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Faith in Play #33: Psionics

August 4, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 22 Comments

This is Faith in Play #33: Psionics, for August 2020. About eighteen years ago, in July 2002, I published Faith and Gaming: Mind Powers, and thought I had said everything that needed to be said on the subject of psionic powers in fiction and games. It was republished fourteen years later on our refurbished reformatted … [Read more…]

Faith and Gaming: Mind Powers

August 23, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 99 Comments

Most gamers call them psionics, a term coined in the middle of the last century for the idea that we could use our minds to change the world around us directly. But to many, they are just another form of magic, and therefore a danger to the saved and the lost alike. To believe in … [Read more…]