Spirituality of PlaySpirituality of PlayWestern society is increasingly play centred, how should we respond to this spiritually? Thoughts and ideas Articles
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
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
Subversive Manifesto
2007-04-20 14:42:00 The inspiration for a lot of my ideas about the subversive nature of Christianity and how it relates to Power and Communal Identity come from Jonathan Bartley’s book Subversive Manifesto which explores the political nature of Jesus’s teachings and looks at spirituality and power together. I thought it was only fair to name check him rather than you think it’s ... More About: Play , Fest
Subversive spirituality
2007-04-12 17:41:00 Easter is a difficult topic. Easter Day is so big, so mystical and, to some, so incomprehensible. Good Friday, on the other hand is so raw, so degrading and brutal that many prefer to ignore it altogether. In doing that they miss out on some interesting lessons for the power of play and Power Play . Jesus ... More About: Christianity , Spirituality , Spirit , Ality
In the wild
2007-04-04 17:05:00 Channel 4 Learning are running a conference on 10th May called In The Wild which is about well being, the web and the future of education. I don’t talk much about education in this blog but of course there is an essential link between play (or perhaps lack of play) and education both formal and informal. Pat Kane ... More About: Competition , Play , Policy
South Park
2007-04-03 00:08:00 I love South Park - yes occasionally I find it offensive to my Christian faith, but I’m in good company, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are “equal opportunities offenders” they offend everyone - it still makes me laugh. Martin Samuel wrote an article today in The Times about South Park (oh get over it, good journalism ... More About: Play
Jokes for Lent 2
2007-03-22 11:40:00 Great comic from choadwarrior at stripcreator.com More About: Jokes , Spirituality , Ritual , Lent
Some definitions of spirituality
More articles from this author:2007-03-20 19:06:00 I have started on my search for a definition of spirituality which works best for this site and have come up with the following selection:- SPIRITUALITY IS THE LONGING FOR DIRECT FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE OF GOD?S PRESENCE IN MY LIFE Howard Rice, Reformed Spirit uality RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IS A RESPONSE TO THAT WHICH IS PERCEIVED AS ULTIMATE, INVOLVING THE ... More About: Play , Definitions , Definition 1, 2, 3 |
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