Spirituality of PlaySpirituality of PlayWestern society is increasingly play centred, how should we respond to this spiritually? Thoughts and ideas 
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links for 2008-02-13
2008-02-13 01:43:00 Recovery of Liturgy & Ritual in the Emerging Church at Jason Clark Very interesting article about how societies has adopted secular, consumerist liturgies and how emergent churches also adopt their own liturgies of informality, prayer etc. Also investigates why traditional liturgies are helpful for spiritual life - altho (tags: liturgy ritual play participation emerging church prayer ordinary ... More About: Links , 2008
Lighten your Lent
2008-02-06 16:15:00 Welcome to Lent. I have had a lot of people looking for Lent jokes come to my blog over the last fortnight looking for Lenten jokes. The only new ones I could find specific to Lent so that I could add a page “Lent 3″ for this year’s Lent were about baptising a lamb chop ... More About: Jokes , Christianity , Christian , Humour , Spirituality
links for 2008-02-05
2008-02-05 01:41:00 Imaginative play and Science are the same thing Interesting thought piece. If scientific theories tell us not only about the world but what is possible and “pretend” helps us to map what is possible - so science and fiction are 2 sides of the same coin. (tags: science play imagination imaginary question possible worlds) Love Life Live Lent ... More About: Links , 2008
Anti-play
2008-02-01 18:46:00 What would anti-play look like? I am not talking about the work ethic as I don’t believe the work ethic is anti-play, rather it priorities work above play, it gives play a lesser value. Anti -play would be something that is contrary, set against the types or rhetorics of play and it might be subversively good ... More About: Power , Play
links for 2008-01-26
2008-01-26 01:45:00 Paradoxology: A Theology of “Play” An interesting dissection of a book called The Christian at Play. (tags: play theology thinking mission God prayer christianity) Play and the Purposes of the Lord An interesting assessment of play vs work and how that can relate to our relationship to God (tags: work ethic play God self-actualisation prayer reality) ... More About: Links , 2008
Playful books
2008-01-25 19:12:00 New year, new you and all that, so I thought it might be of interest to you to list a selection of books that are good when considering a playful approach/understanding to/of God and Christian spirituality. Don’t be surprised, they are mostly not at all by Christian writers but God has never much cared about that. ... More About: Power , Books , Play , Ritual , Fate
?I want to write songs?
2008-01-19 00:43:00 No - I don’t actually want to write songs - although I do have dreamy moments in which I am a better song writer than Alex Turner (of the Arctic Monkeys) or Elton John/Bernie Taupin (once they parted company it was never as good) - I actually want to write novels. Tonight I watched two totally ... More About: Christian , Songs , Spirituality , Play , Write
links for 2008-01-16
2008-01-16 01:39:00 Beara Seeds Home This is my fiance’s new business. It represents a real step out of the comfort zone, but growing from seed and the whole are of plants and gardening are something he truly loves. If you could bear him in mind in your prayers I would really appreciate it. (tags: prayer seed gardening gardens flowers ... More About: Links , 2008
A bit late?
2008-01-07 18:16:00 I am obviously a bit late on this but I found out today that Jonathan Edwards lost his faith, six months after it was reported in the Times. This depresses me. I am depressed not because he has lost his faith, but because it took him so long to lose it. Read the article if you are ... More About: Christian , Spirituality , Play , Fate , Late
James May - Driving like a Christian
2008-01-02 13:17:00 This video isn’t strictly about play but it made me laugh. Oh ok, if I have to tie it in it shows how you can express communal identity through playing with and so challenging ideas about how to conduct yourself socially. Subverting society through Christian ity…happy now? More About: Media , Humour , Driving , Play
Merry Christmas!
2007-12-26 15:57:00 I wish you all a merry and playful Christmas and hope that you don’t get too angry over the Monopoly! More About: Christian , Humour , Games , Play
PSP squashed?or is it?
