I’m playing the 2018 city-building game Frostpunk, and I have a decision to make. Frostpunk casts the player as the leader of an isolated city in an alternate-history 19th century in which the world has entered a new Ice Age. The...
Video games can be a site for moral formation—for good or for ill
When we play video games, we make decisions that reflect and shape our understanding of the moral universe and our relationships with one another—and even our relationship with God.
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March 2026
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“American Catholics come from a pilgrim, immigrant church that has helped forge this great nation. We forget that to our ecclesial and national peril.”
Kevin Clarke
