Apr 4, 2019
The Horror of Us Is God’s Judgment on America
Jordan Peele’s Us critiques who we are as a nation and people, and from where we’ve come.
Mar 29, 2019
Seeing and Believing 193: Jordan Peele’s Us and Chris Caldwell/Zeek Earl’s Prospect
Two genre films are up for consideration this week: one set in the farthest reaches of space, and one that hits uncomfortably close to home: Us and Prospect
Mar 26, 2019
The Vital Love of Friendship Stories
These friendship stories—in giving us fantastic scenarios—demonstrate how in God’s economy friendship is far from cheap.
Mar 22, 2019
CAPC Jr.: Pop Culture Commentary from the Next Generation
In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.
Mar 12, 2019
Captain Marvel and the Importance of Telling Female Hero Stories
Women and girls must know they can be agents of change—that their voices are as loud and as true, their strength and dedication just as valued and valuable, as their male counterparts.
Mar 8, 2019
21 Grams, Woo Science, and the Quantum Soul
In 21 Grams there is a measure of redemption for each character, which invites us to toward a fuller sense of personhood through (quantum?) entanglement with the living God.
Feb 15, 2019
Seeing and Believing 188: Mike Mitchell’s The Lego Movie 2 and Robert Krzykowski’s The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Feb 14, 2019
‘You’re like Me’: Friendship in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse emphasizes C. S. Lewis’s understanding of friendship among people who understand one another.
Jan 5, 2019
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, CAPC Gave to Me: Twelve Movie Moments
The movies of 2018 were chock-a-block with enchanting shots.
Jan 4, 2019
Seeing and Believing 182: James Wan’s Aquaman and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
The latest entry in the DC superhero universe and an awards favorite from Poland. Does Aquaman sink or swim? Does Cold War leave the guys feeling cold?
Jan 3, 2019
On the Tenth Day of Christmas, CAPC Gave to Me: Ten Supers Saving
In some ways, we all face a battlefield of minute, infinitesimally important choices every day, for good and evil.
Dec 26, 2018
On the Second Day of Christmas, CAPC Gave to Me: Two Movie Soundtracks
Both A Star Is Born and Black Panther: The Album accomplished feats of carrying the emotions of their respective films beyond the movie screen.
Dec 24, 2018
George Bailey at the Bridge: The Costly Virtue of It’s a Wonderful Life
If we’re not willing to give of ourselves for the communities in which God has placed us, what will be the cost of the absence of our virtue?
Dec 21, 2018
Seeing and Believing 181: Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Merry Christmas from Seeing & Believing! Our last episode before Christmas starts off Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and then Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Dec 6, 2018
In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers Show Love for the Good Book
By playing to the canon in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, while at once forging their own trail, the Coens manage to both nod to and question the orthodoxy of what we’ve been told about the grand ‘ole world of outlaws and guns and rickety wagons.
Dec 4, 2018
First, Man: The Neil Armstrong Our Nation Needs
He was the first man to walk on the moon, but he was a man first, along with all the foibles that come with manhood.