Mukbang Videos and the War of Raging Appetites

The fundamental appeal of a mukbang video, then, is the promise of satisfaction through excess.

Feeding Consumerism: The Hidden Costs of Cheap Food

When convenience is the highest good, we’re minimizing the time that we spend preparing and eating food, but it’s unclear what we’re saving time in order to do.

All the Foods I’ve Failed to Eat

The tragedy of food waste is deeper than statistics about greenhouse gas emissions and money wasted. The story of most food waste is poor stewardship.

CAPC Magazine Issue 1 of 2019: Consumption

Consumerism is eating us alive. Save yourself! Save the world! Read this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

Ugly Delicious Reveals the Beauty and Challenge of Neighborly Love

To critique a show, or an institution, or a dear friend can be an act of love.

Anthony Bourdain Taught Us about Breaking Bread in a Broken World

By turning the cameras onto his guests, Bourdain revealed to his audience a world at once vastly diverse, painfully complex, and beautifully human.

Let Us (All) Eat Cake

The church has far too often failed to critique the way our culture shames the bodies of those outside the ideal and given theological weight to claims that some bodies are more godly than others.

Dining Our Way to Neighborly Love

When we eat with attention to the role of food in creation, by taking the physical world around us into our own bodies, we come to know more fully the God who created us and who created the world that feeds us.

The Aroma of Home: In Praise of a Korean Table

In many ways, the story of Korean food and culture in my life, with its Kentucky Baptist roots, is the story of how we travel through the world.

CAPC Magazine, Issue 4 of 2018: Food Fights

Why do we fight with our food? Read about a few of those reasons in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

Grieving the Gentrification of Food

It is over food that we relax, share our stories, our hopes, and often our dreams; we debate politics and argue sports over drinks and snacks; it can be argued that when food is present, we are most human.

CAPC Magazine, Issue 3 of 2018: Dishing on Dishes

We’re dishing on dishes of cultural cuisine in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

Persuasion 131: Your Food Has a Backstory, with Kendall Vanderslice & Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros

For all our dietary awareness these days, one thing we don’t consider much is that our food has a backstory. While obsessing about gluten and fat and carbs, we are neglecting the culture and history and heritage.

One a Penny, Two a Penny, Hot Pagan Buns?

The spicy sweetness of hot cross buns holds the juxtaposition of this odd day—while we mourn the darkness, we know the light is on its way.

Call for Pitches: Cultural Cuisine

Write for our digital magazine! Submit a pitch by 3/22 for a feature article on the theme of cultural cuisine.

How Seventh-Day Adventists Convinced You to Eat Breakfast Cereal

We devote huge amounts of time and energy guilting each other over what we eat.