General Culture Archives

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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