It's hard to describe the joy a father feels seeing his children at play, but I can tell you it's real, and I know that God feels it, too.

In many ways, my adolescent relationships are like the church's relationship with games—lacking.

A brother challenged me the other day concerning the work I've been doing. He said, "you preach play when a war is going on." He isn't wrong—a war is raging through all creation.