Football, Fame, and Fortune
The value of football is found not in fame and fortune, but rather in the potential it provides for cultivating moral and athletic excellence.
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The stories we tell about ourselves and our faith are important, says Chelle Stearns, and in this essay she looks at how our athletic culture informs those stories. Taking her cue from J. R. R....
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During the 2014 season, college football drew over 49 million fans to stadiums across the country. That same year, the NFL hosted well over 34 million fans, a number that does not account for the...
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It has become almost banal to compare sports mania with religious cults, and indeed, the key features of worship, iconography, and religious cultural immersion are manifest in our commitment to our...
View ArticleWe’re Number One: Sport as the Liturgy of Empire
Last year I returned to my alma mater, Kansas State University, for a football game. Manhattan, Kansas, floats on a sea of prairie grass at the junction of the Big Blue and Kansas Rivers, a good ten...
View ArticleFootball, Fame, and Fortune
Could you name the five most recent winners of the Tour de France? How about the last winner of the Hawaii Ironman triathlon or the Boston Marathon? Or who has won the most FIFA World Cup tournaments...
View ArticleFootball, Fame, and Fortune
Could you name the five most recent winners of the Tour de France? How about the last winner of the Hawaii Ironman triathlon or the Boston Marathon? Or who has won the most FIFA World Cup tournaments...
View ArticleHobbits, Heroes, and Football
Every September brings with it the anticipation of fall colors, new beginnings and, yes, the National Football League. A few years ago, I celebrated the start of the academic year by attending a...
View ArticleThe Redemptive and Demonic in Big-Time Sports: An Interview with Marcia W....
During the 2014 season, college football drew over 49 million fans to stadiums across the country. That same year, the NFL hosted well over 34 million fans, a number that does not account for the...
View ArticleThe Two Deaths of Joe Paterno: Stringfellow on the Principality of Image and...
It has become almost banal to compare sports mania with religious cults, and indeed, the key features of worship, iconography, and religious cultural immersion are manifest in our commitment to our...
View ArticleWe’re Number One: Sport as the Liturgy of Empire
Last year I returned to my alma mater, Kansas State University, for a football game. Manhattan, Kansas, floats on a sea of prairie grass at the junction of the Big Blue and Kansas Rivers, a good ten...
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