Brad Vermurlen earned his PhD in sociology at the University of Notre Dame in 2016. He now writes and drinks coffee in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he lives with his wife, Alex. His website is www.bradvermurlen.com.
Sep 18, 2018

The Bold Type and the Secular Default

Four episodes into the second season, The Bold Type wove religion and faith into its storyline.
Oct 23, 2017

Single, Gay, Christian by Gregory Coles, Free for CAPC Members

Gregory Coles’s short autobiography—Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity—is wonderfully written, refreshingly honest, and deeply personal.
Sep 21, 2017

Bold in the City: Reflections on The Bold Type

The Bold Type has a not-very-subtle theme running through every episode: female empowerment for the modern millennial woman.
Mar 15, 2017

Jesus the Populist, Cosmopolitan Christ

Jesus is more cosmopolitan than many ordinary Americans seem to recognize.
Jul 8, 2016

Christ and Pop Anti-Culture?

To claim the United States today has no culture, as Carl Trueman does, works only if one adopts the least tenable, most outdated understanding of culture available.