Articles Archive for June 2008
Enter Into the Great and Disturbing SilencePosted in Film, General Culture on 30 June 2008
A documentary about monks challenges Bill Reichart to sit down and shut up every once and a while. Now, Bill challenges us to do the same.
Posted in Literature on 27 June 2008
In the first installment of a CAPC dialogue, Alan Noble and Carissa Smith discuss whether or not the violence in Blood Meridian is good or helpful.
Posted in General Culture, Literature on 26 June 2008
David Dunham invites you to turn off the television and… well, you know.
Posted in Television on 25 June 2008
Ben Bartlett cautiously embraces the popular television series.
Posted in Film on 24 June 2008
Richard Clark tries to figure out what it was he loved about Get Smart when he was a kid and finds a little bit of insight from the film.
Posted in Film on 23 June 2008
Bill Reichart shows death to be what it is.
Posted in General Culture on 20 June 2008
Alan Noble on why it’s not best to just grin and bear it.
Posted in Music on 19 June 2008
In Christ and Pop Culture’s first guest post, Kiel Hauck explains why Christian hip hop succeeds in all the ways that matter.
Posted in Film, Podcast on 18 June 2008
Richard Clark and Ben Bartlett discuss the Sex and the City backlash.
Posted in Film on 17 June 2008
David Dunham explores five ways movies can put forth a moral or spiritual message.
Posted in Games on 12 June 2008
Richard Clark picks up his Wii Zapper and takes aim at a giant target that takes up the whole screen.
Posted in General Culture on 11 June 2008
David Dunham explores whether a tendency to partake in and enjoy popular culture is sin.
Posted in Literature on 10 June 2008
What would happen if you took a copy of Les Miserables and highlighted the bits about Jean Valjean, that illustration of grace and mercy, and Javert, relentless man of the law, and left out all that other stuff about student revolutions and orphaned waifs and the never-ending Battle of Waterloo? Okay, yeah, you would get The Fugitive. But add in trains, carnivals, cowboys, and the dying dream of the Old West, and you’ve got Leif Enger’s So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a distinctly American tale of redemption.
Posted in General Culture on 9 June 2008
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Posted in Film, Podcast on 4 June 2008
The hype has calmed down a bit for Iron Man, one of the most wildly successful movies of the summer so far, which makes this a perfect time to sit back and have an in-depth discussion about what many assume to be a morally neutral action film. Is it? Or is it something more? Listen as Ben and Rich discuss that, plus our top 5 Sci-Fi Elements.
Posted in General Culture, Literature on 2 June 2008
Daniel Radosh, New Yorker contributor and self-described Humanistic Jew, delves into the strange, sometimes cheesy, sometimes transcendent world of Christian pop culture in his new book Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. The array of topics he covers is itself stunning: Testamints, “Friends don’t let friends go to hell” T-shirts, the Holy Land Experience theme park, The Great Passion Play, BibleZines, Left Behind, Frank Peretti, Bibleman (evangelicaldom’s caped crusader), Stephen Baldwin, the Cornerstone Festival, purity balls, creationist museums, Christian comedy, Christian skateboarding, Christian raves, and Christian pro wrestling.*
