Monthly Archives: December 2021

Reviewing the products of 1981 and 2021 reveals our desperate search for salvation from death… and salvation from modern daily life.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2021.

The film’s highs and lows are mined from something viscerally human and somehow understated: the desire for connection.

The Hawkeye Scrooge faced his past, burned the suit, and gained something of a daughter in the process.

Kevin and Sarah close out 2021 with a new film and genre from Steven Spielberg with a remake of West Side Story.

While You Were Sleeping is unusual for this genre because it shows the necessity of both family and shame for the storied couple’s well-being

Jesus’s birth is a breach of human hospitality, not an example of it.

Even criminals deserve a chance at redemption, and there is always hope where there is new life.

Kevin is joined by critic/author Sarah Welch-Larson to chat about a film that both were excited for: Mike Mills’s C’mon C’mon.

Like Paul in Dune, we can fall into the trap of moral expediency—the temptation to care more about winning than about holiness and humble service. 

Silliman argues that each of these stories prefigures the current crisis within evangelicalism.

It’s an almost impossible task, to give up your right to another’s life.

A Castle for Christmas is hopeful in the same way that Advent is a season of hope.

Squid Game shows us the value of sacrificial, compassionate action to our own life of faith, especially within a competitive, late capitalist society.

While the Christmas story is Marvel-like in the sense that it explains Jesus’s supernatural powers by showing us his supernatural origins, it’s not fictional.

Now that Ronin is “out there” again, Clint can’t let the wrath reserved for Ronin fall on someone else, let alone a kid who needs his help.