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Citizenship Confusion: Breaking the Shopping Habit“The practice of shopping as entertainment can have serious consequences for believers”
How Should Christians Think About Gay Marriage?“Our prayer is that political stances will never detract from the only message that truly matters.”
The Moviegoer: Lucky Life is Like This“Lucky Life deals with suffering, friendship, marriage, memory, death, and faith — communicated in an image-driven, poetic style.”
The Kiddy Pool: Are You Dad Enough?“Let’s shift the conversations on parenthood away from polemical and prescriptive and try to keep a sense of humor…”
Books Besides the Bible: Is Science Fiction un-Christian?“[T]he presence of humanity and the prevalence of humanitarian themes throughout the best science fiction stories is not necessarily a denial of human nature, but often an affirmation of the best in us.”
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Technology Features Archive
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Podcast #31: Shop ’til You Love Jesus!
Posted on November 25, 2008 | 3 CommentsRich and Ben discuss the cultural phenomenon known as Black Friday, argue over a canceled TV show as metaphor for Romans 7, and discuss the implications of living in an iPhone Culture. -
One Phone to Rule them All
Posted on November 21, 2008 | 13 CommentsRichard Clark eats some of his words. -
RetroPost: The Revolution Will Have to Call You Back
Posted on November 20, 2008 | 3 CommentsRichard Clark's take on the (not so?) revolutionary on the iPhone. -
Proclaiming the Gospel, One Forum at a Time
Posted on October 24, 2008 | 7 CommentsAlan Noble challenges us to think first and participate in a forum later. -
How Hulu Changed My Life
Posted on September 29, 2008 | 6 CommentsBill Reichart discusses the personal benefits and pitfalls of Hulu. -
A Theology of Twitter
Posted on July 1, 2008 | 30 CommentsRichard Clark introduces Christ and Pop Culture's new Twitter feed, and discusses the theological implications of the service itself. -
Is TMI making us D-U-M-B?
Posted on May 1, 2008 | 7 CommentsOne of the constant laments here at CAPC is the loss of creativity in the Christian sphere. Really, it’s a funny problem. The church is flung far and wide across ethnicities, cultures, geography, and political spheres. Is it really so hard to find a few creative Christians? -
Getting Our Bearings: A Review of “The Golden Compass”
Posted on December 12, 2007 | 10 Comments“When Polar Bears Attack” is not the name of a new Fox Television reality show, rather it is the only remotely interesting part in an otherwise confused, tiresome, and overly-hyped film. The Golden Compass directed by Chris Weitz, was billed as another Lord of the Rings type fantasy epic film, it falls far short, however. -
Podcast #18: Virtual Communities
Posted on December 5, 2007 | No CommentsThe concept of spending time with and getting to know people is as old as humanity, but recently that concept has been turned on its head. All of a sudden, it is claimed, we have the ability to relate to one another without even being in the same country. With the advent of various communication devices, most notably the internet and its accompanying breakthroughs, the concept of "virtual community" has become a commonly acceptable notion. -
Your Life in 12 Words or Less: the Dehumanizing Effect of Facebook Profiles, Personal Ads, and Eulogies
Posted on November 22, 2007 | 5 CommentsI like to talk. In general, I feel that I usually know what the right thing is to say to a person when they need advice or admonishment. But there's one situation where I don't know if I'll ever have the right words: when a person has lost a loved one. What is there to say that could ever come close to what they are going through? The sorrow, the questions, the guilt, the shock, what words exist that could be shaped to be commensurate to their experience? As difficult as these situations are, imagine if it was your job to summarize the entire life of a person within one or two sentences, not to offer eulogies or condolences, but to give readers or viewers a succinct statement that expressed what the person did with their life. Whenever I read of a murder, a suicide, or an accident, I try to note how the reporter sums up the life of a once living human in 12 words or less. -
The Revolution Will Have to Call You Back
Posted on November 9, 2007 | No CommentsDavid blogged recently about the iPhone, examining what Christians should think of such a device. One observation: “…it has the potential to become a god. Lining up to buy the iPhone may just suggest the worship of materialism that is rampant in our country. It...