Lydia R. Hamessley Explores Why Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Still Haunts Us So
It was part of Dolly’s gift, both as a singer and a songwriter, to make her songs sound effortless—yet they were anything but.
The Odyssey, Hospitality, and the Right of Strangers
American Christians should follow the example of Odysseus’s hosts and love our immigrant neighbors.
The Greatest Story Ever Adapted: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the Adaptation at the Heart of the Gospel
Why does this story continue to appeal to us? What does this latest version say about both the filmmaker and us?
CAPC Exclusive: Read the First Chapter From Gina Dalfonzo’s The Screen and the Mirror
Gina Dalfonzo’s new book considers how flawed movie characters can teach us about our own fallen natures.
The Way Out of the Maze: A Reflection on Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear
Burke’s novel pulls the psychological and physical curtain back to reveal where the promise of a simpler life falls short.
The Bat in Daylight: Matt Fraction, Batman, and a New Day in Gotham City
You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.
Abortion Stories, Reproductive Wrongs, and Our Need for Each Other
If one overarching theme can be discerned in such a variegated collection, it’s this: No abortion takes place in a void.
The Last Unapologetic Hero: Masculinity and Heroism in 007 First Light
The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.
Love, Language, and The Lost Princess: What Murcia Taught Me
Learning a foreign language, and making consistent efforts to communicate with its native speakers, cultivates godly maturity.
Encountering the Gospel in Brittany Fichter’s Before Beauty
The gospel is woven so deeply into the fabric of this tale that it preached to me.
Look at the Birds of the Air: Weathering Change Teaches Us to Trust
Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.
Subjects of the Machine and the Spirit of Revolt: A Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Latest Book
Against the Machine is not just a complaint about technological fetishism and overreach. The Machine is also within us.
Sun Eater Grapples with the Morality of Divine Judgment
Christopher Ruocchio’s series may help us better understand one of the most controversial parts of the Old Testament.
CAPC’s Favorite Books and Memes of 2025
An affair on the Jumbotron, papal memes, a history of punk rock, Venetian protests, and more.
Capra, Dickens, and Milton on Christmas Redemption
These stories of redeeming transformation are ultimately stories of uprooting, as their characters are inaugurated into a new life.
Is There Really Redemption in Sunrise on the Reaping?
Despite Haymitch’s mistakes, the Capitol and Snow are defeated, and hope was always present amid death.
