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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christopher Laurence Examines Catholic Creator Spotlight- Game Developer Andrzej Gieralt  If you’ve read some of my articles here at the Crusade, or heard me on-air, or listened to any of my podcasts, you are largely aware of the things I keep beating the drum about. Those aspects of popular culture that I find troubling, and, more problematic, the Catholic response, or lack thereof, to these problems. So, it is […]

Christopher Laurence Examines - Just Don't Look There are some well-intentioned blogs and new media sites out there covering much of the increasing degeneracy and “woke” influence in film and TV. They were the ones to break the story of Gina Carano being fired from Disney’s “Mandalorian”, and they daily cover the likes of race-swapping Superman; which classic characters are suddenly gay; new pedo-friendly, Netflix cartoon series; new films centered […]

Christopher Laurence Examines Morality & Gaming Part 3: A Dialog, Part 2 In part two of my dialog with film-maker, designer, gamer and Catholic CJ Alley, we examine magic and occultism in gaming, and other moral issues. As I progress in these discussions, and as I continue delving into this issue with these articles, I myself notice further problems with elements employed in video game design — not uniformly — […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Christopher Laurence Examines An Artist Spotlight: Ori Lai/Orikami  My time on Twitter has largely been aggravating, to be honest. But, it has also allowed me to “meet” and interact with people I most likely never would have otherwise. One such person is fellow Catholic and prolific young artist, Ori Lai; or Orikami, as she is known on social media. Ori spends her time on Twitter attempting to extoll the […]

Christopher Laurence Examines Morality & Gaming - An Interlude: Some Moral Clarity  When it comes to the topic of morality and video games (or morality and anything, really) speculation, debate, and discussion among well-formed laymen can be profitable and meritorious. However, it’s always a good idea to also get some clarity from those with a higher authority and greater learning. Therefore, I thought it a good idea to go to […]

Christopher Laurence Examines: Sketching Out Some Truth I say frequently that it is important for Catholics to be subversive when creating or engaging with popular media. To take a Tolkien-esque approach and make grabbing and keeping the audience’s attention paramount, and have the morals and metaphysics of the Faith Trojan-horsed in, beneath the surface. And I mean it. But, I am making an exception in this one instance for someone […]

Christopher Laurence Examines: Morality & Gaming, Part 2: A Dialogue Part 2 of our series on Morality & Gaming is a conversation with CJ Alley. Mr. Alley is a designer, long-time gamer and Traditional Catholic. In this, part one of a two-part interview, Christopher Laurence engages Mr. Alley in a discussion on morality in video games in general, and if and how design decisions within gaming mechanics can incline players […]

Christopher Laurence Examines- Seven Swans, Forty Peacocks & the Operation of Grace “To be alone with me, to be alone with me, you went up on a tree. I’ve never known a man who loved me.” Beauty is an aspect of the divine. And reflections of beauty in human works are one way the divine shines through humanity. Music is one of the great conveyors of pure beauty, as the […]