Spirituality of PlaySpirituality of PlayWestern society is increasingly play centred, how should we respond to this spiritually? Thoughts and ideas 
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Godly play for grown-ups
2007-09-16 22:23:00 I went out for lunch with a couple of friends from the congregation after Church today. We got to talking about the recent conference on children that our church has recently held (I couldn’t attend being somewhat paganly enjoying myself in a fiedl on the Isle of Wight). One of my friends explained the concept ... More About: Play , Grown , Grow
Sport and Spirituality
2007-09-13 12:38:00 Centre for the Study of Sport and Spirituality , which is part of York St John University in northern England has launched itself on the international scene. It is ecumenical and multi-faith and hopes to “tackle what US ethicist Albert Spencer has described as the win-at-all cost mentality that fosters disrespect for competitors and society through ... More About: Christian , Education , Play
Am I fiddling while Rome burns?
2007-09-03 11:44:00 I have encountered a lot of discussion about gun crime in the last two weeks, partly through my own choice (going to listen to a panel discussion at Greenbelt - Gun and Knives and Bleeding Hearts), partly because our new vicar has come from an inner city parish in Manchester and partly because the part of ... More About: Christian , Media , Education , Children , Rome
Foo Fighters
2007-08-31 11:38:00 I’ve got another confession my friend, I’m no fool! However I am deeply into the Foo Fighter s and I just wanted to share my joy that i have just got tickets to go and see them in concert in London! (I have already bored all my friends and everyone in the office) I last saw ... More About: Christianity , Foo Fighters
Greenbelt - The Revenge
2007-08-29 13:27:00 I hope that you enjoyed the pics I sent from Greenbelt I had a lot of fun trying to get some that would work to try and communicate the atmosphere. Here are my highlights in no particular order:- 1. Billy Bragg 2. John Bell’s talks 3. Heaven in a box - art installation made up of boxes contributed by ... More About: Play , Revenge
A Greenbelt aside?.
2007-08-29 13:04:00 Well I am back from Greenbelt with a tan (oh me of little faith) and a sense of a spiritual shake up. While I was at the festival, surrounded by incredibly creative and dedicated people, I started to feel that perhaps the offerings I had made of my own creativity to God had been rejected. After ... More About: Christianity , Christian , Media
Photos from Greenbelt
2007-08-23 13:07:00 Since it is easy to blog throug images I am going to upload from my mobile whilst at Greenbelt. So I have moved up my Flickr feed on the left hand nave - although I won’t be going until tomorrow morning. Obviously I will be focusing on interesting examples of play although the whole festival ... More About: Media , Photos , Play
Buddha won?t play
2007-08-21 15:50:00 There is a list of games on Wikipedia which appears in a number of Buddhist works such as the Vinaya Pitaka (a monastic rule for monks and nuns) and which apparently Buddha would not play. Check it out. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows (note that Chess as we know it was not invented ... More About: Spirituality , Play , Buddhism
Greenbelt
2007-08-16 11:42:00 This year, for the first time in 15 years I am actually going to camp for the whole weekend at Greenbelt next weekend. And I am very excited! Attractions I am looking forward to (in no particular order): Billy Bragg Lies Damned Lies JP Taylor Mike Yaconalli John Tavener (oh my goodness, very excited about this one!) Theo Hobson recreating The Mummer’s Play ... More About: Christianity , Christian , Education , Games , Spirituality
The Simpsons
2007-08-14 17:17:00 The Simpsons Movie is very funny. I thought I should say that before I start intellectualising about it and its relation to spirituality and play. I laughed. You should see it. What is interesting about it is nothing new and surprising - it seems to show a disfunctional family and society and pokes fun at religion and faith ... More About: Play , The Simpsons
Rick Warren and just being yourself
2007-08-01 10:46:00 Fancy having a life filled with purpose? Rick Warren is the leader of Saddleback Church in the US and the author of the book “The Purpose Driven Life”. As you know I am currently intrigued by the TED talks and Rick has given one of them, you can see it here. It’s not strictly about play, ... More About: Christianity , Media , Spirituality
Fate, will and evolution
2007-07-26 13:23:00 Will Wright used to work on The Sims - one of the most popular, gender neutral, games ever to grace an X-box. A while back he createed a new game called Spore which is even less about shoot’em up but still has an edge of grit about it. When you know the subject you will understand ... More About: Media , Education , Evolution , Games , Competition
What if you don?t want to play?
