Stranger Things Illustrates the Bible’s Vision of Spiritual Reality and Warfare

Christians can watch the Netflix hit with a thoughtfulness to their own spiritual reality and allow its imagery to capture their imagination.

Returning to the Upside Down: A CAPC Stranger Things Retrospective

Our favorite and most popular Stranger Things-related posts and features from the last nine years.

1982 vs. 2022: Greed vs. Giving

In 1982, the era hadn’t decided to be known as the decade of greed yet. There was still a choice open to the culture: to better the world by giving and supporting others, or to greedily make oneself rich.

Daughters and Daddies: Giving Louise, Eleven, and Kamala the Confidence They Need

These daughters beat themselves up, lost their self-assurance, and lacked a true sense of who they were, but their fathers guided them toward the truth.

Tiny Space Vikings and the Upside Down Horror of Child Warriors

Children should be free to be children; it’s the job of adults to protect and preserve innocent life.

Does Evil Have a Sound? Reflections on Vecna’s Playlist, Black Metal & the Banality of Evil

Is Vecna’s evil really exemplified best by the tumultuous sounds of black metal artists like Darkthrone and Mayhem?

“I’m Still Here”: Stranger Things 4, “Running Up that Hill,” and Killing Monsters

Stranger Things has always been about recalling people to life—about fighting for your life and others’ lives.

TV & Film Favorites of the Decade from CAPC Staff

The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.

The Suffering Service of Jim Hopper

And, as inevitably as Hopper strives against the darkness of the Upside Down, he also struggles to choose the higher goods before him.

Time in the Telling: How Stories of Time Help Us Grapple with a Fallen World 

All of time itself is but a dream from which the people of Narnia—and, let the reader understand, all of us—will someday wake.

Seeing and Believing 209 | Netflix’s Stranger Things Season 3 and Danny Boyle’s Yesterday

Jump back to the 1980’s with a review of Stranger Things 3 followed by a discussion about Danny Boyle’s latest film outing, Yesterday.

The CaPC Digest 86: Stranger Things and This Is Us with Justin Cloyd

Drew and Tyler are back in 2018 with CaPC writer Justin Cloyd to chat about his recent article “The Relatable Longings of Stranger Things and This is Us”.

Walking in Joyce Byers’s Footsteps: Motherhood in a Stranger Things World

Joyce Byers—an axe-wielding woman who strings lights in the darkness to lead her son home and who knows when to let her son feel actual pain—is a paragon of motherhood.

Stranger Things and the Heart’s Deepest Desire

The belonging Eleven finds in Hawkins mirrors the belonging we should find in the community of faith.

Imagining Stranger Things

The Party can best explain what is taking place in Hawkins because they see through the lens of their imaginations.

Stranger Things Reminds Us of the Lessons We Keep Forgetting

These truths seem obvious, but perhaps we need a reminder.