In gaming as in real life, teamwork skills matter. When one player didn’t get the memo, the game master makes the kick.
Captain Cassidy
ROLL TO DISBELIEVE
"Captain Cassidy" is Cassidy McGillicuddy, a Gen Xer and ex-Pentecostal. (The title is metaphorical.) She writes about the intersection of psychology, belief, popular culture, science, politics, the arts, and gaming -- video, board, tabletop, whatever. She lives in Idaho with her husband, Mr. Captain, and their squawky orange cat, Princess Bother Pretty Toes the First. No matter how many bookcases she stuffs into her house, at any given time she's running out of bookcase space.
Posted inReligion
The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
In a very real sense, Gracepoint weaponized the deepest yearnings and aches of its prey, then played upon their deepest fears to gain their ongoing compliance.
Posted inReligious News
Gracepoint: Yet another ‘discipleship’ church turns out to be abusive
Discipleship might be the answer to the prayers of authoritarian evangelical pastors, but it all too often becomes a total nightmare for their followers.
Posted inTrue Story
How journaling helped me come home to myself
In a small-town Kansas laundromat, in the pages of my personal journal, I came face to face with someone I barely recognized.
Posted inReligious News
State of the Bible 2022: Yes, of course Gen Z evangelizes more
In trying to find some kind of good news, any kind at all, the study’s creators have hit upon one of the lowest-hanging bits of fruit imaginable. And here it is: Gen Z Christians evangelize way more often than older Christians do
Posted inReligious News
The Southern Baptist 2022 Annual Report is finally here
Thanks to the folks at the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), we FINALLY have the SBC’s 2022 Annual Report.
Posted inGaming
Worldbuilding: How to reject reality and create your own
Long ago, I discovered what it must be like to be a god. I stretched forth my hand and called continents and cultures, animals and cities, sometimes entire worlds into being. I altered the laws of physics and the nature of reality. If that’s not what a god does, then what is?
Posted inBooks, Free Expression
Why Christian extremists are menacing an Idaho library
It’s not enough that Christian extremists in Idaho control what their own children read. They don’t want control of just their own children’s reading choices. They already have that. Instead, they want control over the reading choices of everyone, most especially the children of heathens.
Posted inPolitics
Ammon Bundy: Lying for Jesus, yet again
Ammon Bundy needs attention again, I suppose. After a frenetic summer of grandstanding outside of a hospital, he continues to campaign for public office in Idaho. To help him win the upcoming governor’s race, he planned a September 10th rally at a park in Boise. However, his election committee lied to the park’s governing board […]
Posted inReligion
‘He Gets Us’ is the latest terrible evangelism campaign
As soon as I spotted this ad and realized it wasn’t selling perfume, I forgot all about why I’d gone to that site in the first place.