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Faith in Play #68: Prayer

July 4, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #68:  Prayer, for July 2023. This arose in discussion on the Christian Gamers Guild mailing list.  It seems that someone mentioned a new role playing game in which players were expected to verbalize the in-game prayers of their fictional characters to the real God.  Guild members had mixed reactions to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: c.s. lewis, character, christian, christian gamers guild, cleric, CS Lewis, deity, faith and gaming, fiction, game, god, gods, i game, identification, improvisation, jesus, multiverser, prayer, roleplaying game, worlds

Faith in Play #61: Christian D&D

December 6, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #61:  Christian D&D, for December 2022. Someone I have known online probably since I first became Chaplain of the Christian Gamers Guild recently read my recently republished book Do You Trust Me? (and made some positive comments about it), but then messaged me thus: …in your book Do You Trust … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: advanced dungeons & dragons, angels, basic dungeons & dragons, bible, c.s. lewis, christian game, christian gamers guild, christian games, competitive, cooperative, cosmology, cross, D&D, dave arneson, demons, devil, do you trust me, dungeons & dragons, elijah, elisha, faith and gaming, fantasy, gary gygax, george macdonald, gideon, good and evil, harry potter, Holmes edition, j.k. rowling, j.r.r. tolkien, joshua, madeleine l'engle, magic, magic symposium, medieval, moses, Narnia, paladins, resurrection, solomon, spells, spiritual battle, the way the truth and the dice, vampires, weapons

Faith in Play #55: Marriage

June 7, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #55:  Marriage, for June 2022. I have written quite a bit about marriage over the years; I’ll not endeavor to list anything here.  It strikes me, though, that although in my fiction I’ve had several weddings and character marriages, and in my games likewise, I haven’t written much about marriages … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: aliens, characters, christian, elves, faith and gaming, fiction, Game Ideas Unlimited, gender, marriage, polyandry, polygamy, promiscuity, rpg-ology, sex

Faith in Play #50: Mercenaries

January 4, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #50:  Mercenaries, for January 2022. Recently my attention was called to our article Faith and Gaming:  Warriors, written about two decades ago, the first entry in our miniseries on Archetypes, looking at types of characters and how they reflect and challenge our faith.  I remembered that I followed it with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: archetypes, bryan ray, dave mattingly, faith and gaming, integrity, Jason Vasché, John Stieber, knights, loyalty, mercenaries, mercenary, michael garcia, rodney barnes, tim brown, war, warriors

Faith in Play #41: Faith

April 6, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 2 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: Abraham, faith, faith and gaming, george washington, god, gods, paul, trust

Faith in Play #36: Thanks

November 3, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #36:  Thanks, for November 2020. Later this month Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving, a secular holiday established for religious people to give thanks to God.  Canadians did the same in the middle of last month.  Most cultures and nations historically have had a harvest festival celebration to express gratitude for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: Americans, calendar, Canadians, celebration, chaplain, christian gamers guild, conventions, faith and gaming, festival, god, good guys, gratitude, harvest, holiday, patreon, paypal, Pentecost, store, swag, thanks, thanksgiving, worship service

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…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: athanasius, bible, deuteronomy, deuteronomy 18, devotional, faith and gaming, false religion, fiction, game, gods, occult, psionics, psychic, reading, religion, st athanasius, st augustine, tattoos

Faith in Play #26: Fields to Harvest

January 7, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #26:  Fields to Harvest, for January 2020. Last month I wrote about the impact the Christian Gamers Guild has had on Christians and on gamers.  I noted that there were now many other “geek ministries” trying to make a difference.  In fact, between when I wrote that article and when … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: anime, articles, belief, c.s. lewis, cgg, cosplay, CS Lewis, dave arneson, ENWorld, faith and gaming, faith in play, Game Ideas Unlimited, Gaming Outpost, gary gygax, Ken Hite, Kenneth Hite, MysticAgesOnline, places to go people to be, roleplayingtips.com, rpg-ology, rpgnet, Tracy Hickman

Faith in Play #8: Redemption Story

July 3, 2018 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 1 Comment

This is Faith in Play #8:  Redemption Story, for July 2018. Years ago I wrote Faith and Gaming:  Redemption, which was republished last spring.  In it I made the distinction between the “Prodigal Stories” that we sometimes call stories of redemption and the real “Redemption Story”, the story of how the price was paid, how … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: aslan, c.s. lewis, chronicles of narnia, darth vader, faith and gaming, fantasy, gaming, harry potter, j.k. rowling, mjyoung, Narnia, pikachu, pokemon, prodigal, redemption, role-playing, roleplaying, roleplaying game, rpg, star wars

RPG-ology #1: Near Redundancy

December 19, 2017 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 1 Comment

This is RPG-ology #1: Near Redundancy, for December 2017. If it seems to you like I just launched a new article series two weeks ago, congratulate yourself on your astute observation: Faith in Play #1: Reintroduction just appeared. That series is in a real sense a continuation of the Faith and Gaming series of a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: dave arneson, faith and gaming, faith in play, Game Ideas Unlimited, Gaming Outpost, gary gygax, Jeu de Rôle, multiverser, places to go people to be, rpg-ology, the forge
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