Gregory Grieve is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He studies digital religion, including how religious practices and beliefs are represented in video games.

A writer and games designer. His games, including Shabbat-Put! and Sacrifice Play have been staged in the U.S. and U.K., and earlier this year he staged a fully-gamed church service at Union Theological Seminary. His largest project to date is a belief agnostic, fully-gamed new religion, Ten Year Game, which started in fall 2011.

Read the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in regards to Nintendo’s lawsuit of Atari over the technology they used to avoid Nintendo’s licensing process. The Court ruled in favor of Nintendo granting them a say in what games could play on their technology. This set a precedent for years to come, the video […]

A May 10, 2010 Gamasutra article by Christian pop culture writer Richard Clark. He argues that video games can’t, and shouldn’t avoid dealing with the subject of religion. It is a response to Kotuku’s “Religion In Games: Less A Leap Of Faith, More A Suspension Of Belief” piece from 2010.

An April 5, 2010 first-person piece that explores the religion in video games for Kotuku-Australia. The author argues that video games and religion will always be in tension because video games place a high value on entertainment.

A July 2, 2012 article in IGN which investigates the claim that the video game Asura’s Wrath is offensive to Hindus.

Kevin Schut is a professor of media and communication at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. He studies the intersection of religion, culture and technology, with an emphasis on video games. In 2013, Schut published Of Games and God: A Christian Exploration of Video Games.

The Center on Religion & the Professions works to educate journalism students and professionals on religious issues. It is based at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education brings journalism students from across the country to report and create multimedia projects for major media outlets.