CAPC’s Most Popular Posts of 2023 (So Far…)

We’re halfway through 2023, so now seems like the perfect time to highlight some of our most popular articles.

Christ and Pop Culture Reflects on the Legacy of Timothy Keller

Christ and Pop Culture writers present their reflections on how Timothy Keller’s life and thought informed or shaped their own work.

Can Watching Horror Help Us to Neither Deny Nor Domesticate the Darkness?

Horror is a witness to the monstrous we wish we could explain away but cannot.

The Restoration of Romance

Sarah Russell’s poem poses as a meditation on love and longing for one’s spouse, but in fact exposes the extent of our culture’s decay with regard to the self-giving necessary to create and sustain romantic relationships.

Instanomics: Where Our Treasure Is, There Our Posts Will Be Also

What we choose to share on Instagram shows the world what we value.

Oh Fudge! Why We Swear and What it Means

There are times when, to properly name evil as evil, only the worst of words will do.

Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 3: “It Sucks to Be a Girl”

While many of women’s problems are age-old, what’s changed is the promise of a new solution: the promise of escaping womanhood by adopting a new identity.

CAPC’s Most-Read Articles of 2022

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2022.

Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 2: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone

Without tradition to protect us, our bodies become subject to the dynamics of the market.

Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 1: It’s Too Simple for Words

The categories of male/female and man/woman are simply too ancient and fundamental to be tampered with without consequences.

1982 vs. 2022: Greed vs. Giving

In 1982, the era hadn’t decided to be known as the decade of greed yet. There was still a choice open to the culture: to better the world by giving and supporting others, or to greedily make oneself rich.

The Dead Do Not Forget: Advent as the Practice of Penitence

Advent was historically preoccupied with the second coming of Christ and focused on the last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

“We Have Something That Needs to Be Told”: An Interview with Stephen Atherholt, Lead Actor in I Heard the Bells

Stephen Atherholt plays poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the film I Heard the Bells.

Cole Burgett’s The Lost Son: The Horror of an Unabsolved Homecoming

An homage to classic horror radio plays, this limited audio series asks, “What if the father had rejected the prodigal son upon his return?”

“Mark the Music” and the Dance: A Meditation on Cosmic Joy

Creation was made to love, and through love one lives his or her life, dancing in harmony with God and nature.

I Got Richard Pryor’s Help Moving

Moving provided humorous distraction, while reminding me that some also have to deal with the demon of discrimination while relocating.