Eric Muhr

May 2010

May 12

The Game

Playing games opens up a world of possibilities in worlds that don't exist. Because that's what games are - alternate realities - and that's what games do. They do away with what is real and ask us to do the same. It follows, then, that in the perfect game, players perform foolish acts for no good reason. And in playing out these harmless...
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May 3

Prose and Poetry

What if all this bad religion out there is a mistake of genre? Doing-oriented American culture tends to think of scripture in terms of prose (especially technical prose). We like to have a resource for easy answers, quick fixes, little pick-me-ups. But scripture is poetry. Poetry doesn't give up its answers so easily. It has to be...
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