Kaos Drains: What This Provocative (and Cancelled) Series Says About Our Distaste for Disorder
When we are expected to invest in storytelling whose very basis is un-formation, it seems we largely ignore it.
Apostle and the Machinery of Religion: What Makes It Work?
Does religion guarantee us deliverance out of the predicaments of being alive? Is it a machine we operate to tame and exploit transcendent reality?
What Do We Owe Each Other While We Wait for The Good Place?
In essence, “What are my rights?” is private and individual. “What do we owe one another?” is personal and communal. It’s to shift from “What do I deserve?” to “What is best for us?”
The Eternal Return
Reclaiming the Bible as story helps us to live in the tension between our experience, with its various cycles, and the ending to which history is moving.
Baptizing “Masculinity”: The Real Reason Men are Leaving the Church
Too often, when we talk about “attracting men” to church, what we mean is tricking men into walking in the door by baptizing whatever infantilized conceptions of masculinity the broader culture has invented.
God’s (Still) Not Dead: 12 Modest Sequel Proposals
CaPC came up with the following ideas at our last pitch meeting, and each of them is 100% guaranteed to make for a positive™, uplifting™, and family-friendly™ viewing experience.
“God’s Not Dead” and the Angry Atheist Professor: That Was Not My Experience
I’m concerned that God’s Not Dead perpetuates a false stereotype: that of the bully atheist philosophy professor who is out to destroy every Christian student’s faith.
Celebrating C. S. Lewis: ‘The Problem of Pain’
“Lewis knows the comfort of knowing the truth, especially when it comes to the truth of a fundamentally trustworthy and loving God in the midst the pain.”
Superman: Not Just a Man, but a Just Man
“Whether or not Christians feel comfortable thinking of Superman as a Christ-figure, we can at least be safe in understanding him as an idealized portrayal of the just man.”
ELSEWHERE: How Many Philosophers Believe in God?
Unjust Laws: MLK and Contraceptive Mandates
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Purpose of the Universe
It is arrogant to believe that purpose of the universe was to bring about carbon-based sentient lifeforms, i.e., us (human beings).
