Dec 31, 2020
CAPC’s Most-Read Articles of 2020
Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2020.
Dec 30, 2020
Mixed Blessing by Chandra Crane, Free for CAPC Members
To read Mixed Blessing is to explore the pains and triumphs of multiethnicity––to be seen, for readers who are multiethnic, and to understand, for those who are not.
Dec 29, 2020
Wonder Woman 1984’s Good True Story
WW84 asks us to confront the truth that while we have some desires that are good, even good desires can become dangerously disordered.
Dec 28, 2020
How the Muppets Helped Me Contemplate My Mortality This Christmas
Just as Scrooge re-evaluates his life and actions when he comes face-to-face with his tombstone, so too does the tradition of memento mori ask us to evaluate our lives in light of eternity.
Dec 24, 2020
CAPC Magazine Issue 4 of 2020: Traditions
In this year’s final issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine, our authors look to classic Christmas tales, newer interpretations of favorite stories, and unlikely holiday viewing choices to remind us of the intangible truths wrapped up in our Christmas traditions.
Dec 23, 2020
Maybe the Real War on Christmas Was the Friends We Made along the Way
The backlash against O’Reilly’s 2004 fabrication of “The War on Christmas” was as swift as his declaration of it to exist.
Dec 23, 2020
The Mandalorian Recap: I Am Your Father (Season 2, Episode 8)
In the untrained hands of one so powerful as Grogu, the Force is a recipe for calamity.
Dec 21, 2020
Beethoven Broke My Arm: A Pandemic Tale
Perhaps it was inevitable that, back when I was looking forward to a summer of attending and reviewing performances of all nine symphonies, it was all about to crash and burn.
Dec 18, 2020
Seeing and Believing 274 | Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Disney+’s The Mandalorian
Wade is joined by Steve Norton of ScreenFish.net to discuss Nomadland, the new film from Chloé Zhao, and The Mandalorian Season 2.
Dec 17, 2020
The Strokes in 2020: Excluding Impatience and Embracing The New Abnormal
Goodness takes time, so why not live with hopeful ambiguity instead of bitter snap judgement?
Dec 17, 2020
Mona Haydar Challenges Authoritarianism
As Mona Haydar makes clear, faith which worships human authority and depends on rules for other people is a form of godliness only, not the real thing.
Dec 16, 2020
Fatman: The Sleigh, the Truth, and the Life
In Fatman, we root for depressed and weary Santa as the underdog, unaware a highly trained assassin is coming for him; yet we’re given hope through hints of his supernatural powers to fight injustice.
Dec 16, 2020
Longing for Mercy: Cobra Kai and the Meaning of Christmas
Cobra Kai’s lack of mercy on display makes us look for a different way, which the Christmas tradition provides. Christmas is all about mercy.
Dec 16, 2020
The Mandalorian Recap: Sacrificing the Sacred (Season 2, Episode 7)
We’ve had to do what we’ve had to do, which meant saying goodbye, for a time, to the good things—even some of the sacred things—in order to survive.
Dec 15, 2020
Bent Out of Shape: The Ring of Power and the Wraithing of Humanity
Power is no thing to love, only to bear with, as Tolkien teaches us.
Dec 14, 2020
Christian Storytelling and the Upsidedown Shadowlands
“Further up and further in” is an imaginary concept, informed by legend and myth, and also Scripture. These are invitations for all to partake in bigger experiences, conversations, joy, and peace.