Ember Restored: How a Christian and an Atheist Bonded over Dark Souls

Matthew Jordan Amos
8 min readOct 5, 2020
Photo by nicolas perez on Unsplash

A few weeks before Christmas my mother asks me a familiar question:

“What game do you want?”

I’m 31 years-old, and we’ve done this from Donkey Kong Country to Phantom Pain. This year I go with Dark Souls 3.

The idea is to play it with my little brother. We’ll both be in town at our parents’ in…

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