Story Behind
College Sports: Prodigal Son of "Muscular Christianity"
In the wake of a basketball scandal at a prominent Christian university, we take time to remember the Christian roots of college athletics.
Chris Armstrong | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
Big Church Revival
Christian gyms and shopping malls may be new, but full-service megachurches are positively medieval.
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
The Cremation Question
Firm belief in resurrection hasn't kept Christians from caring—and arguing—about what happens to the bodies of the dead.
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
Citius, Altius, Sanctus
The modern Olympics, though hardly Christian, hail from an era when athleticism was next to godliness.
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
Christian Education for All
Before Sunday school became the instructional hour for believers' children, it was an edgy, faith-based social-service movement in the slums of eighteenth-century England. And the public loved it.
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
The Sport of Saints?
Long before March Madness, basketball was invented by a man who sought "To win men for the Master through the gym."
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
Olympia Revisited
Tracing Christian roots in the Olympics.
Elesha Coffman | posted 8/08/2008 12:33PM
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