It was obviously a touch ironic that Sesame Street, as a show created for poor inner-city kids, was inspiring such rabid suburban consumerism, but at the time, it was actually exactly what Sesame Street needed.
Pop culture is a powerful force for change, and these picks from Christ and Pop Culture staff members are a great place to start.
It’s not really a mystery why people yearn to believe bizarre and dramatic tales of evil: the actual truth about evil is that it’s mundane, pervasive, and unfixable, at least to us mortals.
If you don’t have any sort of hope beyond death, the absurdity of everything tends to hit you hard. And then you end up doing stupid stuff, like betting the family farm on a bunch of tulips.
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.
Knock Down the House provides real-life glimpses of what we love most about our favorite political dramas.
Raul is about family, compassion, and patience. It’s about looking across the broken landscape of our world and considering how we may use the cross of Christ to bridge the prejudicial gaps of humanity.
In these seasons of Advent and Christmas especially, history points to a church whose worship is particularly political.
“There’s a visceral reaction to our flag—as there should be—because of its history. And here in Mississippi, we don’t know our history.”
More than anything, Slow Burn reminded me of one of evangelicals’ (and Americans’) greatest blind spots: our own history.
When we recite an ancient creed, we aren’t just reminded of our roots but of our current connection to a global church.
In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson discuss dream jobs that, like being appointed to the Supreme Court, have zero requirements. For Hannah, it’s being a justice; for Erin, it’s being a food critic.
Erin and Hannah discuss the way our public discourse has become about winning and sides rather than solving the crisis in separating families at our border. Is it possible for us to set politics aside?
In RBG, West and Cohen offer a welcome salve for our society’s wounds, a celebration of Ginsburg as Ginsburg, irreducible to any political stance.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are a testimony to the power of love to redeem all things, even the most difficult and painful of histories.
When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.
