Poor Things and the Pursuit of Pleasure

Poor Things reflects a dark and scathing image of our world, of our disordered longings, and of the quest to satisfy them.

Liturgy of the Tomb Raider

I can’t think of a single other video game with the moxie to demand that players learn the stations of the cross to raid a tomb.

Boys State, Starring Our Own Malnourished Political Imaginations

We swim in the waters of partisan conflict, and we can hardly recognize that underneath all the posturing, strategizing, and warfare tactics is supposed to be a real vision of human flourishing.

Persuasion 179 | A Hallmark Christmas

In this new mini-series called A Persuasion Christmas, each episode will feature conversation with Erin and Hannah about a specific way pop culture is shaping our mindset and approach to celebrating Christmas.

Persuasion 173 | Processing Art’s Temporal Nature, with Kendall Vanderslice

Persuasion has a guest! Kendall Vanderslice joins us for a conversation about time constraints, consumption, and investing the hours needed to hone your craft as part of our series The Creative Process.

Persuasion 163 | Holy Week 101, with Anne Kennedy

Anne Kennedy joins Persuasion for an overview of Holy Week happenings and ways Christians can more meaningfully celebrate the resurrection.

Our Beloved Stories of Summer

Revisiting good fiction—while by no means a replacement for Scripture—can become a vital part of the Christian life.

What Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family Teaches Us About Home, Church, and Technology

In The Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch provides a fresh articulation of how the nature of technology can be conflict with the purpose and intention of home, family, and community.

The Guy Who Just Decided He Was Pope

If you’re wondering how someone can just declare himself pope, keep in mind that things in the church were way less formal back then.

Daniel Tiger’s Rhythms of Grace

The songs of Daniel Tiger have become little liturgies that shape my daughter’s days.

Ascending to Disney World: Making Sense of a Modern Religious Pilgrimage

Traveling to Disney World looks more and more like a religious pilgrimage than many would care to admit.

Changing Seasons of Gilmore Girls: Understanding the Cultural Liturgies of Stars Hollow and Small Town, America

The rituals and comforts of Small Town, America, are not necessarily unique to Stars Hollow.

The CAPC Digest #51: The Contours Of Hillsong Corporate Worship with David Roark

Hillsong corporate worship, authenticity in worship and the appreciation of different worship traditions are the subject as Drew and Tyler interview David Roark.

LOL Interwebz: The Vine and the Lattice

Sometimes feeling the right things takes practice. Sometimes you have to rehearse the outward forms before the inward form takes root.

The Liturgies of ‘Shaun the Sheep’

Deep down, we are liturgical creatures, designed to live, to learn, to work, and even to play according to guided rhythms.

LOL Interwebz: Don’t Tell Anyone, but My Password is “P@ssw0rd”

Maybe poetry sounds like a weird approach to computer passwords, but it’s a solution that’s part of a long and storied human tradition.