CONCURRENTLY: Video gaming and creation rhythms

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The headlines blame video games for all sorts of problems among kids and teens. But are video games the culprit? Or does gaming serve a purpose in our God-ordained rhythms of work and rest?We would love to hear from you. You can send us a message at newscoach@wng.org (mailto:newscoach@wng.org). What current events or cultural events are you wrestling through with your kids and teens? Let us know. We want to work through it with you.See more from the News Coach (https://gwnews.com/newscoach/), including episode transcripts.Further Resources:* Read or listen to “Gaming Alone: Helping the Generation of Young Men Captivated and Isolated by Video Games” (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gaming-alone/) by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra at The Gospel Coalition.* * Read “The Case for Taking Video Games Seriously” (https://christandpopculture.com/the-case-for-taking-video-games-seriously/) by Patrick Miller at Christ and Pop Culture.* * Learn more about the rhythms of rest and work (https://www.theologyofwork.org/key-topics/rest-and-work-overview) modeled in the Bible.Concurrently is produced by God’s WORLD News. We provide current events materials for kids and teens that show how God is working in the world. To learn more about God’s WORLD News and browse sample magazines, visit gwnews.com (https://gwnews.com/).This episode is sponsored by Frameworks.For many families, full time Christian education is not feasible. Frameworks offers online Biblical Worldview courses for public high school students, partnering with well-known ministries to create courses on discipleship, creation science, worship, finances, and more!Explore Frameworks online, Biblical Worldview courses for high school students today at bibleclassesforpublicschools.com.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Concurrently, the news coach podcast from World Radio and God's
0:07.9	World News.
0:08.9	We're here to come alongside you as you disciple kids and students through cultural trends
0:14.0	and current events.
0:15.5	I'm Kelsey Reed.
0:17.0	I'm here with Jonathan Bose.
0:18.5	Hello.
0:19.5	Together we want to model conversation and apply tools you can use at home or in the classroom.
0:25.8	We'd love for you to send in your particular questions to address in future episodes.
0:30.6	But for today, we're laying a foundation and sourcing our material from news stories
0:35.2	we are reading and writing through our work at God's World News.
0:38.6	Today we want to talk about something that's always in and out of the headlines.
0:42.7	There's always some new study, some new report.
0:47.1	It's the subject of video games.
0:49.9	There's so many questions about video games and I feel like especially this last year,
0:54.5	the loneliness epidemic, a lack of motivation, a lack of friendship.
0:58.5	A lot of people point to those things happening in the lives, especially of young men, teenage
1:03.7	boys and draw video games into it.
1:07.1	They point to the presence of video games in the lives of these young men and want to
1:11.3	make video games the culprit.
1:12.7	That seems to be the trend of a lot of different headlines, articles we're seeing.
1:17.3	So how can we sort through this issue wisely instead of simply passively accepting what
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