We found 7 episodes of Play Saves the World with the tag “book club”.
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Episode 53: The Spirit of Play
April 21st, 2024 | 57 mins 3 secs
book club
The Spirit of God works through play and games to bring about freedom. The conversation touches on the article 'Play and Freedom, Patterns of Life and the Spirit' by Simeon Zahl. It highlights the need to understand the freedom that comes with the Spirit and the danger of idolizing past patterns of faith.
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Episode 49: Book Club: 4,000 Weeks
February 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
book club, happiness, mortality
Oliver Burkeman's 4,000 Weeks argues that human flourishing is rooted in our relationship to time. True happiness is found not in completing tasks but living with incompletion, a sense of our mortality, and a healthy place for obsessions, hobbies, and … play.
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Episode 43: Moltmann's A Theology of Play (part 3) – Christ the New Creation
November 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
book club, moltmann, resurrection, theology
We continue to discuss the seminal work A Theology of Play by Moltmann, who argues that play and games celebrate Christ's resurrection and God's new promised reality. Play is therefore not a distraction from suffering or a trivializing of life but a living out of our true identity.
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Episode 33: Moltmann's Theology of Play Part 1
June 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 17 secs
book club, game theory, suffering
Another glorious book club episode! We dig into Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of Play, published in English in 1972. Moltmann asks if it is moral to play games when the world is filled with injustice and suffering, and answers with a resounding yes. Games anticipate our true identity and freedom, and can liberate us from false identities. "Games ... afford us an opportunity to experiment with free expression and with new human relationships" (p. 13).
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Episode 18: Reality Is Broken! So let's play games that promote positive psychology and collaboration
November 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
book club
We dive into Kate McGonigal's book Reality Is Broken, chapters 10 and 13, where she discusses how games can promote positive psychological research (human happiness and flourishing) and collaboration.
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Episode 15: How Reality Is Broken and We Need More Games
October 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 9 mins
book club, game break, game theory, happiness, neuropsychology
What does Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken say about games and human happiness? Defining a game and its sense of flow is key to understanding what creates human happiness.
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Episode 7: Book Club! The Grasshopper ch. 3 and Defining Games
June 12th, 2022 | 55 mins 54 secs
bernard suits, book club, delight, game theory, obstsacles, quran
What is a game, and why might it matter? Suits says that games are "the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles,"
and we mull over this, along with wondering if there is any basis for thinking God delights in games too.