Temperance and Play: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wordle
Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.
CAPC’s Most-Read Articles of 2021
Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2021.
Reconciliation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Apocalypse
The best ending possible to the Mass Effect trilogy is easiest to achieve with the help of the Quarians and the Geth. It also requires a lot of cooperation from other various peoples around the entire galaxy.
The Lurid Profanity of Blasphemous
Blasphemous reminds us that we too often reduce our mysterious God to a player on both sides of a cosmic chess game.
Book & Game Favorites of 2020 from CAPC Staff
Our team highlights their favorite books and games from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.
Church Tycoon and the Church of Christ
The core doctrines of our faith are not mere trappings to make money, as envisioned by Church Tycoon: they are our very reason for existence.
Videogames Probably Don’t Cause Violence, but They Sure Seemed like a Good Scapegoat in 1993
Joking aside, though, I’m sure you’re wondering—do violent videogames cause violence? The answer, according to science, is “Well, mayb…no. Prolly not.”
Rehearsing the Legends: Final Fantasy VII Remake and Why We Retell Stories
The Final Fantasy VII Remake does what many retellings fail to do; it reconciles the past with the future.
Virtual Reality was Virtually Real, for About Five Minutes in the Nineties
Ultimately, the problem with VR was that it, like so much that happened in the nineties, put technology ahead of content.
Kindness and Grace in Ori and the Blind Forest
From beginning to end, Ori and the Blind Forest is ultimately a story of kindness.
Reading & Playing: Favorites of the Decade from CAPC Staff
The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.
The Tie That Binds: The Responsibility of Community in Pyre
Pyre utilizes the narrative power of interactive fiction to remind you of a simple truth: that you are not your own.
Empathy, Compassion, and Giving Back in the Geek Community
Dungeons and Dragons is a game deeply rooted in empathy; seeing it used to urge compassion should inspire us all.
Critical Role, the Role of Stories, and the Church
The soaring popularity of Critical Role among the geek world was, and is, rooted in both the beauty of their tale and who they are as people.
On the Fourth Day of Christmas, CAPC Gave to Me: Four Indie Games
Through community, acceptance, and paying attention to our environment, these four indie games show there is hope to be found, in 2018 and in the years to come.
Cultivating Mindfulness through Alto’s Odyssey
We find echoes of Eden in so many cultural artifacts, even video games.