2007-07-20 14:05:00 The problem with being a Christian (an probably with any major world religion) is that often you don’t want to play the same game as everyone else. They might be your friends, you might respect them, but it seems that all too often you are keen to play by a different set of rules and ... More About: Christianity , Games , Competition , Spirituality
Work and play (no rest)
2007-07-17 14:16:00 I have started a new job. I now work for Imagination as the Content Strategist in the Insight Team of Digital Communications. Basically I think up new ideas for clients for web and internet projects. Seems a lot like play to me! Which makes me very thankful and I thought it was appropriate to post ... More About: Play , Work , Rest
Jumpers for goalposts
2007-07-09 19:04:00 I found this story about Gallilee United a football team for boys from 6 Jewish and 6 Arab and Druze communities who play football and compete together. It reminds me of the Christmas Day football match in the trenches, or something more orchestrated such as the peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland at the ... More About: Education , Children , Games , Spirituality , Play
Godly Play
2007-07-04 19:24:00 I don’t touch much on traditional forms of play in this blog, but I think that’s something that needs redress. The Godly Play movement has caught my eye. The principle is that instead of children being told who God is and how they interact with the world instead they find out about his character through playing. Check ... More About: Christian , Education , Children , Games
Holidays/holy days
2007-07-03 09:14:00 I have just come back from my holiday in the West of Ireland. I had a lovely time, thank you. One of the things I came back to was my friend’s ordination at St Albans Abbey. So a holiday and holy day in short succession. Of course, holidays used to be holy days - the ... More About: Holidays , Christian , Play , Ritual , Days
Twists of fate
2007-06-20 21:06:00 I have just finished watching Blood Diamond, a film about the Sierra Leone civil war and the trade in conflict diamonds. Big Hollywood blockbuster, Leonardo di Caprio , Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou and David Harewood. Films such as this make you think and make you humble (regardless how many bullets miss di Caprio before the one ... More About: Media , Competition , Spirituality , Play , Fate
Gun-fight gaming and Manchester Cathedral
2007-06-12 19:20:00 Interesting one this, broken by The Times on Friday. Insomniac have developed a game called Resistance: Fall of Man, an action shoot-em up, for the new PS3. The game scenario takes an alternate history where the Second World War hasn’t happened and in which a strange race called the Chimera have devestated mankind through Asia and ... More About: Christianity , Gaming , Spirituality , Play , Fight
Play and danger
2007-06-05 16:48:00 I don’t know about you but I loved walking home alone, going into the woods alone, playing around the house with my friends, being allowed to cycle to the shop on the other side of the village to buy my own sweets. The idea of a childhood where I could not push the boundaries and ... More About: Christianity , Games , Play , Danger
Neverwinter Nights
2007-06-01 12:43:00 Ok, I admit it, I love RPGs (roleplaying games) and it is only with great difficulty that I have prevented myself hitherto from playing World of Warcraft. So in an attempt to stave of the evil day when I do succumb I am currently playing Neverwinter Nights . The purpose of this post isn’t to wax lyrical ... More About: Education , Games , Play , Erwin
Jesus has a blog
2007-05-30 10:57:00 I kid you not - and here it is http://jesuschristscoolblog.blogspot.com/ It’s funny and there has been quite a lot of serious stuff on here recently. Enjoy. More About: Jesus , Play , Blog , Jesu
Marie Antoinette - work/play/care
2007-05-21 13:10:00 In his book The Play Ethic Pat Kane proposes an alternative to work/play of the play ethic, the alternative he suggests is play/care. This is all very well but I don’t believe there can be a society in which some of its members, if not all of its members, have tasks to perform that are neither ... More About: Work , Care , Marie , Marie Antoinette
In the Wild 2
2007-05-11 16:47:00 Yesterday I attended the In The Wild conference at Channel 4 which I mentioned a while back. The point of the conference was to explore what informal learning might be and what learning “in the wild” might look like - wellbeing, the web and the future of education. It was an interesting day for me because ... More About: Competition , Spirituality , Play , Policy
Irrelevant aside
2007-05-08 12:01:00 I am putting this in here because it makes me laugh, it’s not particularly spiritual, but it is about word play, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Click here to generate titles for the next big tv show…..http://meish.org/2007/05/03/ televisual-gold-guaranteed/#remove More About: Play , Aside , Levant , Relevant , Side
GodTube and Internet Evangelism Day
2007-05-02 15:29:00 Well folks apparently 29th April was Internet Evangelism Day and I completely missed it. Hopefully because I don’t need evangelising, but probably not. Nonetheless, I feel cheered that somewhere there is a group of people actively pushing the internet as a key means of reaching out to people and telling them about Christianity . Yes it seems ... More About: Jokes , Spirituality , Play
Ritual and concentration
2007-04-30 19:22:00 I am a bit stressed at the moment. I am trying to sort out a lease extension. I bought the property I live in in good faith that our payment for a lease extension would be small. It now turns out that it could be pretty large, though I am getting contradictory reports about the ... More About: Spirituality , Play , Ritual , Trat , Once
Bad Christian
2007-04-27 16:19:00 Oh dear - I have long suspected it but it appears to be the case that I am a bad Chris tian , at least according to World View Weekend. They have a test to tell you where you fit on a scale as follows 1. Strong Biblical Worldview. 2. Moderate Biblical Worldview 3. Secular Humanist Worldview 4. Socialist Worldview 5. Communist / Marxist ... More About: Christianity , Spirituality
Hide and seek
2007-04-26 15:01:00 My mind is mainly engaged with Hide and Seek today. Not the game, the festival. It’s the first pervasive gaming festival to take place in London and I am the producer of one of the games. There are a couple of games that have come from across the pond, but one in particular has captured my ... More About: Play
Home from home
More articles from this author:2007-04-24 15:51:00 One of the best things about modern electronic gaming is that you can play with other people. No longer are you simply challenging yourself - you’re pitting yourself against others, or you’re teaming up with them to challenge other teams. You may recall my love of Playstation 2’s SSX On Tour and the fact that I ... More About: Home 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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