Undertale and Advent: Love in Broken Places

‘And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.’ Luke 2:7 Okay, I know it’s a flowerbed not a manger, but you take my point. So this is it: Christmas Eve, the final day of […]

The Joy, the Journey and the Banned

The third candle of Advent is ‘Joy’ or the ‘Shepherd’s candle’. For me that’s three great topics: The Joy; The Journey; and The Banned.

HOPE, the first Advent candle: an MtG-player’s perspective

Okay, first things, first: we’re all geeks here. So, before anything else, let’s ask ourselves: how would the Borg go about identifying the first Advent candle? With that all-important qualifier out of the way, Candle One-Of-Four is about HOPE … … and, in order to illustrate what hope might look like, I want to use Magic […]

Geek pilgrimage

In my last blog post I wrote about the metaphorical musings inspired by watching (or reading) Lord of the Rings. It was while I was writing that piece that I started to wonder when, and why, my understanding of the stories had shifted from imaginative fiction to allegorical meditation? Thinking back, I realised that it […]

Community Spotlight : R-CADE

I’m a Scottish Gamer. I love Scotland and I love games. We are a creative country, we care lots about people and we love adventure. From open world games, to our journeys with pokemon, to cosplay, to role play and art…we love to express ourselves in amazing ways! Scotland has always been an incredibly creative […]

Meditation on Moria

There’s something about Tolkien’s Middle-earth that stokes my imagination! It’s so easy to step into the Third Age where the hassles and aggravations of the real world just slip away. I even get drawn into the extra appendices at the end! (Personally I think they’re one of the best parts of the books! Why is […]

Playing non-casual MtG as a non-casual Christian

I probably do need to apply for rare breed status… While the phrase “Christian gamer” is no longer an oxymoron as such, for more than 20 years now I have been playing competitive-level Magic as a Christian. It never occurred to me that anyone would ask me to write about it; but, since they have, […]