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Oct 16, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Cap Stewart
Cap Stewart
Crosswalk.com Contributing Author
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Oct 16, 2024
Each election cycle, American citizens are readily caught up in hyperbolic language and vitriolic emotions. What’s more, many followers of Christ tend to follow the culture in this regard. What is it exactly about a presidential election that elicits such visceral responses? The answer is likely more complex than one article can address, but there are at least two possible factors involved.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
christandpopculture.com | Cap Stewart
After Bridgerton’s second season premiered, Slate published an article by porn industry producer Noelle Perdue in which she evaluated “sex soaked shows on Netflix and HBO.” In the piece, she addressed the “horror and anger” expressed by Bridgerton’s cast upon hearing that their sex scenes (like those from many other shows) were uploaded to porn sites: “[The] moral panic surrounding the show’s approximation to ‘obscenity’ was confusing [to me].
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
capstewart.substack.com | Cap Stewart |Andrew Klavan |Richard Hanania
In a recent podcast segment entitled, “I Too Admire Sydney Sweeney’s Breasts,” conservative cultural commentator said the following:Everybody this week was talking about Sydney Sweeney’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, and most importantly about her breasts [because of her cleavage revealing outfits]. And I just want to say that I became aware of Sydney Sweeney’s breasts way back in 2021 when she took her shirt off in a film called The Voyeurs.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
christianpost.com | Cap Stewart
By , Op-ed Contributor Not all audiences walk away from a film having appropriately interpreted its themes and messages. Sometimes that’s the fault of the filmmakers, other times the fault of the moviegoers. In reference to the latter, film critic Jeffrey Overstreet writes the following:People misinterpret and twist great art all the time. Many believe Satan is the “hero” of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” It’s possible to read The Great Gatsby and come away seeing Gatsby as a role model.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
capstewart.substack.com | Cap Stewart
Female versions of Frankenstein’s monster may not be new to cinema, but director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things is a contender for the most controversial. With its steampunk backdrop, the film follows a suicide victim reanimated with the consciousness of an unborn child, whose cognizance rapidly develops to match the confines of her adult body.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Cap Stewart
In an increasingly relativistic culture, it is imperative that we remain committed to God’s truth. It is an indispensable asset and a precious commodity—one that transforms our minds, increases our wisdom, affects our speech, guides our steps, anchors our emotions, equips our ministry, and informs our worship. Among the characters in Disney’s 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid is a seagull named Scuttle, whom Ariel mistakenly considers an expert on humans.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Cap Stewart
Among the characters in Disney’s 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid is a seagull named Scuttle, whom Ariel mistakenly considers an expert on humans. Scuttle explains the functions of various manmade trinkets; for example, he identifies a fork as a “dinglehopper,” which he says humans use to straighten their hair.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
christandpopculture.com | Cap Stewart
The alternate-reality plot device has been utilized for well over 100 years, including such diverse examples as the 1884 novel Flatland, C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and the Choose Your Own Adventure series—and those are only examples from the world of literature. In the realm of film, multiverse stories are multiplying like rabbits. The newest addition to this particular cinematic subgenre is the faith-based film The Shift.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
crosswalk.com | Cap Stewart
Legend has it that Saint Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) slapped Arius in front of hundreds of bishops at the council of Nicaea. Why? Because Arius was actively promoting the heresy that Christ was only a created being—like God, but not one with him. In this tale of the kingdom of heaven suffering violence, Nicholas counters with a zealous violence of his own, memorialized not only in Greek iconography, but also in numerous memes that circulate online, especially during the holiday season.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
wfil.com | Cap Stewart
Legend has it that Saint Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) slapped Arius in front of hundreds of bishops at the council of Nicaea. Why? Because Arius was actively promoting the heresy that Christ was only a created being—like God, but not one with him. In this tale of the kingdom of heaven suffering violence, Nicholas counters with a zealous violence of his own, memorialized not only in Greek iconography, but also in numerous memes that circulate online, especially during the holiday season.
