Spirituality of PlaySpirituality of PlayWestern society is increasingly play centred, how should we respond to this spiritually? Thoughts and ideas Articles
Jumpers for goalposts 2
2008-04-23 15:44:00 It’s always interesting (and sometimes amusing) to see why people come to my blog and trying to work out what it is they are actually looking for. One of my posts is about a boys football team made up of both Israeli and Palestinian lads that is a small peace initiative around play. I titled the ... More About: Games , Play
Grand Theft Auto IV
2008-04-22 11:49:00 Next Tuesday Grand Theft Auto IV is released, you know, adult content and violence, prostitutes, being rewarded for murder etc etc and so forth. It’s so popular now that even Chanel’s uber dude Karl Lagerfeld has even put together a playlist of his favourite toons for one of the in-game radio stations. What to make of this ... More About: Media , Games , Spirituality , Play
Sims DJ 2
2008-04-11 11:45:00 At the moment I am obsessed by a game on my mobile phone - Sims DJ 2. Basically you mix tracks on a simpled mixer, save them and then have to play them to make Sims dance in a variety of different club environments. If you are bored this weekend or the sermon is particularly bad ... More About: Games
Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008-04-09 17:47:00 Ah I can’t resist a bit of C S Lewis Narnia : Prince Caspian More About: Play , Prince Caspian
Ship of Fools are ten years old!
2008-04-08 15:21:00 Three cheers and more for that bastion of Christian unrest Ship of Fools is ten years old! Comedy gold of the Christian variety with star turns like Gadgets for God and Born Twice plus essential reading for all church goers, Mystery Worshipper. If you haven’t checked it out yet you are missing satire and humour at their ... More About: Jokes , Christianity , Humour , Games , Play
Good People Day 08
2008-04-03 12:33:00 A guy called Gary Vaynerchuk is trying to stop people blogging and twittering and talking about how much money they are making and how great they are for one day (something that is particularly prevalent in the world of advertising blogs) and instead blog about great people and people doing GOOD things. I think it’s a ... More About: Media , People , Good
Adrian Plass on humour
2008-04-02 12:55:00 Well, obviously, the frivolous side of Christian spirituality is something that’s very dear to my heart and yours too since Lent Jokes 1 and 2 seem to be amongst the most popular of the posts on this blog. And Adrian Plass has written some great humourous books about the Christian life, in addition to having ... More About: Christianity , Humour
Christvertising
2008-03-25 11:02:00 Ok - before we start, I know that as Christian s we have seen enough genuinely motivated wierd stuff connected with our faith to sometimes have a problem working out whether someone is having a laugh or not. But that’s what makes this a brilliant satire of not just the Christian wealth myth but the also ... More About: Christianity , Media , Humour
In another life?
2008-03-22 18:21:00 In another life I work for a brand experience company as a Content Strategist for the Digital Communications department. One of the objectives I was set this year was to get some work published and New Media Age have just published my first piece. It’s about how users increasingly seek established brands as an authority ... More About: Life , Play
Power and Pilate
2008-03-20 14:31:00 In my determination to try and summarise a theology of play I?m intending to try and address each form of play separately. I have been focusing recently on power. Easter week seems to be an appropriate time to consider it bearing in mind all the various expressions of power that take place during this ... More About: Christianity , Power , Pilate
links for 2008-03-08
2008-03-08 01:30:00 Barack Obama dancing on the Ellen Degeneres Show Politician plays in order to appear more approachable. (tags: dance play expression politics frivolity power) More About: Links , 2008
Some notes?
2008-02-29 12:17:00 Just thought I would post two unrelated things in this post - the first one is an update on a post I made last year about Internet Evangelism Day. I referenced it in a post last year and this year Tony Whittaker has emailed to let me know that it’s taking place on 27 April ... More About: Play , Notes
Are the Foo Fighters Christian?
2008-02-21 18:19:00 There are an awful lot of people coming to my blog because they appear to want to know if the Foo Fighters are Christian or not. As far as I know, they aren’t. So what now? Will you not listen to their music because they don’t share our faith? Do you believe that God is not ... More About: Christianity , Media , Education , Spirituality
Our hero is back!
2008-02-20 18:52:00 No I am not being premature about Easter, I am talking about Indiana Jones! It’s been too long and since we all need a laconic, rough at the edges, always on the side of right hero around, LucasFilm and Paramount have seen fit to resurrect the old codger. I like Indiana Jones because he doesn’t let ... More About: Media , Play , Back , Fate , Hero
Carbon-reducing Lent
2008-02-14 17:06:00 I went to the first meeting of my Lent course last night (run with St Leonards Streatham and English Martyrs) where we are focusing on more sustainable living. It was an empowering evening actually. While I try and save energy on a day to day basis I wasn’t convinced that my contributions would make much ... More About: Spirituality , Carbon
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3 |
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