Although #TheLongWalk was published nearly 50 years ago, last year’s adaptation proves that its harrowing story of vulnerable people forced to sacrifice everything to survive is all too relevant to our current age.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

“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.”

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:

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

“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.

“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.” More: christandpopculture.com/impossible-m...

“…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 tinyurl.com/3bykz55r

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.”

In their blunt fashion, writes @thewaitroom.bsky.social, the #FinalDestination films tap into the gospel truth we try to avoid with protein shakes, exercise routines, and Cadillac healthcare plans: nobody cheats Death.

H. G. Parry’s “A Far Better Thing” is one of those takeoffs that makes you both love it for itself, and love the book it’s based on even more than you already did, writes @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social.

I wrote this back in 2011 about another Rapture that never happened.

“Contrary to popular opinion,” @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social writes, “race is not primarily about skin color but about people seeking to categorize one another in order to exploit them. It is about greed.” @christandpopculture.com @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social christandpopculture.com/malcolm-fole...

Once again, someone foretold the #Rapture, and once again, they were wrong. It’s easy to make light of situations like this, but maybe they also hold some lessons that we can all learn.

“All that to say, I feel like I know @brucespringsteen.net pretty well. But I did not know until recently that, twenty years ago, he made a gospel album. An honest-to-God record of songs of faith and doubt, sin and redemption, prayer and confession, and a deep longing for heaven.”

“The tragic history of racism can be traced directly to the lust for wealth.” @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social reviews @malcolmbfoley.bsky.social’s “The Anti-Greed Gospel.”

Christianity remains at its best, at its most unanswerable, when we live it out with beauty and winsome communication, with generosity and hospitality—in short, when we look like Uhura. #StarTrek

“At the heart of that community is one woman, one counselor, who demonstrates what it looks like to care for each other well. Deanna Troi embodies care and empathy, and she shows us what this high view of personhood can look like.” #StarTrek More: christandpopculture.com/the-enterpri...

In honor of it being #StarTrek Day, we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite posts related to the beloved sci-fi franchise. First up, a tribute to Leonard Nimoy and Mr. Spock. “Spock’s dedication to a life of controlled emotion is admirable [and] in a sense quite Christian.”

The thing that sets #StarWars apart is the way that Lucas is able to blend disparate worldviews, cultures, beliefs, and metaphysical systems into a cohesive story with true meaning.

Released 5 years ago today, Christopher Nolan’s #Tenet “takes the best of Bond but ditches the playboy schtick, replacing it with complex physics and a band-of-brothers finale, making it simultaneously more cerebral and more relational than your average cinematic intrigue.”

“To willingly enter into a world of vice and violence in order to save those entrapped by it, knowing that it might mean your own death, is a very Christ-like thing to do. In spite of the darkness of the show’s theme, Gi-hun’s goodness radiates throughout the narrative.”

My latest for @christandpopculture.com considers the impact of AI-generated imagery on ministry and worship. “Should we care that art created with the stated goal of drawing human beings into a deeper connection with God’s Word is not, in fact, created by human minds or hands?”

New from @opus.ing: Should we care that art created with the stated goal of drawing human beings into a deeper connection with God’s Word is not, in fact, created by human minds or hands?

As a member of DC Talk and the Newsboys, two of the most successful CCM acts of all time, #MichaelTait has enjoyed incredible success while reaching millions of fans and releasing some of CCM’s biggest albums. He is also a sexual predator. (Originally posted on @christandpopculture.com.)

I'm not going to wade into the Dobson legacy debates, but I will say, this is the memory of Focus on the Family that sticks with me: christandpopculture.com/franz-kafka-...

John Hendrix’s “The Mythmakers” is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated retelling of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous friendship, writes @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social.

“As Christians, we can be both cautious and curious. We don’t know what’s out there. But if someone—or something—is, the gospel isn’t fragile, and our theology is big enough to handle it.”

“Even when his excesses left you appalled, it was hard not to admire the man’s titanic vitality.” Cameron McAllister pays tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.

Turns out, God doesn’t always show up in church pews or devotionals. Sometimes he shows up in consistency, in habits that hold you when your faith feels quiet. Like watching pro wrestling with your family.

Returning to the books and movies and games that marked us in our younger years, we remember that who we are is still, in some way, who we were, writes Brandy Bagar-Fraley.

In his second piece on exotheology, Cole Burgett wonders: Why is it that, when people hear the word “alien,” they picture little green men in flying saucers?

The shock of something outside our own narrow range of experience is a much-needed spiritual tonic for all of us today, writes Cameron McAllister.