Novak Djokovic, Extraordinary Tennis Player, Ordinary Orthodox Anti-Vaxxer
The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…
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How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride
Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference,…
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When Muhammad Ali Met Billy Graham
How far we’ve come.
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Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide
A Nigerian-born Catholic has crashed the American wedding of faith and football by refusing to…
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Perhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali
After Barack Obama pointed out in a televised address on the San Bernardino shootings that…
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The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?
After leading his team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback…
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“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace
In “Federer, Both Flesh and Not,” his essay about the 2006 Wimbledon Men’s final, David…
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Are Muslims as Dangerous as Nazis, as ESPN’s Curt Schilling Tweeted?
Earlier this week, ESPN commentator and world religions expert Curt Schilling got suspended for a…
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Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t
The faith of Jason Collins, who recently came out as the first gay athlete in a major American sport, doesn’t fit the model of culture war conflicts the media expects and the religious right demands of its spokespeople.
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Who does an interfaith NFL-spiritual-but-not-religious family root for? It’s complicated.
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