This Week: We continue our arbitrary hallmark celebration with a few more top fives and a whole lot of listener feedback! This time we get a bit more personal: Top 5 Reasons we Love Writing and Podcasting for CaPC, Top 5 Old Things, and a co-operative Top 5 Reasons to Care About Pop Culture.
Every week, Richard Clark and Ben Bartlett sit back and discuss the posts of the previous week on Christ and Pop Culture, acknowledge and respond to the big issues in popular culture, and give a sneak peak at the week ahead. We love feedback! If you’d like to respond you can comment on the website, send an email to christandpopculture@gmail.com, or go to our contact page. We would love to respond to feedback on the show, so do it now! Subscribe to us in iTunes by clicking here. While you’re at it, review us in iTunes! We’ll love you forever!
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I really enjoyed the top 5 reasons to blog about pop culture list. I work with middle schoolers at a summer camp each year, and it is so easy to see the power pop culture has to change the way we think.
One very common response from christians is to draw the battle lines and label pop culture as evil. Sadly, children raised in these homes aren’t taught how to think critically about pop culture when they inevitably encounter it at school or work or wherever.
To me, it is clear that as christians we must learn how to not only shun the evil, but also cultivate and appreciate the good. At very least to recognize both for what they are.
So yeah, great work.
Also, this is a big moment for me to be mentioned in a podcast. The Dane, you better watch out because I am coming after your status as MVP (most valuable poster)
Haha, I posted my last comment before I listened to the end, and the last top five (number 4) made a very similar point.
Thanks for not ripping me apart. I concede it was a subjective list and you watch what you watch. I think of watchability as something I can put in when I want mindless entertainment. Maybe cult classics, like short circuit(?), need a new list. As Ben is to Steve Guttenburg so Rich is to Steve Irwin.
I read magazine and articles from people who are alive and sometime books. I overstate the dead people think because it is annoying to see folk jump on new band wagons so easily because they are not grounded in the classics.