Editor’s Picks Archives

Leave it to a band from the city of bright lights and long odds to show us how to live out our points along history’s timeline.

These contributions are birthed from joy and lament, celebration and sadness, commemoration of the past and considerations of what can be in the future.

The darker subtexts of Star Trek: Lower Decks point to the reality that, in a very real and metaphysical sense, there are no “little” sins.

Those who eschew a revisionist view of Scripture around the issue of sex will be viewed as the “do-badders” and no longer the “do-gooders.”

Comparing 1980 and 2020 reveals how pop culture dramatizes our anxieties.

When secular society framed sex as a need or right, purity culture said the same thing—at least to men—and taught a generation of women that they existed to fulfill this need.

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

Black Americans have been prophesying to the rest of America about these injustices, because we’ve lived these stories time and again.

Our team highlights important people and happenings that shaped the year that was 2020.

Our team highlights their favorite books and games from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite TV shows from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite films from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2020.

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.

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.