Apr 21, 2017
Moving Past the Purity Movement
It’s time to find a way past the Purity Movement that helps us fuse what we know about sex with what we know about God and how he wants us to live.
Apr 18, 2017
Dorothy Parker’s Fearless Criticism Made Me a Better Writer (and a Better Person)
Dorothy Parker was far removed from my Christian comfort zone but her work helped me to find a voice of my own.
Mar 31, 2017
Reset by David Murray, Free for CAPC Members
Reset is an excellent example of taking the fruits of common grace psychology and integrating them into a practical theology for Christians.
Mar 21, 2017
Paradoxology by Krish Kandiah, Free for CAPC Members
Paradoxology provides an apologetic for uncertainty and a defense of discomfort.
Mar 17, 2017
The Not-So-False Dichotomy of Fate/Zero
Submission to a worthy and trustworthy person emboldens, even in the fictional relationships of Fate/Zero.
Feb 24, 2017
Dave Eggers’s The Circle : A Social Media Dystopia
In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.
Feb 23, 2017
2 + 2 ≠ 5: Finding Hope in 1984
This is what 1984 can offer us: a fuller picture and vocabulary to articulate the brokenness beneath our apathy, fear, and information overload.
Feb 17, 2017
“Come on Dandelion, Tell Us a Story”: A Richard Adams Primer
Richard Adams is gone now, but as a storyteller he lives on. He’s handy that way.
Feb 16, 2017
Searching for Our Own Reflections: Lessons from Alana Massey and Madeleine L’Engle
Alana Massey’s “All the Lives I Want” lifts up our shared humanity.
Feb 16, 2017
Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt, Free for CAPC Members
In Gospel Fluency, Jeff Vanderstelt wants to help every believer speak the gospel in the stuff of everyday life.
Feb 7, 2017
Comfort Detox by Erin Straza, Free for CaPC Members
Comfort Detox is a valuable stepping stone for people who are disquieted with their own excess but are not sure what to do next.
Feb 1, 2017
The Bent Frame of Our History in Eric Metaxas’s If You Can Keep It
Eric Metaxas has written an inspiring book on American exceptionalism. But does he blur the details of history?
Jan 31, 2017
Nordic Noir Reveals That Earth’s Happiest Nations Are Not as Utopian as They Seem
Nordic noir’s bone-chilling revelation is that no matter how far we progress as a society, we are limited and weighed down by our corrupt natures.
Jan 20, 2017
Interpret Carefully: Balancing Caution and Hope in Responding to Shusaku Endo’s Novel Silence
If there is a faithful interpretation of Endo’s Silence, it comes because the martyrdoms of the Japanese Christians and Garrpe may successfully testify against the self-justifications Rodrigues offers for his apostasy.
Jan 17, 2017
Alien and Station Eleven Reveal the Limits of Survival and Human Nature
Two acclaimed works of fiction challenge the notion that mere survival ought to be humanity’s highest goal.
Jan 4, 2017
Making Amends: Eve Tushnet on Addiction in Our Time
It turns out that it is possible to write a hilarious novel about addiction. Eve Tushnet pulls off such a feat (along with offering plenty of insight) in her book on a Reality TV show set at a rehab center.