Brandy Bagar-Fraley teaches graduate and undergraduate writing and serves as full-time faculty and Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Franklin University in Columbus, OH. She received her Ph.D. in English from Ohio University in 2010 and her writing has appeared previously in publications including Christianity Today, Relevant, and Slate.

The Endless Now: Sacrificing the Comfort of Stasis in Xenoblade Chronicles III

In telling a story about surrender and suffering in the service of hope, Xenoblade Chronicles III invites its players into the practice of sacrifice.

Shin Megami Tensei V’s Theology of Absence

Shin Megami Tensei V reveals, with unsentimental efficiency, that righteousness stripped of love spares no thought for forgiveness and compassion.