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Faith and Gaming: Redemption

March 28, 2017 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Some time back, someone asked me whether particular kinds of stories were inherently Christian stories, and I didn’t have an answer at that moment. I have since suggested, notably in considering Faust, Sorcerer, and Deals with the devil, that some stories might indeed be at least strongly if not inherently Christian. However, the questioner was … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: anakin skywalker, c.s. lewis, chronicles of narnia, darth vader, faith, faith and gaming, faust, gaming, george lucas, leia organa, leia skywalker, luke skywalker, mjyoung, obi-wan kenobi, padme amidala, palpatine, prodigal, prodigal son, r2-d2, redemption, salvation, sorcerer, star wars

Real and Imaginary Violence

February 21, 2017 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 1 Comment

Role playing games have been criticized for many things that are easily explained. Readers of this magazine don’t need to hear why the involvement of magic, false gods, or demons and devils isn’t a real objection to role playing per se. Or hear why it doesn’t matter if we play with non-Christians whose characters may reject God and His morality even more … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, The Way the Truth and the Dice Tagged: battle, c.s. lewis, combat, D&D, dungeons & dragons, fight, fighters, fighting, law, legal, military, movies, perelandra, police, robert heinlein, roleplaying, satan, soldiers, sports, starship troopers, video games, violence, war, warfare, x-com

Faith and Gaming: Battle

January 3, 2017 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

It happens that as I write this the world again stands on the brink of war, although as you read it that war probably will have been resolved. I’m old enough to know that this happens with alarming frequency, and that whenever it does happen there will be people arguing about whether the pending or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: c.s. lewis, combat, faith, faith and gaming, fight, fighting, gaming, iraq, iraq war, iraqi freedom, killing, lewis carroll, military, mjyoung, violence, vivisection, war

Faith and Gaming: Pagans

December 20, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 5 Comments

Late last year (2002 at the time of this writing), on what I hope I may be excused for calling an inauspicious day, someone known to me only by an Internet screen name, somewhere else in these United States, was persecuted for being a gamer.

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: agnosticism, atheism, c.s. lewis, faith, faith and gaming, fear, gaming, god in the dock, is theism important, paganism, persecution, protest, religion

Faith and Gaming: Imagery

December 6, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Eight months ago we began exploring ways of bring our faith to bear on our games. In that time, we looked at quite a variety of ideas. We said that you could play the Good Guys, characters who shared at least part of your faith; but that you could also play the Bad Guys, showing … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: aslan, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, c.s. lewis, chronicles of narnia, faith, faith and gaming, frodo, gaming, gandalf, images, images of faith, j.r.r. tolkien, lord of the rings, marty mccall, metaphor, mjyoung, symbolism, symbols, the door magazine

Faith and Gaming: Awe

November 8, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

I was looking back at the article Good Guys in this series, as it discussed how we can bring our faith into our games by playing characters who directly express that faith, when it suddenly occurred to me that I could not remember a character playing that sense of awe we sometimes have when we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: aladdin, c.s. lewis, charles williams, divine, divinity, djinn, djinni, faith, faith and gaming, fear, gaming, genie, gods, mjyoung, multiverser, paul, saint paul, trembling, zeus

Faith and Gaming: Fantasy

September 27, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Often you will get advice from Christians suggesting that if you want to play role playing games as a Christian you need to remove the magic from the games. Don’t play the wizards, whatever you do; and if you have the choice, stick to science fiction games, or espionage or western or other settings in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: c.s. lewis, charles williams, espionage, faith, faith and gaming, fantasy, gaming, j.r.r. tolkien, magic, miracles, mjyoung, role-playing, roleplaying, science fiction, The Expositor, western, wizards

Faith and Gaming: Bad Guys

September 13, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Last month as we explored ways to express our faith in our gaming, we suggested that it could be done by playing the Good Guys. But we also insisted that this was not the only way it could be done. In fact, quite unexpectedly, we can often bring our faith to bear on a game … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: aesop, assassin, c.s. lewis, D&D, dungeons and dragons, evil, faith, faith and gaming, gaming, good, good and evil, gordon college, heroes, howard bussell, lord of the flies, mjyoung, multiverser, salvation, villains, william golding

Faith and Gaming: Christian Games

August 2, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Last month’s installment of Faith and Gaming, Making Peace, was the twelfth in the series. We’ve been talking about the integration of faith and gaming for a year now; and that in itself could be a call to go back to the beginning and consider our basic purpose. But I recently read these words in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: bridge, c.s. lewis, cactus game design, cactus games, christian game, christian games, christian life, conduct, D&D, dungeons & dragons, faith, faith and gaming, game design, gaming, journeys of paul, lewis, monopoly, multiverser, Narnia, pinochle, screwtape, screwtape letters, space trilogy, vampire: the masquerade, white wolf, world of darkness

Faith and Gaming: In Vain

June 28, 2016 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Last month as we concluded our consideration of Magic, we raised a bigger issue: is it appropriate for characters in a fictional world to call upon any deity? It is not a simple question. At every turn God has commanded that we have no regard for other gods; it is top of the list in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith and Gaming Tagged: aslan, atheism, blasphemy, c.s. lewis, evil, faith, faith and gaming, gaming, good, good and evil, j.r.r. tolkien, magic, maleldil, multiverser, name of god, Narnia, role-playing, roleplaying, rpg, space trilogy, tolkien, world building, YHWH
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