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?
Beware the Messiah: Dune and the Power of Faith
What is missing from the Dune films is the complexity of religion and humanity depicted by Frank Herbert in the novels.
The Bold Type and the Secular Default
Four episodes into the second season, The Bold Type wove religion and faith into its storyline.
Steven Spielberg’s Cinema of the Sublime
Spiritual longing typifies Spielberg’s approach as a storyteller and may account for at least some of his blockbuster appeal.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is Risky, Explosive, and Beautifully Brazen
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not only what many audiences need, but how they need it.
Sowing Seeds of Truth: Art’s Transcendent Power
God never intended for us to create artificial barriers between ourselves and art, one of His greatest gifts to us.
“I’m Spiritual but Not Religious”: David Dark’s New Book Takes on Religionless Christianity, Free for CAPC Members
David Dark’s ‘Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious’ is available free to Christ and Pop Culture members.
Look to the Heavens: Interstellar and the Relativity of Our Perspective
Outside the Courtroom: How People, Not Merely Policy, Can End Abortion
Wherever we are, we can touch the unique lives of the individuals at the center of the storm that is abortion.
Is Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Perpetuating a War Between Science and Religion?
The series premiere of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was beautifully shot and creatively written. But does it continue to perpetuate the warfare thesis of science versus religion?
Yeezianity, Dudeism, and Other Pop Religions: Whatever Works
The proliferation of pop religions suggests that our culture is less and less interested in the veracity of their belief systems.
Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 8: Christianity and “Whomanism”
“Doctor Who provides no consistent answer to the question of what the universe is made of, or whether there is a higher power above time and space. For the most part, the show adopts a clearly humanist mindset with regards to the matter around us. But then an episode like “The Satan Pit” comes about, throwing a wrench into our understanding of the universe.”
How to Write a Hugely-Popular Piece for Huffington Post Religion
Music Matters: The 21st Century Return of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Church Music
A Christian walks into a Church for Atheists…
It might be tempting for Christians to look at this derisively, but can something that encourages people to slow down in this harried age of ours, and seek community and quiet reflection, really be all bad?
