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 RPG-ology #45: Learning, for August 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited: Learning, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. Gamers … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #45: Special, for August 2021. A few decades ago when I was studying Paul’s letter to Philemon I realized that the prayer, and therefore the entire book, was about how God had placed special gifts within each of us, making us uniquely suited for His place for us. Not long … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #44: Left Hand, for July 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited: Left Hand, and has been reproduced here with minor editing … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #44: An Alignment Grid, for July 2021. I thought I had finished discussing alignment, as it appears in Original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons™. I had explained why it was the True Religion of characters in the game world, and described Goodness as beneficence, Wickedness or Evil as selfishness, Law as … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #43: Muscle Memory, for June 2021. We are interrupting our restoration of the Game Ideas Unlimited series for this new game and story idea. I was tying my shoe—something many of us do every day without really thinking about it, but for no reason I paid attention as my left hand looped … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #43: Slavery, for June 2021. On September 16, 2019, then five-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez was apparently kidnapped from a playground in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Ongoing investigations have revealed nothing but a sketch of one unidentified person in the area. A seventy-five thousand dollar reward has been offered for her return. … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #42: Who?, for May 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited: Who?, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. There … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #42: Lucifer, for May 2021. A few months back I looked at a controversial television series and expressed some thoughts on guidance. This month I am looking at an even more controversial television series, Lucifer, and finding another lesson. Yes, the theology is wonky in so many ways, and the … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #41: Over My Shoulder, for April 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. We are skipping another which has already been published, but since this thirteenth entry is itself an … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #41: Faith, for April 2021. Recently somewhere on the Web a discussion arose that suggested that if you build a world in which God or the gods manifest visibly frequently and work wonders regularly, there is no need for faith in such a world. I am persuaded that this is … [Read more…]