The Rabbit Room

This is a lovely answer, and I think I would expand on it. Grief is, in some sense, the inverse of delight. I think of Jesus enduring the cross for the joy set before him (also, that line in WandaVision: “What is grief but love persevering?”) For some time, I’ve been working on a chapbook -length poetry collection that deals with infertility and fertility treatments. There’s a real sense in which the grief that has informed those poems is a burgeoning, raw, difficult delight: delight in the hope of creation, in marital love, in children (even the potential of them). I suggest that often, our grief reveals and even grows our delight through those bitter seasons you described.
 

I love this so much! As a DM to a little local group of six, thanks for this, Rebecca. What a lovely encouragement. 

One of my favorite posts on this site in quite some time. Love the angle and the imagination here. Wonderful!

I love this! I have been telling my friends (the ones not already playing) how everyone should play DnD at least once. I liked your attention to the Dungeon Master’s role and how it has to constantly move with what is given. I personally think every small group leader could benefit from being a dungeon master at least once in their life (a small group seems to function with a lot of the same principles/goals as a campaign). So glad to see a piece about this form of storytelling with friends! Thank you, reading this made my day!

Thank you for your refreshing and insightful perspective. I’ve been a  talmid of Yeshua for 51 years and a gamer for 45 and have heard it all–from Satanic Panic condemnation to Player Partisan zealotry. As a follower of the Way, I have defended my interest to both Christian and non-Christian alike. So much of what you say resonates with me. I have always felt gaming to be a legitimate and genuine artistic expression, one I have shared with a special group of friends for most of my life. The act of communal creation at our table, the genuine camaraderie; the joy and laughter; the tears and sympathy; the ongoing discussions of morality, ethics, and the nature of good and evil–some of which would rival any theologic debate or university colloquia–that might not have otherwise happened are pure treasure. I especially appreciate your observations on the importance of context and how gaming is an echo the tale-telling of old. As an art, I am fascinated by gaming’s unique social contract and its unspoken agreement to cooperatively create a communal narrative. Indeed, the creation of liminal space through which the artist generously and with vulnerability invites the audience to move from observer to direct creative participant is singular. I cannot resist observing how that paradigm seems to faintly (albeit very imperfectly) echo the amazing Garden paradigm and intended partnership extended by Adonai to His imagers in the evolvement of His “good” world. I apologize for going on so, but your perspective on this subject is rare and thought provoking. Once again, thank you.

One of my favorite Hutchmoot memories ever is hiding in a church classroom with the Hittles and Lisa and Jonny and Rich and playing D&D for the first/only time. (Narnia themed. I was a mouse bard.)This is delightful and waking up a longing to play again. Thanks Rebecca.

Thank you for all your hard work and creativity, Drew! I hope whatever your next adventure is will be fulfilling and fruitful. But I also hope that you will not disappear entirely, because you have made the Rabbit Room a much richer place with your involvement.

Drew Miller, you’re a gifted editor, producer, songwriter, and musician.  I’m grateful for all you’ve done, caring for our dearly beloved rabbity folk. May the Lord bless you and may he keep you, may the Lord make his face shine upon you, and may the Lord give you his perfect peace.

Thanks for all your work here, Drew. I’ll miss your RR contributions (though maybe there will be surprises?), but am confident that whatever comes next will be great 🙂

Thanks for sharing your travels along the Camino, appreciate hearing stories like this. I once spent part of a year in Spain, in Burgos, involved in a discipleship program and short term mission.

Ooh, I want more updates.  Thank you for sharing.

I can’t tell you how happy I am that you guys made a theater arm!!! You guys just get better and better! <3 

How great! I was so incredibly happy to read these news!
Sometimes I missed theatre among all these other art forms in talkings in the Rabbit Room. But suddenly the rabbit scampers around the corner and jumps straight into the spotlight… Wonderful!

Tickets are emailed at the time of purchase. You can request they be resent via the ticketing site, or email boxoffice@rabbitroom.com.

There are currently no plans for a tour.

Marmite is delicious, and you’re a food snob, Pete Peterson. 

Rev Counta & The Speedoze – Marmite Sandwiches – YouTube
Here’s all you need too know about Marmite…

“It is exceedingly hard to make good art. With very limited tools…” I’m certain you specifically meant the banjo. Thanks for this excellent combination of words. 

This was an encouragement for me today.

So good. Thank you for the encouragement.

I’m so sorry. Praying that closing prayer with you all.

Fr. Thomas played an important role in my spiritual journey. I never personally knew him, but I’m thankful that God gave him to us for a while. Memory eternal.

Goodness, Pete, what a powerful remembrance. I’m praying for you and all who loved him. Thank you for sharing your love for him with us.

My heart aches for this deep loss for all who loved him. Praying for peace and comfort and that God will surround you all with His grace in unmistakable and tangible ways. Yearning for heaven when death and loss will be no more.
 

this is so very sad. I was very blessed to attend one of Father McKenzie’s church services while I attended Hutchmoot one year and I loved watching his commentaries on movies and listing to his talks. One of my very first things I listened to on the Hutchmoot talks was one by Father McKenzie! It was on the resurrection and it opened my eyes that we will be as Christ is in the Resurrected body. 
He will be missed, but praise God that this is only for a short reprieve, for we will see him again. 

Thanks so much for posting this now, Pete

Brilliant. Thank you, Pete. “He kept the Keepers and we kept the Earth.”

Lovely. Thank you.

Thank you for this lovely tale. What a joy to read this tribute to a wonderful writer and get a glimpse of some of my favourite characters again. He will be missed, but his voice will still be heard in the legacy of words he left behind.