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Clarifying Christ and Pop Culture’s AI Policy

We believe that writing is best when it comes straight from the human heart, mind, and soul without any intervening artificial intelligence.

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.

Let’s Be Yearny: What Celibacy Taught Me about Sexual Desire

Our desire for intimacy is just one expression of a deeper human truth: we are creatures who yearn.

Ashes to Ashes, Code to Code: Tilly Norwood’s Empty Perfection

We don’t have to strive towards an AI-generated perfection. Instead, we can glory in our flawed, unfiltered selves.

If Pixar’s Hoppers Is Propaganda, Then Maybe It’s Propaganda We Need to Hear

God called humanity to govern nature, but Pixar’s latest reminds us that it’s challenging to govern that which we do not love.

Grace Invites Inspiration: The Courage of Sandman’s Muse

True inspiration must be free because it must be an act of love and not coercion.

King Kong Died for Our Sins: Why Unexpected Christ Figures Matter

Fiction—whether in novel, TV, or movie form—is filled with unexpected, almost scandalous, Christ figures.

Sin and Shame in KPop Demon Hunters

Echoes of eternal truth are likely a part of why Netflix’s film resonates with audiences around the world.

Death is Always Brutal: Reflections on Clair Obscur Expedition 33

Death is always brutal. Death is always violent. There is no glossing over this reality.

Radical Love: The Rise of the Kind Lead

Ted Lasso and James Garfield take the hard road of gentleness in a world that assumes the soft touch is synonymous with failure.

Dangerous Talent: John Elway’s Quest for Greatness

We need to see more sports stories like Elway’s, stories that reveal how the ways of glory and sin are not always what they seem.

1985 vs. 2025: A Hope/less Hallelujah

Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.

Marty Supreme, Table Tennis, and the Cost of Gaining the Whole World

Timothée Chalamet gives his biggest performance yet in Josh Safdie’s film about a table tennis phenom willing to sacrifice everything for success.

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.

The Comic Faith of O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A quarter-century later, the Coen Brothers lead us to laugh, question, and believe.

CAPC’s Favorite Books and Memes of 2025

An affair on the Jumbotron, papal memes, a history of punk rock, Venetian protests, and more.