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    Featured: "The truth about violence in video games" from Rethink Church
    Checkpoint Church
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    Featured: "The truth about violence in video games" from Rethink Church

    Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. In this post, he discusses the role of violence in video games and how award winning games like It Takes Two are changing that paradigm. Read the full article below or visit the main site here.
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    And Then There Were None
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    And Then There Were None

    Well, this is it - our final To The Point newsletter of 2021. I want to first thank you - whether this is your first, your thirtieth, your fifty-first, or somewhere in between, I want to thank you for reading these words as often as you have to take a peek into the goings-on of Checkpoint Church. As I consider what To The Point (and CPC in general) look like in 2022, I keep coming back to the troublesome image of the ouroboros - the serpent eating it's own tail. If you're unf
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    Nerdy Devotional Season 2 Finale
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 26, 2021
    • 0 min

    Nerdy Devotional Season 2 Finale

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    The Nerd At Christmas
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Nerd At Christmas

    It seems that the season of Christmas isn't dissimilar from a Pokémon. It evolves. Since my childhood, I've always known the 'true reason for the season.' I've never had too much trouble differentiating between the consumer delights versus the longest nights. However, the more I think back on the old days of Christmas as a nerdy kid the more I realize that - to be honest - nerds understand the true meaning of Christmas pretty quickly. One of the biggest threats I find myself
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    How Hawkeye (Disney +) is Exploring Repressed Trauma
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    How Hawkeye (Disney +) is Exploring Repressed Trauma

    If you’re plugged into our community on Twitch or Discord, you know my thoughts on Hawkeye are less than great. So I’m going to take all of my hot takes and put them away. If you want to know how I really feel - keep watching till the very end. But for this video we are going to look at the story being told in the latest Disney+ Avengers series Hawkeye, where we explore the relationship between Barton and Bishop for the first time in this universe. Clint has to tackle a prett
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    A Game Dev's Reflection
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Game Dev's Reflection

    Wow, that title is wild to see. As I write this, I've just finished playing the final complete collection of our first ever video game Not Another Advent Story. When I first posted the concept in the Discord, I was anxious that no one would take the bait and join me in the journey. Fortunately, I was dead wrong. It's been a pleasure to work with a team of seven awesome people to develop this game. The fact that we started with an idea and ended with a fully functioning Twine
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    The True Evil in League of Legend's ARCANE Series
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 9 min

    The True Evil in League of Legend's ARCANE Series

    It’s not mystery than I’m not the biggest fan of League of Legends and given articles like this - I’m not alone in that sentiment. But the virality of Riot Games first serialized television series Arcane does ask some important questions - why are we so drawn to this show? Probably the thing that draws most people to League in the first place - the characters. And the characters in this show pretty much unilaterally have the exact same issue in common. Why do we do evil thing
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    Bestivus for the Rest of Us
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bestivus for the Rest of Us

    Planting a church like Checkpoint is a fairly inexplicable thing. I can't begin to describe the surprises that have been waiting on me around every corner. Like all church plants (and churches), God has worked in mysterious ways. But when your church is designed with nerds, geeks, and gamers in mind - it's downright bizarre. The very first surprise came within our first month of streaming. I had served in a local rural parish for four years before beginning the planting proce
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    The Zen of Unpacking & How It Gives Us Hope
    Checkpoint Church
    • Dec 5, 2021
    • 9 min

    The Zen of Unpacking & How It Gives Us Hope

    When was the last time you moved homes? Packed all of your things up and took them to a totally new place and then started unpacking. You unpacked memories, keepsakes, heartbreaks. And odds are, you finished unpacking and said, “I never want to do that again.” But the zen-game Unpacking made me retract that statement - what can we learn from Unpacking the life of someone else? Can taking things out of boxes one at a time help us to learn more about ourselves in the process? A
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    Tragedy Beyond Four Walls
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tragedy Beyond Four Walls

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This video mentions a tragedy in Ohio, but the event in fact occurred in Michigan. Adjustments and edits have been made as possible. Apologies for any affected by this error. The past few weeks have brought a haunting reality to the forefront of my mind. With the advent of the Internet, the world became a good bit smaller by the pure virtue of connectivity. When tragedy strikes a country across the globe, it hits the airwaves within the hour - a far cry from th
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