This is Faith in Play #95: Horror, for October 2025. October is traditionally the month when we discuss magic and magic-related subjects, in recognition of Halloween, an important holiday for many gamers. We have a long list of October articles on the subject, including: Faith and Gaming: Magic Faith and Gaming: Fantasy Faith and Gaming: … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #92: Weakness, for July 2025. Thanks to Bryan Ray for recommending the Min/Max Podcast. This topic comes from one of their early episodes, some years back, which I heard earlier this year. Someone said that Superman was boring because he had only one weakness. My immediate reaction was that’s wrong, … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #91: Home, for June 2025. Thanks to Bryan Ray for recommending the Min/Max Podcast. This topic comes from their second episode, some years back, which I just heard. The Min/Max Podcast got me thinking about home–not my home, specifically, but home as a concept, the place where we feel like … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #90: Nerd Enough, for May 2025. Thanks to Bryan Ray for recommending the Min/Max Podcast. This topic comes from their second episode, some years back, which I just heard. The issue raised was whether any of the panelists on the podcast thought that they were “nerd enough”, that is, were … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #89: Grateful, for April 2025. It was again a television contest, and the contestants were told to create something that represented that for which they were most grateful. I wasn’t paying enough attention to know what they all presented, but it got me thinking. There is an obvious answer arising … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #88: Approval, for March 2025. The inspiration for this article comes from a reality television competition. There are many of these presently, from singing to glassblowing; this one happened to be a cooking competition, specifically baking, and features one particular judge feared for his stern manner and exacting standards. In … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #87: Crosses, for February 2025. Jesus famously called potential followers to take up their own crosses and follow Him. This has led to the expression my cross to bear, which people apply to everything from illnesses to inlaws. I would suggest, however, that none of those things are your cross. … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #86: Tempters, for January 2025. We received a question via our Facebook page. The page exists mostly to alert people to this site and to our e-mail discussion group, but we often interact with people who post or message us there. This was a particularly good question; I shall leave … [Read more…]
Those of us overseeing the web site have been otherwise pressured in 2024, with the result that there is a backlog of articles submitted by members of the Christian Gamers Guild, but the only things that actually got published were entries in the two main series, Faith in Play and RPG-ology. It is a tradition … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #85: Codes, for December 2024. In any village, any city, any region, any world, characters are constrained. They are, of course, constrained by the local law. I have written extensively about that elsewhere, particularly in The Source of Law, The Course of Law, and The Force of Law. That, though, … [Read more…]