CAPC Magazine, January 2017: ‘Your Best Year Now’
Certainly 365 days is long enough to craft and create the life we’ve always wanted. Right?
Call for Pitches: And the Winner Is…
Write for our magazine! Submit a pitch for a feature article on the theme of “And the Winner Is…”
Interpret Carefully: Balancing Caution and Hope in Responding to Shusaku Endo’s Novel Silence
If there is a faithful interpretation of Endo’s Silence, it comes because the martyrdoms of the Japanese Christians and Garrpe may successfully testify against the self-justifications Rodrigues offers for his apostasy.
Death and the Limits of Online Friendships: Beth Hall Mitchell
Beth’s witness shows that “real” community, with vulnerability and obligations and joy and weeping and love, can exist wherever people are willing to use words to bear with one another over time.
Seeing and Believing: J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls and Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow
Wade and Kevin dive into a vat of familial trauma this week with ‘A Monster Calls’ and ‘Under the Shadow’.
Gotta Dance: La La Land and Singin’ in the Rain Celebrate Calling and Creativity
It’s good to be reminded that when we find the thing we were made to do and learn to do it well, that can indeed bring incredible joy and fulfillment.
The CAPC Digest: Black Mirror, Technology, and the Darkness of Our Hearts with Matthew Loftus
Tyler and Drew chat with Matthew Loftus about Black Mirror, technology, and the darkness of our hearts from his recent article “Nothing is New Under the Black Mirror.”
“An Adorable Triviality”: The Non-Gnostic Knowledge of Jeopardy!
The knowledge celebrated on Jeopardy! demonstrates one aspect of witness: a positive delight in that “adorable triviality” of a universe that was made for more than our own paltry purposes.
Alien and Station Eleven Reveal the Limits of Survival and Human Nature
Two acclaimed works of fiction challenge the notion that mere survival ought to be humanity’s highest goal.
Persuasion: How Sarcasm Is Good for the Soul, with Anne Kennedy
In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson invite Anne to discuss her recent devotional release, titled Nailed It! and how sarcasm is good for the soul.
Getting Down in the Trenches
When people sell everything and seek first the Kingdom, the result is a glorious, chaotic mess of lives, all wrapped up together.
Seeing and Believing: The Best Films of 2016
Seeing & Believing shares its picks of what the best films of 2016 had to offer.
The Christ and Pop Culture 25 of 2016
A List of Our Favorite Things from 2016.
The Christ and Pop Culture 25 of 2016: #5 to #1
A list of our favorite things from 2016, from #5 to #1.
The CaPC 25 for 2016 Finale Part 2: Ranking the List
Top 25 Pop Culture Artifacts in 2016 are finally ranked in a lively round table debate as the CaPC crew returns to finish the job.
The Christ and Pop Culture 25 of 2016: #10 to #6
A list of our favorite things from 2016, from #10 to #6.
