The Cost of Faith: Dawn-Keepers and Doubt in Octopath Traveler 2

Octopath Traveler 2’s compassionate focus on Temenos’s doubt traces out the struggle of a man who has lost much through suffering, finding his path forward to the light.

Strange Negotiations: The David Bazan Documentary

Strange Negotiations peels the curtain back to show the emotional and relational cost that this seemingly successful business model extracted from David Bazan. 

Erase Me, but Your Words Won’t Be Erased: Underoath, Emery, and the God Who Won’t Leave Us Alone

Underoath and Emery both reveal what doubt, addiction, and perhaps even abandonment could feel like.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and the Fragility of Hope

Did Mister Rogers die with his hope intact? Is hope itself fragile? Can it withstand life in America today?

What the Return of Pedro the Lion Means for David Bazan, Patron Saint of Skeptics and Doubters

Bazan is one of the few songwriters who reminds us that religion, as experienced in daily life, is a journey of faith.

The Digital Art That Graces Our Lives: Boss Fight Books and the Need to Take Games Seriously

Boss Fight Books is a quirky, charming series that weaves together journalism, criticism, game theory, and often a heavy dose of memoir.

The Case for POP: U2’s Forgotten Dance Record

U2’s POP is about faith’s fragility amidst the noise, confusion, and chaos that come when you realize your ideology isn’t going to change the world.

Willing to Wait for It

When we find ourselves in a period of limbo, needing to wait, we may reframe our situations to make us feel in control, but the truth is, we’re powerless.

Deliverance & Doubt by South of Royal, Free for CAPC Members

Deliverance & Doubt by South of Royal is a clean collection of synth-pop/rock songs with catchy hooks that would feel at home on any new Hillsong or Coldplay album.

The Longest Distance Relationship: Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber’s science fiction novel, The Book of Strange New Things, dramatizes profound gulf between its characters and between God and humanity.

Dark Souls’ Geography of Doubt

In ‘Dark Souls’ as in life, if we linger by the fireside, our embers become ash.

How to Be an Atheist: Working out the Worldview of a Skeptic, Free for CAPC Members

Mitch Stokes’ ‘How to Be an Atheist’ shows the work of the worldview of a skeptic.

The Sea’s Gray Sameness: Fifty Years of Endo’s ‘Silence’

‘Silence’ is not, perhaps, a novel that instills faith—but it is a novel that creates enough doubts to allow our faith to take a new shape

Eat Your Vegetables: “Doubt” (Shanley, 2008)

“The film ultimately believes in doubt, thus robbing both belief and doubt of their potency.”

“Doubt” and Transforming Faith

Carissa Smith examines how the modern parable, “Doubt” challenges postmodern believers.