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.
H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing Is a Sublime Take on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
One of those takeoffs that makes you both love it for itself, and love the book it’s based on even more than you already did.
I Believe in A Christmas Carol (and the Redemptive Power of Memory)
These memories could make holidays without my daughter miserable. But the opposite is true. Remembrance makes Christmas all the more precious.
“Christmas in His Bluff and Hearty Honesty”: Charles Dickens Among the Goblins
Few of us moderns know the origins of Dickens’ contagious Christmas Spirit, the joyful and perhaps mythic spring from which he created A Christmas Carol.
Scrooge: Individualism Run Amok
By opening himself and giving to others, Ebenezer Scrooge is living a more robust life himself.
CAPC Magazine Issue 4 of 2020: Traditions
In this year’s final issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine, our authors look to classic Christmas tales, newer interpretations of favorite stories, and unlikely holiday viewing choices to remind us of the intangible truths wrapped up in our Christmas traditions.
Episode 272: Tomm Moore and Ross Stewarts’s Wolfwalkers and Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield
Wolfwalkers uses stunning animation to tell a story of myth and magic. After that, Wade and Kevin tackle The Personal History of David Copperfield.
The Best Is Yet to Come
The tragedy of lost childhoods can be redeemed and the wistfulness we sometimes feel over the past is an intimation and foretaste of a future of healing and joy and restoration.
