Aug 14, 2018
Hope for Henry Higgins: My Fair Lady in the #MeToo Era
In the #MeToo era, an ending like that in My Fair Lady could give us all hope that people can change—something we desperately need to remember.
Jun 26, 2018
Maybe Hollywood Needs a New Production Code to Protect Women
How did exploitation become the price that young women have to pay in Hollywood for using a God-given gift?
Jun 25, 2018
Bread of Fellowship: A Review of The Reading Cure
God, the giver of all good gifts, didn’t just give us food—he also gave us other people to enjoy it with us and to help us learn to enjoy it again if need be.
Apr 27, 2018
White Awake by Daniel Hill, Free for CAPC Members
White Awake brings us back again and again, gently but inexorably, to the truths that we’re so unwilling to face, steadily prying our hands from our eyes.
Apr 12, 2018
Love among the Metal Chickens
We pay lip service to the idea that no one is truly perfect, but do we really believe it?
Feb 6, 2018
I, Ashley: We’re Still Imposing the Harding-Kerrigan Narrative on Young Female Skaters
We can at least try to break our destructive judgments of public figures by remembering they are real human beings with feelings, minds, and agency of their own, and by leaving them a little room to surprise us.
Aug 31, 2017
No Wrong Men: Alfred Hitchcock on Our Shared Sin Nature
For Hitchcock, innocence and guilt were perhaps not always as far apart as they might appear.
Jul 18, 2017
I’m Bidding Farewell to Nashville and Its Immoral Storytelling
The creative minds behind Nashville are squandering their talents by taking the easy way out instead of offering something true, good, and beautiful.
May 25, 2017
Sowing Seeds of Truth: Art’s Transcendent Power
God never intended for us to create artificial barriers between ourselves and art, one of His greatest gifts to us.
Apr 27, 2017
Baiting the Bull: A Closer Look at Fearless Girl
Symbols like Fearless Girl, when understood and used properly, remind us of what we’re fighting for.
Apr 18, 2017
Dorothy Parker’s Fearless Criticism Made Me a Better Writer (and a Better Person)
Dorothy Parker was far removed from my Christian comfort zone but her work helped me to find a voice of my own.
Apr 17, 2017
Oscar’s Biggest Flubs
There have always been awards given out for not-so-award-worthy reasons.
Mar 1, 2017
No More Monkeys
Celebrities don’t exist for the sole purpose of entertaining us. They are allowed to spout off with their opinions, just like regular human beings.
Jan 19, 2017
Gotta Dance: La La Land and Singin’ in the Rain Celebrate Calling and Creativity
It’s good to be reminded that when we find the thing we were made to do and learn to do it well, that can indeed bring incredible joy and fulfillment.
Dec 22, 2016
“An Odd Sort of Mercy”: Jen Hatmaker, Glennon Doyle Melton, and The End of the Affair
Is God’s definition of love restricting us from happiness or freeing us from the self-love that entangles us?
Nov 30, 2016
The False Gods of Rory Gilmore
After nine years, the Gilmore girls are back, and it turns out Rory still hasn’t grown up.