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Pleased to see that I have a couple of articles on this list.
We covered a pretty wide array of subject matter in 2025, including #StarWars, @brucespringsteen.net, “The Odyssey,” Kendrick Lamar, Amazon’s #HouseOfDavid, and much, much more.
CAPC’s Most Popular Articles of 2025 - Christ and Pop Culture
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January 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Pleased to see that I have a couple of articles on this list.
We covered a pretty wide array of subject matter in 2025, including #StarWars, @brucespringsteen.net, “The Odyssey,” Kendrick Lamar, Amazon’s #HouseOfDavid, and much, much more.
CAPC’s Most Popular Articles of 2025 - Christ and Pop Culture
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January 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We covered a pretty wide array of subject matter in 2025, including #StarWars, @brucespringsteen.net, “The Odyssey,” Kendrick Lamar, Amazon’s #HouseOfDavid, and much, much more.
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The series finale vindicated my take on Hopper here, which I’m quite pleased about.
“For all his flaws, Hopper offers a template for holding on to hope in a fallen world, especially for those desperate to right wrongs.”
The Suffering Service of Jim Hopper - Christ and Pop Culture
And, as inevitably as Hopper strives against the darkness of the Upside Down, he also struggles to choose the higher goods before him.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The series finale vindicated my take on Hopper here, which I’m quite pleased about.
For 75 years, “Harvey”—starring Jimmy Stewart as a man whose best friend is a big white invisible rabbit—has been fondly remembered as a gentle, whimsical tale.
However, @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social reveals that there’s more to the film than fans might realize.
However, @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social reveals that there’s more to the film than fans might realize.
Invisible Rabbits and Holy Fools: Celebrating Harvey's 75th Anniversary - Christ and Pop Culture
For 75 years, Harvey has been a gentle, whimsical tale, but there's more to it than fans might remember.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For 75 years, “Harvey”—starring Jimmy Stewart as a man whose best friend is a big white invisible rabbit—has been fondly remembered as a gentle, whimsical tale.
However, @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social reveals that there’s more to the film than fans might realize.
However, @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social reveals that there’s more to the film than fans might realize.
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” “A Christmas Carol,” and John Milton’s poetry are all stories of redeeming transformation that highlight the reality behind the Christmas season.
Capra, Dickens, and Milton on Christmas Redemption - Christ and Pop Culture
These stories of redeeming transformation are ultimately stories of uprooting, as their characters are inaugurated into a new life.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” “A Christmas Carol,” and John Milton’s poetry are all stories of redeeming transformation that highlight the reality behind the Christmas season.
This #Advent season, remember that hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
The Twin Poles of Advent - Christ and Pop Culture
Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This #Advent season, remember that hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
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In honor of #WakeUpDeadMan coming to Netflix, here again is my article about it for @christandpopculture.com: christandpopculture.com/shepherd-wol...
The Shepherd and the Wolf: Wake Up Dead Man Asks Us to Face the Real Threat to Faith - Christ and Pop Culture
In his latest Knives Out film, Rian Johnson explores the scars that anger leaves on the church.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In honor of #WakeUpDeadMan coming to Netflix, here again is my article about it for @christandpopculture.com: christandpopculture.com/shepherd-wol...
Just as Mike, El, Dustin, Will, Lucas, and Max band together to face the threat of Demogorgons, the Mind Flayer, and Vecna himself, Christians are also called to collectively arm themselves with the knowledge, power, and presence of God.
Stranger Things Illustrates the Bible's Vision of Spiritual Reality and Warfare - Christ and Pop Culture
Christians can watch the Netflix hit with a thoughtfulness to their own spiritual reality and allow its imagery to capture their imagination.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just as Mike, El, Dustin, Will, Lucas, and Max band together to face the threat of Demogorgons, the Mind Flayer, and Vecna himself, Christians are also called to collectively arm themselves with the knowledge, power, and presence of God.
“The secret of life, then, is to learn how to live in this story we don’t control. The way to live this secret, I’m convinced, is through friendship.”
What an Old Movie Taught Me About Turning Forty - Christ and Pop Culture
The secret of life is to learn how to live in this story we don’t control. The way to live this secret is through friendship.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“The secret of life, then, is to learn how to live in this story we don’t control. The way to live this secret, I’m convinced, is through friendship.”
