What the NFL (and the Church) Can Learn from the NBA

Like many with power, the NFL owners are using their wealth and status to steamroll those in a weaker position.

A Perfect Circle: Elephants and End-Times

Keeping with the political tenor of the times, A Perfect Circle fearlessly brings religion into the fray once again.

White Awake by Daniel Hill, Free for CAPC Members

White Awake brings us back again and again, gently but inexorably, to the truths that we’re so unwilling to face, steadily prying our hands from our eyes.

Louis’s Sins and Mine

Art doesn’t reduce our questions and conflictedness; it multiplies them.

Now, Now, Not Yet: God’s Kingdom and Sho Baraka’s “March”

“March” is an expectation of the coming kingdom, an exuberant recognition that Christ has won this battle and a sobering admonition to usher in His reign.

Evangelicals at the Immigration Crossroads: Justice for DREAMers

Justice and mercy demand an answer for DREAMers, even as we as a nation expend great effort to secure the border and uphold the rule of law.

13 Reasons Why: When Only Grace Will Do

What do we do with our imperfect virtue, our guilt, our pathetic attempts at love?

Touchdown Jesus: Erin Andrews’ Harassment Shows the Sports World’s Injustice

The sports world’s treatment of women must change—now.

The CAPC Digest Episode 42: ‘Making a Murderer’ and Longing for Justice

Steven Avery’s defense attorney Dead Strang is the topic of conversation as Wade Bearden joins Drew and Tyler to talk about Wade’s interview with the now famous lawyer.

‘Better Call Saul’: What Makes a Man?

The central theme of ‘Better Call Saul’—Jimmy’s (later Saul) struggle with his identity as a man—takes the show to its loftiest heights.

What ‘The Jinx’ Gets Right About Our Desire for Closure

The Jinx offers us a chance to revel in this primitive longing for closure. It sweeps us away in the euphoria of a microscopic eschaton—feelings that are at once ancient, universal, and, I believe, quite spiritual.

Agent Carter and The Bletchley Circle: Pursuing Justice in a Weak Society

Like Deborah and the other prophets, Peggy Carter and the Bletchley Circle use their gifts to pursue whatever justice may be attained in a weak, fallen world.

His Truth Is Marching On: Selma‘s Clarion Call

The saga of Selma echoes its clarion call to Christ’s body today to be faithful heralds of truth and justice, to live and labor in the hope of what we still can’t see except in fleeting glimpses and furtive glances.

Can Ads Change the World? Thoughts on #likeagirl, #beyourway, and #shinestrong

We should never be tricked into thinking that ads exist to do anything other than sell us things, and we should never start to believe that being better consumers is the key to building a better world.

Christians Should Be Outraged by Uganda’s LGBT Trials

Jackson Mukasa, a 19-year-old transgendered woman, and Kim Mukisa, a 24-year-old gay man are currently standing trial in Uganda for having consensual sex. Here’s why Christians should stand in support of them.

ELSEWHERE: Injustice Piles On Top Of Injustice At Guantánamo