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Serious Games, G4C and Peace
Video games can function as important educational tools. But can they go a step further and promote social awareness and change? This question has given rise to the Games for Change movement within the Serious Games Initiative. The Serious Games Initiative was founded in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. The Serious Games Initiative focuses on the use…
Darfur is Dying and The Sudan Web Campaign
Does a game oversimplify and diminish suffering? This is an ongoing discussion in the Serious Games Initiative about whether games can tackle tragic issues, and it is one that should continue. Some historical tragedies such as the Holocaust have not been addressed for this precise reason. If one does choose to create a game that gets folks to think, will doing so change behavior in the…
A Peace Paradigm: Creating Nonviolent Media
The Mission of PeaceGrooves: What we are creating is a new paradigm, a new mythology. Or in actuality an ancient paradigm applied to modernity. We subscribe to the belief that conflict is a part of life, but violent resolution to conflict does not have to be. We challenge those who are in the business of creating media to stop producing games, videos and what not that perpetuate the myth that…
The NEW Virtual Babysitter
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. Why do you not criticize or attempt to understand why your sons (especially, your sons) and your daughters are beyond your command? Forget TV, a new babysitter has come to toyland. The GameBoy. It seems lately that I have seen boy after boy with the little box in hand mesmerized by the images on the screen. Even in church where it seems that parents…
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122 Reasons Not to Scroll Past
Craigslist prohibits the sale of weapons and accessories on its site. Ebay prohibits the sale of firearms, though it does allow some firearm parts and accessories under strict guidelines. Facebook does now officially prohibit the purchase, sale, or trade of firearms, ammunition, and explosives between private individuals. On paper, then, the policy has changed. Originally, Facebook’s policy…
OMG!
Part of the purpose of this blog is to highlight those things that have entered the societal pantheon without question. Call me prudish. Or maybe a responsible parent. But we try to emphasize to our children to be aware of their words. So this OMG! stuff troubles me. Making an acronym of “Oh my God!” doesn’t change the fact that it is a disrespectful use of God’s name. Awareness is not easy…
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Antietam Creek
O’er these banks bullets flew,canon roared, and bodies fell,filling this stream like cordwood,boys dying for these brown skinones floating on black circles ofair under a setting sun. The thunder of old battlesechoes in my head, I, flat on myback on a river running red.
A Day for the World to Say Sorry
From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and RepairA PeaceGrooves ReflectionThere are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds…
True Acts of Valor - Biting Off Buttons
A MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE On this day, when we honor those who “serve” or “who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom,” I felt it was important to highlight those whose acts of valor are not memorialized, who in some cases gave their lives rather than kill others, and whose sacrifice paved the way for more democratic freedoms for citizens whose conscience objects to them going to…
Weapons of Righteousness
Serving As God’s Instruments of Shalom – A Sermon Scripture: Romans 6:1-14 Introduction I have a confession to make. The last time I was in a mall, I was pretty anxious. Now, I have never really been a big fan of malls. The hard surfaces wreak havoc on my feet and back, so the week following a mall trip, I tend to be pretty sore. My mind can be overstimulated by the plethora of sights and…
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NEW Release: Keepers of the Concord RPG Soundtrack by Dusty Rhymes
PeaceGrooves Productions is excited to announce the world-wide release of the album Keepers of the Concord as a musical companion to the Keepers of the Concord RPG developed by PeaceGrooves. Each song serves as melodic tribute to the history and the races of the world of Seldara. The hyperlink page from Distrokid is…
Dialogue: The Unarmed Prophet and the Armed World
Florence. Night. The Piazza della Signoria is empty, though the stones still remember fire. The ghost of Girolamo Savonarola stands near the place where he was hanged and burned. Niccolò Machiavelli enters, older now, carrying a manuscript beneath his arm.SAVONAROLA:You return to the place of ashes, Messer Niccolò.MACHIAVELLI:Florence has many places of ashes, Fra Girolamo. Yours is only the most…
Strategic Praying for Peace
I am a recovering humanist (see my most recent sermon). When I am overwhelmed with the suffering and chaos in the world, often my first thought is that if we just find the right plan, solution, or strategy then things will get better. I find myself trusting in human actions more so than in a God who is (whether I can see it or not) active in the world. Often with good intentions and passion I…
Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases
Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance. The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces…
The Decisive Revolution
“Jesus is risen. The decisive revolution in world history has happened – a revolution of all-conquering love. If people would fully receive this revealed love into their own existence, into the reality of the ‘now’, then the logic of insanity could no longer continue.” There are some lines that feel less like commentary and more like a struck bell. Rudi Dutschke’s Easter words are like that.…
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See and Be Seen
One of the simple rules of flight is this: see and be seen. A pilot must watch carefully for other aircraft, must not move through the sky as though alone, and must also fly in such a way that others can recognize the pilot’s presence. It is a phrase born of danger, awareness, humility, and shared responsibility. The air is wide but not empty. No one flies in isolation for long. To move safely…
A Trip to the Moon
History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is…