September 2011

Scenario 3

You are a group of friends gathered at a dinner table.  A young black man comes rushing through your door. He yells: “they have my mother and father!” He explains that they have been arrested, accused of providing free health care to an immigrant group of youth. In a world without churches, how do you […]

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Scenario 2

You are a part of a family, your sister Joanne and her partner have adopted a baby. They have decided to name the new baby after their good friend Rachel. Joanne reaches out to you, her family, and asks for your assistance on how everyone could welcome the new baby into the family. How do

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Scenario 1

You and your team work at Google, you are waiting for Rachel to arrive for the 9AM daily meeting. At 9: 30AM you are informed that Rachel died over the weekend. It is an unexpected death. In a world without churches how do you and your colleagues respond in a shared public way? There is

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Some initial rules…

We would like you to help us test some very preliminary game ideas for a World without Churches by engaging in an offline test version. We invite you to play the game Remnants: world without church. So what is it? Here is the theme of the game: The year is 2045. The institutional church no

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Remnants storyline

First draft by Ken Evers Hood: The year is 2045. The institutional church crumbling in North America in 2015 is little more than a memory today. After years of denying science, resisting changing attitudes towards the role of women and sexual minorities, leadership incompetence and clergy sex abuse the church moved from being viewed as

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