Topic

Video Games

Play, formation, and worlds we inhabit. What games train us to love.

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Connected concepts

Themes and subthemes Video Games keeps running into.

Key ideas
01We become what we repeatedly do, including at play.
02Sub-creation can delight or disciple us away from the real.

Episodes on this topic
EP 117Jun 23, 2026
Parenting and Video Games, with Nathan Sutherland

Nathan Sutherland of Gospel Tech rejoins all three hosts to talk parenting and video games. Why some games are engineered to overstimulate, how to tell whether a game is the cause of a problem or just a symptom, and a RESET framework (relationships, emotions, sleep, enjoyment, time) for discerning when play forms a child well and when it quietly pulls them away.

EP 83Jul 2, 2025
Christian Dads Talk Summer Tech (Part One)

A round-table of Christian dads on screens, summer, and raising kids with wisdom.

EP 25Apr 18, 2023
Parenting Well in a Digital Age (Nathan Sutherland)

Nathan Sutherland on parenting with technology: the difference between tools and 'drool tech,' and why hedges work better than walls.

EP 19Jan 27, 2023
Value in Video Games (Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra)

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra on a theology of play: when do games simply delight us, when do they disciple us, and how should parents think about both?

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