Redemption and Restoration in Bastion
Life can be tough for a kid. There’s bullies and siblings and parents. You’re forced to submit to a system that you have no control over and feel like you never will. I can’t be the only one who...
View ArticleGods and Kings and The Greatest Commandment
The notice popped onto my screen and I felt a momentary tinge of shame: Christianity had been founded in a distant land. How could I write on how Gods and Kings, the new expansion for Civilization V,...
View ArticleThe Gospel and Games Journalism
Is there a Christian way to write about games? After working as a freelance games journalist for a few years now, and after being a Christian for several more, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to...
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Game Over: Should We Measure Games by their Usefulness?
Anthropologist Johan Huizinga once called humanity homo ludens, or “man the player.” For centuries, mankind has created various ways of entertaining themselves and each other, whether it be through...
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More Than Fun: 5 Intrinsic Values of Videogames
You’ve heard the reasoning before from pastors, Christian authors, and maybe even people in your church. They say videogames aren’t sinful, they’re just stupid. They grumble about what young men might...
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Jesus Loves Gamer Memes
If you have ever been by the GameChurch booth at a convention, you heard someone from our team say “Jesus loves you.” Its kinda our mantra at GameChurch. Our whole operation rides on the belief that...
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A Fetish for Religious Tropes in Outlast 2
Running from a 7 foot woman in a grim reaper outfit, spewing religious nonsense who wants to plant her equally tall pickaxe in my groin is tiring. I lost count of how often this happened. She always...
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