Seeing and Believing: The Magnificent Seven-cast!
Putting together a team of heroes to accomplish a mission. It’s one of the most durable movie stories of all time, thanks to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Kurosawa’s classic has inspired countless...
View ArticleThe CaPC 25 Episode 28: Hell or High Water, Overwatch and Harry!
The CaPC 25 is back for another episode with the movie ‘Hell or High Water’, video game ‘Overwatch’, and the new daytime talk show ‘Harry!’. Special guest Drew Dyck returns along with Richard Clark to...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: Denial and Tower
The film Denial and the documentary Tower is the pair of films that Wade and Kevin discuss that use past events to comment on the present day. The first segment of this week’s show covers Mick...
View ArticlePersuasion: Why Christian Beliefs and Behaviors Can Be So Confusing
Why are Christian beliefs and behaviors so confusing? In the beloved 1987 film The Princess Bride, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) confronts the criminal Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) for his use of the word...
View ArticleThe CAPC Digest: Emotion with Dignity in This Is Us with Abby Perry
Sharing emotion with dignity is the theme of Drew and Tyler’s chat with Abby Perry about her recent article, “This Is Us and the Dignity of Human Emotion.” The duo chat about NBC’s new drama “This Is...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: The Birth of a Nation and Marvel’s Luke Cage
Wade and Kevin welcome guest critic Lauren Wilford onto the show this week as they tackle one of the most controversial films to come out this year: Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation. The trio...
View ArticlePersuasion: Dressing for Success When You Work from Home
Can you be described as dressing for success when you work from home? Be honest: If you work from home, do you put on work clothes before logging hours in your home office? It’s likely that pajamas and...
View ArticleThe CaPC 25 for 2016 Episode 29: All Is Not Lost , This Is Us , and VR...
All is not lost on this epic episode of The CaPC 25 for 2016. Amanda Wortham and C.T. Casberg join Jonathan and Sarah for the first episode where someone’s nomination is rendered ineligible half way...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: Ava Duvernay’s 13th + Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women
Wade and Kevin follow up last week’s discussion of the controversial The Birth of a Nation with another film that courts controversy in a different way. Ava Duvernay’s Netflix documentary 13th digs...
View ArticlePersuasion: Scary Clowns and Other Horrors with Luke T. Harrington
Does your community suffer from scary clowns and other horrors? Reports of nefarious clowns supposedly luring children in the woods or simply staring at passersby has caused quite the uproar in our...
View ArticleThe CaPC 25 Episode 29: 75 Masterpieces, Grace VanderWaal, and the Enneagram...
The CaPC 25 returns with Erin Straza and D. L. Mayfield joining Sarah and Jonathan for this week’s episode. The nominations this week don’t involve video games or movies, but ancient personality tests,...
View ArticleThe CaPC Digest: The Insecurity of the Security Gospel with Arianne Benedetto
Drew and Tyler chat with Arianne Benedetto about her recent article, “False Promises of the Security Gospel.” We talk about the roots of our fears as parents as well as the roots of our political...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: A Halloween Scarathon with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
To celebrate Halloween, Wade and Kevin decide to dig through the horror genre’s back catalog, each of them assigning a previously unseen film to the other. Wade forces Kevin to sit down with...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and Black Mirror Season 3
The guys sit down to discuss Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson’s film about Christian pacifist Desmond Doss’s experiences as an army medic in World War II. How does the new Andrew Garfield-starring film...
View ArticlePersuasion: The Outsourcing of Women’s Discipleship to Para-Church Personalities
Church, women’s discipleship has a problem. Over the past few decades, an evolution has taken place in church-based women’s ministry. Slowly but surely, the church has lost its place of influence in...
View ArticleThe CaPC 25 Episode 30: Dr. Strange, Speechless, and Lore
The spiritual side of things come out on this episode of The 25 as “Dr. Strange”, “Speechless”, and “Lore” make the nomination list. Sister Sarah Kelley is off this week leaving Jonathan in charge with...
View ArticleSeeing and Believing: Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange and Werner Herzog’s...
Dangerous journeys abound in this week’s episode! Wade and Kevin review Marvel’s latest offering about a surgeon who gains mystical powers and explores alternate realities in Doctor Strange, then...
View ArticlePersuasion: Evangelicals Are Having an Identity Crisis
In the aftermath of Election 2016, evangelicals are experiencing an identity crisis. Voting tallies show Donald Trump’s win was greatly swayed by white evangelicals. Some Christians are rejoicing over...
View ArticleThe 25 Episode 31: 13th, Atlanta, and Downton Abbey
The British aristocracy, the downtrodden of Atlanta, and the mass incarcerated make for strange bedfellows on this weeks episode of The 25 for 2016. Special guests Nana Docle, Tyler Burns, and Geoffrey...
View ArticleThe CaPC Digest: Jack Chick’s Tracts of Fear with Amanda Wortham
Jack T. Chick’s tracts of fear were a fairly well known product that many churches and Christians used. During his active time as a publisher, Chick published hundreds of different tracts that took on...
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