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Circumstances have conspired to remind me that this is the 35th anniversary of HOME ALONE's release and that some inexplicably still regard it as a cozy holiday classic. Time to repost this, in which I stare into the abyss of a truly horrifying Christmas movie:
Stations of Home Alone: Three Ways of Looking at a Scream - Christ and Pop Culture
Station 4: "Behold our hero squalling into that mirror."
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December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Circumstances have conspired to remind me that this is the 35th anniversary of HOME ALONE's release and that some inexplicably still regard it as a cozy holiday classic. Time to repost this, in which I stare into the abyss of a truly horrifying Christmas movie:
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For @christandpopculture.com, I examined the subversive spiritual truth at the heart of #WakeUpDeadMan: that sometimes the wolves are the ones who need a shepherd. christandpopculture.com/shepherd-wol...
The Shepherd and the Wolf: Wake Up Dead Man Asks Us to Face the Real Threat to Faith - Christ and Pop Culture
In his latest Knives Out film, Rian Johnson explores the scars that anger leaves on the church.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For @christandpopculture.com, I examined the subversive spiritual truth at the heart of #WakeUpDeadMan: that sometimes the wolves are the ones who need a shepherd. christandpopculture.com/shepherd-wol...
Natalie Bassie Cross reviews #DieMyLove: “‘Rage’ is a poetic way to describe the journey of grieving the identity that was placed on us through people, beliefs, or communities and re-centering ourselves back to who we truly are.”
On The Constraints of Female Rage in Die My Love - Christ and Pop Culture
“Rage” is a poetic way to describe the journey of grieving the identity that was placed on us and re-centering ourselves back to who we truly are.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Natalie Bassie Cross reviews #DieMyLove: “‘Rage’ is a poetic way to describe the journey of grieving the identity that was placed on us through people, beliefs, or communities and re-centering ourselves back to who we truly are.”
Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.
A Death Worth Hallowing - Christ and Pop Culture
Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.
To prepare for #StrangerThings’ final season, which begins streaming tomorrow, this thread highlights some of our favorite posts about the Hawkins gang. First up, how it highlights unseen realities and contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary.
Stranger Things and Our Quest for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary - Christ and Pop Culture
Stranger Things contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary, the normal with the supernatural, and the mundane with the unexpected.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
To prepare for #StrangerThings’ final season, which begins streaming tomorrow, this thread highlights some of our favorite posts about the Hawkins gang. First up, how it highlights unseen realities and contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary.
Although there’s no shortage of romantic themes in Joni Mitchell’s 200+ compositions, many of her songs touch on religion, social issues, and ethical conundrums.
Unraveling Joni Mitchell’s “Mystical Thread” - Christ and Pop Culture
Tracing a renowned songwriter’s lifelong quest for spiritual truth.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Although there’s no shortage of romantic themes in Joni Mitchell’s 200+ compositions, many of her songs touch on religion, social issues, and ethical conundrums.
Grant Dutro reviews Benny Safdie’s #TheSmashingMachine: “Although not overtly religious, ‘The Smashing Machine’ points toward Caravaggio’s ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas,’ where belief is born through touching the wounds of Christ rather than denying them.”
Wounds and Woundedness in The Smashing Machine - Christ and Pop Culture
The film points toward Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, where belief is born through touching the wounds of Christ.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Grant Dutro reviews Benny Safdie’s #TheSmashingMachine: “Although not overtly religious, ‘The Smashing Machine’ points toward Caravaggio’s ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas,’ where belief is born through touching the wounds of Christ rather than denying them.”
Cole Burgett reviews #PredatorBadlands: “Trachtenberg uses the familiar architecture of the Predator formula to explore the kind of generational drama you’d expect from Greek tragedy.”
Fathers and Brothers, Sisters and MU/TH/UR: A Review of Predator: Badlands - Christ and Pop Culture
Predator: Badlands is mythic and weirdly intimate: a cosmic family drama wearing the skin of a sci-fi monster movie.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cole Burgett reviews #PredatorBadlands: “Trachtenberg uses the familiar architecture of the Predator formula to explore the kind of generational drama you’d expect from Greek tragedy.”
