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Feet pounding against the turf, sweat dripping down the brow, cheers echoing across the stadium, and the metallic racket of the overtime score buzzer are all a manifestation of the Sabbath—at their best, a way to foster community, challenge the physical body, and glorify God. In a sports culture dominated by multi-million dollar contracts and often plagued by steroid use, crass language, and a lack of integrity on and off the field, interpreting what we see and how we participate has become an important faith endeavor.
Sports Fanatics
How Christians have succumbed to the sports culture—and what might be done about it.
January 29, 2010
Why We Love Football
Grace and idolatry run crossing patterns in the new American pastime.
September 7, 2007
Sports with a Deeper Purpose
Wheaton College's new athletics director responds to The Atlantic's controversial indictment of college sports.
October 13, 2011
More on Sports
Doing an Inverted 180 on Colorado's Dead Forests
How Barry Clark saw opportunity for beauty and business in his destroyed landscape.
March 11, 2013
Christian Athletes Are Not Role Models
Ray Lewis and Colin Kaepernick are superb football players—that's all.
January 31, 2013
The Manti Te'o Hoax, from the Perspective of a Football Fanatic's Wife
After falling for it, I realized deception is nothing new.
January 17, 2013
Is Liberty's Football Bid an Evangelical Hail Mary Pass?
Falwell-founded school hopes its football team will boost evangelicals the way Notre Dame's helped Catholics.
December 26, 2012
Why Gabby Douglas Almost Quit Before the Olympics
The gold medalist talks to CT about her upbringing, her absent dad, and her plans for Rio 2016.
December 12, 2012
Living Like Lance: Everybody Dopes
The sins of the infamous bicyclist are more common than we imagine.
October 16, 2012
Lance Armstrong Has Lost Nearly Everything
And if he loses it all, it could be the best thing that ever happens to him.
October 12, 2012
The Surprising Truth about Mental Illness
Royce White is one of the NBA's hottest rookies. He also has crippling anxiety disorder. What we can learn from him about mental health.
October 12, 2012
NASCAR Driver Blake Koch Takes a Stand for Jesus
The Christian driver on running the race.
August 7, 2012
Gymnast Dominique Moceanu on Glory and Trial
The youngest member of 1996's "Magnificent Seven" Olympic team on her parents, her long-lost sister, and forgiveness.
August 2, 2012
Move Over, Michael Phelps. Missy Franklin Is Our New Sweetheart
How the 17-year-old gold medalist demonstrates a beautiful humility we all could harness.
July 31, 2012
Lost Boy Olympian Lopez Lomong Runs to Save Lives
How the runner uses his own success to help native South Sudan.
July 27, 2012
How Maya Moore Brings Style and Grace to the U.S. Olympic Women's Team
The basketball star hopes to add Olympic gold to the list of accomplishments.
July 26, 2012
Jeremy Lin vs. the Cynics
When an athlete's life matches his professions of faith, even skeptical sportswriters and embittered young evangelicals take notice.
July 12, 2012
Mastering the Golf Swing of Life
We tend to think of ethics as real serious business. It is not.
June 28, 2012
Ohio Stadium: The Buckeye State's Monument to the Glory of Football
A viewer-created film spotlights how sports unite us. But does that unity remain after we've left the stadium?
June 15, 2012
Jerry Sandusky Charity Transferring $2 Million to Christian Foster Care Agency
The Second Mile couldn't survive donor fallout from sex abuse scandal at Penn State football program.
June 14, 2012
Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, Josh Hamilton: Muscular Christianity's Newest Heroes
The new God squad.
March 22, 2012
Is Cage Fighting Ethical for Christians?
Observers weigh in on participating in or watching sports and violence.
January 25, 2012
Learning from Tim Tebow about Workplace Evangelism
Why we all could stand to do a bit more Tebowing around the office.
January 9, 2012
Success, Honor, and the Legacy of Joe Paterno
Why the world should never forget the football coach after the sex abuse scandal at Penn State.
November 16, 2011
Sports with a Deeper Purpose
Wheaton College's new athletics director responds to The Atlantic's controversial indictment of college sports.
October 13, 2011
Super Natural: Josh Hamilton's Comeback
The recovering crack addict and baseball superstar knows he's special, but it's a special that cuts two ways.
June 15, 2011
Q & A: Tim Tebow on Faith, Fame, & Football
The NFL athlete reflects on his outspoken faith, whether athletes should attribute their wins to God, and moving from the Focus on the Family ad to Jockey ads.
June 10, 2011
Do Christian Athletes Strike Out on Big-dollar Contracts?
Observers ask whether Albert Pujols' Christian testimony squares with his holding out for the largest contract in the history of baseball.
February 25, 2011
The Argument for Girl-Boy Wrestling
Joel Northrup cited his Christian faith for refusing to wrestle Cassy Herkelman in last week's Iowa state championship. I say his Christian faith should have taken him to the mat.
February 22, 2011
Michael Vick's Long Road to Recovery
A Christian animal-welfare activist reflects on the NFL quarterback and dogfighter's restoration.
February 16, 2011
Christians Launch Anti-Slavery Efforts for Super Bowl XLV
This year's game is located in one of the nation's seedbeds of human trafficking.
January 25, 2011
Constructing Peace
One Olympic athlete's efforts to build relationships between Sudan's Christians and Muslims.
January 5, 2011
Steve Johnson's Genie-in-a-Bottle God
The Buffalo Bills' wide receiver blamed the Lord via Twitter after he dropped the winning touchdown pass in a 19-16 loss to the Steelers.
December 1, 2010
Girls in Sports No Longer 'Tomboys'
There are also no longer any 'woman astronauts,' according to my 10-year-old daughter.
November 4, 2010
Q&A: Deanna Favre
The wife of NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks about her faith amid suffering.
October 21, 2010
Harnessing Haiti's Football Fever
How one ministry is using Haitians' passion for soccer to dispel post-earthquake stress.
July 6, 2010
'Act of faith' costs track team a win, trip to state championships
As he was crossing the finish line, Derrick Hayes pointed up to the sky (KHOU)
Opinion: Jackie Robinson—Faith in Himself, and in God
He said kneeling to pray is the best way to get closer to the Lord and to 'a hard-hit ground ball.' (Chris Lamb, The Wall Street Journal)
The Superbowl & Sex Trafficking: A Bad Problem that Does not Need a Bad Statistic
Sexual trafficking is real and widespread, but the Superbowl is not the center of the problem. (Ed Stetzer)
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