In my second post ever at The Christian Nerd I wrote that Christians like playing board games because they give us an opportunity to boast. Now we’ll say that we like playing board games because they help us build community while having some good, clean fun. And while that may be true, deep down IRead more
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Earlier this summer Microsoft began its “Games with Gold” promotion on Xbox Live. Every month Xbox Live gold members can download two games for free. I’ve already downloaded Assassin’s Creed 2 and Dead Rising 2. One of this month’s games is Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. Any talk of Magic: The GatheringRead more
Settlers of Catan gets a lot of love here at TheChristianNerd and rightly so. It’s an amazing game that Christians love to play. Christians love Catan because it gives them the opportunity to boast about something. Christians love to play Catan at Chick-fil-A. The nerdiest Christians love to play Star Trek Catan. Christians just loveRead more
I have some amazing friends who got me Star Trek Catan for my birthday. This weekend I finally got a chance to play it and it was awesome. I love Star Trek Catan. I still hate losing. I thought that playing with starships instead of roads, starbases instead of cities and dilithium instead of wood,Read more
On Saturday night Alycia and I hung out with another youth pastor and his wife. Since we were a quartet of Christians hanging out, we obviously broke out the hexes and played a mean game of Settlers of Catan. There are few things that combine the worlds of Christianity and nerdom as well as Catan;Read more
As I wrote about a few weeks ago, we’re doing a Hunger Games series for our youth group. This involves different teams and games based on The Hunger Games. We’re also doing a teaching series looking at different hungers and how, as Jesus said, we can only find satisfaction in pursuing righteousness. Unfortunately this canRead more