In his first piece for CAPC, @johnfea1.bsky.social argues that @brucespringsteen.net may be the most influential political theologian at work today in our current age of Trump.
A Thousand Guitars and the Kingdom of God - Christ and Pop Culture
Bruce Springsteen is the political theologian we need in such a time as this.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In his first piece for CAPC, @johnfea1.bsky.social argues that @brucespringsteen.net may be the most influential political theologian at work today in our current age of Trump.
Beneath the flashy, hack’n’slash combat and surreal, eye-catching visuals, To The Sky’s #Godbreakers quietly wrestles with ideas that feel uncomfortably close to home, given where we are as a species.
The Monad and the Machine: What Godbreakers Gets Right About the End of Man - Christ and Pop Culture
Godbreakers plays like a fever dream of our technological future, asking what happens when we forget that to be human is to be made of dust?
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November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Beneath the flashy, hack’n’slash combat and surreal, eye-catching visuals, To The Sky’s #Godbreakers quietly wrestles with ideas that feel uncomfortably close to home, given where we are as a species.
This #Halloween, writes Cameron McAllister, be on the lookout for the Great Pumpkin. “A kid dreaming of a toy-dispensing pumpkin may elicit a scowl of disapproval or a bemused chuckle, but behind this wish is something more timeless.”
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and the Joys of Wishful Thinking - Christ and Pop Culture
What’s the harm in a young kid believing in the Great Pumpkin?
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October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This #Halloween, writes Cameron McAllister, be on the lookout for the Great Pumpkin. “A kid dreaming of a toy-dispensing pumpkin may elicit a scowl of disapproval or a bemused chuckle, but behind this wish is something more timeless.”
“I found it interesting that death was seemingly the mark of a non-redemptive story in this instance—especially when our source of redemption as Christians hinges on the death and resurrection of Christ.”
Is There Really Redemption in Sunrise on the Reaping? - Christ and Pop Culture
Despite Haymitch’s mistakes, the Capitol and Snow are defeated, and hope was always present amid death.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“I found it interesting that death was seemingly the mark of a non-redemptive story in this instance—especially when our source of redemption as Christians hinges on the death and resurrection of Christ.”
“Of all the directors working today, Paul Thomas Anderson may be the best at portraying honest humanity on the screen.” Dennis Uhlman reviews #OneBattleAfterAnother.
One Battle After Another, Christian Liberty, and Engaging with Art - Christ and Pop Culture
In a world that often collapses tension and looks for easy answers, enjoying art wisely can help form us into better disciples.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Of all the directors working today, Paul Thomas Anderson may be the best at portraying honest humanity on the screen.” Dennis Uhlman reviews #OneBattleAfterAnother.
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is out now on home video. From our review: “What began in 1966 as a sleek spy procedural has, over nearly sixty years, become a modern myth about the sacredness of agency in an age increasingly hostile to it.”
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October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is out now on home video. From our review: “What began in 1966 as a sleek spy procedural has, over nearly sixty years, become a modern myth about the sacredness of agency in an age increasingly hostile to it.”
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“…in their blunt fashion, the #FinalDestination films tap into the gospel truth we try to avoid with protein shakes, exercise routines, and Cadillac healthcare plans…”
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Taking Our Final Destination to Heart: Nobody Cheats Death - Christ and Pop Culture
The Final Destination films tap into the gospel truth we try to avoid with protein shakes, exercise routines, and Cadillac healthcare plans.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“…in their blunt fashion, the #FinalDestination films tap into the gospel truth we try to avoid with protein shakes, exercise routines, and Cadillac healthcare plans…”
See my latest at @christandpopculture.com
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By some counts, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was the most played song of 2024. It’s unsurprising that a song about losing what we love speaks to Gen Z, “the anxious generation.”
The Terrors of “Doin’ Better”: Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” and the Book of Job - Christ and Pop Culture
It's unsurprising that a song about losing what we love speaks to Gen Z, “the anxious generation.”
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October 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
By some counts, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was the most played song of 2024. It’s unsurprising that a song about losing what we love speaks to Gen Z, “the anxious generation.”