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Corporate-Culture Campaigns With Chests
Over the past three months I was reintroduced to the opportunities, and more importantly the limits of politics as a platform for meaningful, thoughtful and civil engagement with issues that living in a globalizing, evolving and ever challenging socio-economic reality confronts us with. One of the conversations not fully explored was the social and moral [...]
Thinking or Doing – What Forms Desire?
Recently, James K.A. Smith came to Washington DC to speak at the Q Ideas conference. Missing out on the opportunity to hear him speak I was reminded of his most recent book Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. In his book, Smith examines the idea that all of Christian thought and action should [...]
Why We Hunger for The Hunger Games
Big cultural moments sometimes surprise us. While many people thought the film The Hunger Games, based on a popular series of young adult novels, would perform well at the box office, few could have anticipated the blockbuster success the film has attained. After a month in theatres, The Hunger Games has already earned more money [...]
Open Doors: New Congressional Scorecard on Religious Freedom
Did your boss make religious liberty a priority in the first half of the 112th Congressional Session? You may check the results of Open Doors USA’s 112th Midterm Congressional Scorecard for International Religious Freedom to find out.
Imagining a Flat World
If you have been following the recent news, there has been considerable debate around Invisible Children’s latest media campaign Kony 2012, a thirty minute web documentary that has explosively gone viral. Invisible Children’s stated goal of the video is “to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest [...]
Kindness and Co-Belligerence
What is it like to work for Mark Rodgers? Rock stars serenade him, a Presidential candidate listens to him, and people in DC, LA, NYC, and Nashville adore him. I often joke that Mark Rodgers is the most influential Christian that no one will ever write a book about. There’s nothing flashy about Mark. He [...]
Modern Day Abolitionists Through Modern Day Media
Here at The Clapham Group, we actively seek to promote awareness of and equip people to make a difference in the fight against modern day slavery through our engagement with culture. One effort we made to raise awareness of this issue was through the movie Trade. We hosted several Washington DC screenings of the movie in [...]
Songs of a Nation… Culture and Politics
“Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws.” – Damon of Athens, one of Plato’s contemporaries The Clapham Group was built on the belief that culture is upstream of politics, but that does necessarily make culture more important than politics. And with the recent news that Senator [...]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Few effects of the 9/11 attacks proved to be as poignant and heartrending as the loss of parents to so many young children. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close focuses on a boy’s loss of his father at the World Trade Center and his quest to find the lock that fits a mysterious key his father left behind.
Something Old, Something New
If you’re jumping on the comic book craze, collecting everything from Spiderman to Watchmen, there’s still a good chance you’re reading the buggy whip version of the medium. Gone are the days when a comic had to be printed on that old fashioned stuff, what do you call it again? Ah, yes…paper. The computer has [...]
