Religion, he feels, is the main source of his strength, and because he realizes not everybody shares that feeling today, he sometimes refers to “the challenge of being in the minority in the world.” … “I don’t try to be overbearing in what I believe, but, given a chance, I will express my beliefs.”
If I told you that line was in reference to a star athlete, I wouldn’t imagine you could guess whom. A number of sports stars, and journeymen, come to mind when I think of faith and basketball or baseball or football. And afflicted–minority syndrome is increasingly popular with Christians in America today.
But, surprisingly, I came across those lines last night in John McPhee’s “A Sense of Where You Are,” the profile he wrote more than 40 years ago of basketball great Bill Bradley, a white man of not-so-humble means who was educated at Princeton, the citadel of the American Presbytery. Hardly a typical minority.
This article was cross-posted atThe God Blog.
