Ocean’s 11, 1944: Sorting through the Jumble of THE MONUMENTS MEN
While George Clooney’s wildly-uneven THE MONUMENTS MEN doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be, one surprising moment brings to light the film that could have been.
Journey Through the Judgement House
Martyn Jones visits a “Judgement House” designed to scare people into acknowledging their mortality, and is startled by what he finds.
The Body of Christ, the Balloons of Salvation: On Christian Balloon Twisting
Number 4: Balloon twisting for Jesus is an easy topic for mockery, but Martyn Jones considers some of the thicker implications of such airy object lessons.
7. Welcome to Night Vale: “Your Thoughts Return to the Dog Park” #CaPC25
Celebrating C.S. Lewis: ‘A Grief Observed’
“Sometimes all we know of God is his absence, and other times he appears as a scourge.”
I Finally Made Myself Watch The Exorcist, and I Did Not Leave Without Hope
What one CaPC writer found after he overcame crippling fear and subjected himself to the horror classic for the first time.
ELSEWHERE: New Study Suggests ‘Porn Addiction’ Is a Smutty Fiction
ELSEWHERE: Jesus is having a moment in literary fiction
ELSEWHERE: A Beginner’s Guide to David Foster Wallace
ELSEWHERE: Christopher Lasch Wouldn’t Call Narcissism a Millennial Novelty
The Precarious Validity of ‘Pastor Fashion’
“Provided we remain sensitive to conviction over idolatry, greed, and vanity, I don’t see why Christians ought to feel guilt for valuing created things, including the things we use to clothe ourselves.”
If Books and Culture Disappears, We All Lose
“Nowhere else will you find an evangelical journal with the same depth and breadth, the same consistently high-grade editorial quality, the same brainy cast of contributors.”
