The Grace of Playing: Pedagogies for Leaning into God’s New Creation (Horizons in Religious Education)

by Courtney T. Goto

When Christians are playing together, they are playing at/in God’s new creation—where the faithful lose themselves in exploring a world of possibilities in Christ so that they might live into them more fully. In playing at the new creation, Christian communities attempt to create the world to which Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection point—a place where all of creation can live in justice, harmony, and authenticity. In this play world lit by the Gospel, Christians are called to engage in the creative act of seeing one another truly as brothers and sisters in Christ. In the Eucharist (a structure for playing), the faithful sense the reality to which Christians are called by believing “as if” and being reconciled to one another and to God in the sharing of Christ’s body. Oneness

Eucharist - a form of player