“I Am My Father’s Son”: Stephen Wilson, Jr., Wendell Berry, and the Myth of Self-Creation

Wilson’s songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.

Take Me to Church: Max’s Somebody Somewhere

Sometimes church is a collection of broken, lonely people who might be exiled from other faith communities, and who long to know their worth.

Apple TV+’s Shrinking: Why Things Get Worse Before They Get Better

This series captures the reality that the most difficult parts of life are the most transformative.

Stronger Than the Ropes: Family, Fellowship, and Local Professional Wrestling

The independent wrestling circuit begins with genuine connection and a familial bond with fans: the spectacle comes secondarily.

The Banshees of Inisherin: The Pace of Being Known and Love Beyond Niceness

God created us in his image to live at his speed so we might know others and know Him.

A Pandemic of Romantic Idolatry

COVID-19 highlighted what was already true: both single and married Christians need more family in the body of Christ than romance can offer.

Temperance and Play: The Weird and Wonderful World of Wordle

Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.

Persuasion 225 | What We Make of Others

We cannot escape our connections to others and the way these connections shape who we are and who we will become.

Persuasion 220 | Rebuilding Community, with Adam Gustine

Erin and Hannah invite Adam Gustine to help us learn how to show up in our communities in ways that expand the common good.

The One That Taught Us What Adulting Was All About

Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross gave us something greater to aspire toward: togetherness. 

People & Happenings of 2020 from CAPC Staff

Our team highlights important people and happenings that shaped the year that was 2020.

Ted Lasso Is Rooting for You

Ted Lasso is striking, in this particular time, because it shines a light into our own darkness.

Grace for the Classzoom: Schooling in a Pandemic

In a pandemic, how can we foster the community so crucial for education?

The Last Dance: Community Issues (Episodes 3 & 4)

Episodes 3 & 4 of The Last Dance is a picture of why God calls us to community: this is where we find commitment and accountability—and we are changed by it for the better.

How We Behaved When COVID-19 Robbed Our Culture of Sports

In this way, the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us that close-knit, human-to-human and face-to-face communal gatherings—the kind we enjoy with sports—still matter.

The One Ring of North Yorkshire and the Internet School of Cultural (il)Literacy

It’s in those moments that the internet feels like a good place to be—a place to reveal how a single story written by an English chap in the 1950s has touched and shaped thousands of lives for the better.