sports

Tim Suttle investigates American football through the lens of empire.

Jon Hiskes writes on the athletic failings and musical triumphs of the Chicago Cubs.

In this essay, John B. White explores how (not) to exercise.

Rebecca Parker Payne writes about how crying in sports hints at something much bigger than weakness or sadness about losing.

Paul Arnold demonstrates that if there is any meaning to be found in sports, it is to be found because of the body, not in spite of it.

Not only should we as Christian parents refuse to prioritize our children’s interests above those of other children, but we should also view the playing field, the gym, the ice, the mat, and the court as the places where the values we claim to espouse on Sundays are lived out both by us and by our children.

Dear God, Could you please stop fixing sporting events? Your unpredictability is killing me at the betting table. I can never figure out who you’re helping. One moment you’re hooking up Steve Smith with the Panthers (well, you used to hook him up–he must have been a naughty boy this past year), and the next […]

The value of football is found not in fame and fortune, but rather in the potential it provides for cultivating moral and athletic excellence.

In this photo exhibit, Scott Strazzante juxtaposes images from a cattle-ranching family and a family living in a subdevelopment several years later on the same land to reveal the differences, complexities, and similarities between farm life and suburbia life.