2007-12-19 18:56:00 You’ll know that I have had some thoughts about the nature of a PSP and whether or not OFCOM should look to create/fund one. To summarise these thoughts are:- Yes they should Not in the way that they are currently proposing to do so The Register is obviously wholeheartedly against this idea, qed their referring to it as ... More About: Media , Play , Policy
links for 2007-12-13
2007-12-13 01:35:00 What Makes a Woman an Intellectual? (Intellectuelle) Interesting discussion from the blog of a group of female theological types (tags: theology female women thinking) BBC NEWS | Education | Play and learning children’s plan AT last The Children’s Plan “promises more safe places for children to play - with £225m for upgrading 3,500 playgrounds and the creation of an ... More About: Links
The Spirit of Christmas
2007-12-10 15:56:00 A great cartoon from The Cartoon blog called Playlist that really embodies the modern spirit of Christmas for me… http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/12 /06/playlist/ More About: Jokes , Christian , Humour , The Spirit
The Golden Compass
2007-12-06 12:13:00 So then, The Golden Compass opens on 7th December in London, just in time for the holiday market. Note I didn’t say the Christmas market because of course Northern Lights (the name of Phillip Pullman’s trilogy in England) is to atheism what The Chronicles of Narnia are to Christianity , not so appropriate for Christmas then one would think. ... More About: Media , Power , Children , Ritual
links for 2007-11-29
2007-11-29 01:41:00 Help play! Jesper Jul, the ludologist, wants testers for his experimental games (tags: games gaming play test ludology ludologist) The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses | Cracked.com It’s all there in black and white. (tags: christian christianity Bible humour verses) More About: Links
links for 2007-11-27
2007-11-27 01:47:00 Faith Central - Times Online - WBLG: Lyrical terrorist defended Rod Liddle’s description of life on the “air” side of Heathrow made me laugh…not the poems of the rapper obviously… How to Doggedly Pursue Your Dreams in the Face of Naysayers | zen habits | simple productivity Dream on dreamer - and nil illegitibus carbarundum More About: Links
Psalms and Eucharist
2007-11-21 13:25:00 You may remember the Bishop of Southwark’s disastrous pub crawl around the West End last Christmas and his ungracious return home? (If not why not refresh your memory on the BBC’s news site.) To commerate that historic event but more importantly to raise money for Kids for Kids, the humour mongers at Ship of Fools will ... More About: Christian , Humour , Play , Psalms , Eucharist
links for 2007-11-21
2007-11-21 01:38:00 The lesbians of Lambeth Palace : November 2007 : Holy Smoke : UK : Telegraph Blogs A bit of light relief - particularly the bit about figure skating. Is there something about the clergy that makes them particularly suited, skating on thin ice?… (tags: Lambeth lesbian Archbishop figure-skating) Islam for beginners | Media | The Guardian This treats religion ... More About: Links
Define a game
2007-11-20 18:24:00 hmmm….not as easy as it sounds is it? I spent a pleasurable lunch time arguing with 2 friends (David Bausola, a strategist, and Alex Fleetwood a film producer/game producer type) about what a game is. We came up with various suggestions such as: a game has to have a winner/a definite conclusion (but what about Stuck-in-the-Mud); a game ... More About: Play , Game , Define
Top twelve toys for Christmas
2007-11-15 15:23:00 Because I like lists and because I like Christmas and because I like toys and playing with them (though I am way beyond the age at which one should admit to such things) here is the list of the top 12 toys for Christmas 2007 as chosen by The Toy Retailers association (in alphabetical order):- Are ... More About: Power , Children , Toys , Games
New marches in Burma
2007-10-31 12:01:00 News update from the Ekklesia website on new marches by the monks in Burma . http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6057 More About: Play , Marches
What stops you commenting?
2007-10-30 15:29:00 I found this post http://servantofchaos.typepad.com/soc/200 7/10/what-stops-you-.html on a branding and storytelling blog I read occasionally. It was in turn found on another blog. I wondered if there were different things that stopped people commenting on a blog about spirituality/religion than on one more business related. From my own point of view I often won’t comment because I am ... More About: Play , Stops , Commenting
Unreconstructed Catholic, unreconstructed Aussie
2007-10-26 14:57:00 Please please watch Father Bob. If you are Protestant you will find it hilarious, if you are Catholic or particularly high CofE you will find it even more so. An unapologetic priest from South Melbourne shows John Safran the ropes at St Peter’s and St Paul’s. With thanks to this post on Damian Thompson’s blog. More About: Christianity , Christian , Media , Spirituality , Play
The Soho Project
2007-10-25 10:47:00 Check out a new short ARG from a bunch of players, including my mates Dan Hon and Alex Fleetwood, and led by Fictional Media. http://www.fictionalmedia.co.uk/2007/ But you’ll need to be quick it’s over at the end of the week! More About: Play , Project , Soho
Break in posting
2007-10-23 15:39:00 Sorry for the break in posting - I have just been to Australia for my cousin’s wedding and I have to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed every frivolous, self-actualising moment of it. It also brought home to me how privelleged those of us are who can take regular holidays, who have holiday allocation. I am ... More About: Play , Break
Following on - Burma/Myanmar
2007-10-02 13:13:00 Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post. This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in ... More About: Buddhism , Myanmar , Burma
What is happening in Burma/Myanmar?
2007-10-01 17:14:00 The peaceful protest of the buddhist nuns and monks against the dictatorial regime in Burma/Myanmar seems as far from playful as it’s possible to get. Certainly the Chinese sponsored government is not playing in the most common sense of the word in its brutal attempts to quash the protests. They have cut off access to ... More About: Power , Spirituality , Fate , Buddhism
Towards a spirituality of play
2007-09-20 15:01:00 Right - I have been doing some thinking and assessing. I have not stated what ideas would outline a spirituality of play. I have talked about play and about spirituality but not the two together explicitly. So in an attempt to move towards that…. 1. God is inherently playful - all aspects of play are aspects ... More About: Education , Children , Spirituality , Play , Ritual
How movies helped save my soul
More articles from this author:2007-09-18 15:12:00 As part of my quest to learn more about other people writing and thinking about play and Christian spirituality I picked up this book at Greenbelt “How Movies Helped Save My Soul“. It’s written by Gareth Higgins, a writer whose blog, God Is Not Elsewhere covers God, movies and politics amongst other things. I’m enjoying it ... More About: Christianity , Media , Play 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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