American Soundings

American Soundings

Rodney Clapp explores the religious dimensions of popular culture

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Our first family

Apr 20, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

If anything remains sacred in our culture, it’s the family. Yet Jesus challenged the family’s ultimacy.

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A browser’s lament

Mar 23, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

My wife and I used to visit a bookstore at least once a week. We can’t anymore, unless we drive 20 minutes to the now nearest one.

In praise of snow

Feb 28, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.

Attack of the zombies

Jan 27, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

All zombie plots include great hordes of the stalking dead. But the genre is maturing.

Myopia of the market

Jan 03, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

Since the years of Reagan and Thatcher, we have heard a steady drumbeat about the limitations of government. But what about the limitations of the free market?

A proper patriot

Dec 06, 2011 by Rodney Clapp

We owe our homeland patriotism, but not just any kind of patriotism—because just as we don't choose our parents, neither do we choose our country of origin.

In a dry season

Nov 11, 2011 by Rodney Clapp

Stretches of emptiness are not unusual in life, nor in the life of faith.