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Paul Putz is director of the Faith & Sports Institute at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary and author of The Spirit of the Game: American Christianity and Big-Time Sports.
With his refusal to race on Sunday, the Scottish sprinter showcased a bigger story about Christians in sports.
How the famed executive who signed Jackie Robinson found renewed hope in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Using sports to market Christ has a long history, but Sunday’s iteration might skip the muscles for heart.
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How the famed executive who signed Jackie Robinson found renewed hope in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Review
American stadiums have always played host both to major sports and to larger social aspirations.
The Dallas Mavericks were intended to be the first Christian team in the NBA.
Using sports to market Christ has a long history, but Sunday’s iteration might skip the muscles for heart.
The faith intertwined with American football may also call us to care better for the players whose bodies bear the brunt of the sport.
The moral authority of high school coaches raises First Amendment questions the Supreme Court will have to consider in “Kennedy v. Bremerton.”
Over 75 years of the professional league—and for decades before—Black Christians brought a social conscience to basketball.
The team behind this year’s most impressive March Madness upset carries on Oral Roberts’s legacy of embracing sports as Christian witness.
Though sports ministries long espoused a “colorblind” approach to race, believers in pro sports are leading the calls for racial justice.
Review
A reporter’s inside look at the team’s Christian culture repeats some characteristic flaws of evangelical writing on sports.