2009.
Believing the Unbelievable in Amazon’s Good Omens
Herein lies a tricky challenge for the Christian viewer of Good Omens: how comfortable am I suspending disbelief to enjoy an imagined story that flirts with my most preciously held beliefs?
The Monster at the End of this Book, Arrival, and How Nonlinear Stories Help Us Think
If you know there is a monster at the end of the story, it takes great bravery to turn those pages.
Seeing and Believing 212 | Lulu Wang’s The Farewell and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir
Seeing & Believing features something (slightly) old and something (very) new with the two semi-autobiographical films being reviewed on this episode.
Literary B-Sides, the Legacy of T. S. Eliot, and Kenotic Art
It would seem that T. S. Eliot left an unequivocally Christian literary legacy. But did he?
Mythos & Ink Academy Fantasy and Sci-Fi Writing Course, Discounted for CAPC Members
“Novel Structure According to Harry Potter” is a ten-week course designed to instruct in the storytelling prowess of J. K. Rowling, using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as the case study.
Seeing and Believing 211 | Once Upon a Time…. in Hollywood and Them That Follow
Wade and Kevin review Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film, “Once Upon A Time…. In Hollywood” and then take the country roads to review “Them That Follow.”
Strange Flourishing: The Christian Moment in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Hepburn’s book examines the major resurgence of orthodox Christian faith among British writers in mid-20th century.
