CAPC’s Favorite Music and Podcasts of 2025

An exploration of the Satanic Panic, a hang out with friends, atmospheric post-punk, the return of folk heroes, and of course, Tay Tay.

We Need To Calm Down About Taylor Swift

Instead of retaliating, what if we humbly listened to those who harbor genuine grievances, pain, and fears regarding Christianity?

Guilty as Sin? Mother Taylor Swift and Our Tortured Desires

What should we do with our desires and what do they do to us? How do our desires shape who we are?

1983 vs. 2023: When Is Revival Right for America?

Some Christians want their version of revival so desperately that they try to force revival through fearmongering.

What Keeps Us Up at Midnight

Taylor Swift’s latest album accurately shows we are not the sole culprit for our sleeplessness.

“We’d Still Worship This Love”: Desiring God with Hozier, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber

Three hit songs offer three different perspectives on what it means to worship.

Music & Podcast Favorites of 2020 from CAPC Staff

Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Entering into the Stories of Folklore

In writing fiction, Taylor Swift has somehow managed to ponder the deeper truths of love and loss and life.

Music 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.

Sunday Oldskool Episode 85: ‘The Life of Pablo Part 1’, Ultralight Beam

Sam and Cray dive into Ultralight Beam on ‘The Life of Pablo” from Kanye West. Does the song illuminate the rest of the album in a gospel-centric light?

Making Space for Taylor Swift and My Past

Taylor Swift’s 1989 sums up much of my journey and the decades that have made me the woman I am now.

‘1989’: Everything the Same, Only Different

Joining Swift in gazing at New York is Ryan Adams’s way of hopping into the DeLorean: perhaps revisiting his past can renew him when he gets back to the future.

Sia vs. Swift: A Pop Battle for Our Hearts

Both Taylor Swift and Sia are wildly successful at writing songs about themselves as their personal approach certainly connects with fans. But where these two artists diverge is far more interesting.

Taylor Swift, Anne Hathaway, Their Brutal Detractors, and the Struggle for Identity

“Our grossly inflated perceptions of celebrities as one-dimensional figures are really questions about identity: Are we who people say we are or are we who we say we are?”

Taylor Swift’s Sentimental ‘Love Story’ and Flo Rida Stoops ‘Low’

Taylor Swift gets lost in fantasy, and Flo Rida spouts culturally acceptable shamelessness.