The Christian Gamers Guild has many facets to its ministry, as we seek to reclaim the imagination to be conformed to the image of Christ through the use of gaming as a creative art form.
One of those aspects is support for Christians involved in gaming. Much of that support is realized through our interactive e-mail group, as Christians from around the world who are gamers share their thoughts and experiences with each other. But the mission goes beyond that. This section of the web site contains articles and links geared to edify and challenge Christians as they live their faith in their games.
Questions about any of this can be directed to the Christian Gamers Guild Board of Directors; some of the authors of individual articles have also included e-mail addresses in their biographical materials, linked from their articles individually.
This is Faith in Play #79: Mind, for June 2024. I often receive questions from readers in comments or by e-mail, on a wide range of subjects. Recently a girl (woman?) wrote about a concern she has related to role playing games: should we be filling our minds with these thoughts and images? Or, as … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #78: Recoil, for May 2024. One of the purposes of this series, drawn from its predecessor Game Ideas Unlimited, is to provide you with tools you might use in your games. This might be one of those tools. Some years back at The Forge a designer was seeking a way to make … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #78: Stakes, for May 2024. In my book Why I Believe I wrote, “Tests are merely games, and if you go into them thinking of them as games and relax and enjoy playing, you will perform better. What makes people nervous is not the game but the stakes.” I had … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #77: Wounds, for April 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Wounds, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #77: Animals, for April 2024. We’ve talked about animals before. Faith and Gaming: Animals discussed their perceptions of reality in the context of whether they were praising God outside our knowledge, and last year RPG-ology #65: Dog (a recovered Game Ideas Unlimited article) discussed how animals think, as a pointer … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #76: Derivative, for March 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Derivative, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #76: Lineage, for March 2024. Lineage–the chain of ancestry from father to son over generations–is a very significant theme in the Bible, more so than even many serious students of the Bible realize. We recognize that the Old Testament is laced with family records covering centuries, and that in the … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #75: Flashbacks, for February 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Flashbacks, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #75: Tourette’s, for February 2024. Late in the twentieth century there was a fair amount of publicity given to a neurological disorder known as Tourette’s Syndrome. Sufferers cursed and swore uncontrollably and seemingly randomly, usually with a physical tic as they did. It was embarrassing and awkward. I have a … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #74: Senseless, for January 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited: Senseless, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]