Find anything from an article on the Theology of Play, to instructions and sources regarding how to start a game night at their church or in a small group setting.
It was 1997. I had only just discovered that the bizarre slurry of Indiana Jones references, Father Mulcahy quotes, and random Sunday school flannelgraphs that I had assumed had come together into a working understanding of God didn’t really measure up. Hungry to devour anything that might inform my newly… Continue reading
Welcome Regulars, friends, and those of you who find yourselves here on the next stop of the blog tour. Please be sure to have your tour badge clearly visible at all times so that our tour guides can ensure you have the best time possible while you are here in… Continue reading
It’s been a tradition of mine to highlight some of the games I felt deserved your attention from the Gen Con preview list curated by the folks at Board Game Geek each year leading up to the event. It’s my hope to provide a smaller, easier-to-consume list of especially interesting… Continue reading
InnRoads Ministries was named for the intersection we’ve seen between tabletop role playing games and an illustration made famous from pastor and author Chuck Swindoll. If you have ever played in an RPG that takes place in a fantasy setting, you know that your party will eventually roll into the… Continue reading
It is incredibly rare the I ever have the ability to catch a live showing of Critical Role, one of – if not the most popular stream of folks playing Dungeons and Dragons online. Naturally the pull of a group of talented voice actors getting together to play one of… Continue reading
Convention season has begun. The smell of fresh cardboard and food trucks is in the air. It’s time, once again, for everyone to start talking about what’s happening in Indianapolis. Gen Con is hands down the biggest tabletop gaming convention in the USA, and arguably the largest in the world.… Continue reading
Root has taken on a mythic quality in my gaming life. It’s the white whale I chase across the seven seas in hopes of one day capturing it. I will continue to nail a gold doubloon to the mast to the first person who can help me navigate its waters… Continue reading
When Chara Games’ Unauthorized successfully funded on Kickstarter, we were excited for the game’s potential. It was a good game on its own – which is why it received the InnRoads Approved seal – but there was a unique opportunity in this experience for some intentional gaming to open up… Continue reading
Welcome to Cyclopaedia 36: High Fantasy. Cyclopaedia has been a monthly article on the InnRoads Ministries website. This is the final article of Cyclopaedia and we are finishing the series with my favorite genre of literature, cinema, and gaming. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia are my all time… Continue reading
Welcome to Cyclopaedia 35: Vikings. Cyclopaedia is a monthly article on the InnRoads Ministries website. Whether you are a fan or not of watching the recent Vikings TV series, the Marvel movies with Thor, or reading Icelandic sagas, you likely have heard of and been intrigued by historical and mythological stories of the Vikings. In… Continue reading
