The Rev. Marcia Mount Shoop, PhD, is a theologian, minister, and author. Her books include Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (2010), Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports (2014), and A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed: Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches (coauthored with Mary McClintock Fulkerson; 2015). She blogs at www.marciamountshoop.com and hosts a podcast called Going Deep: Sports in the Twenty-First Century with her husband, coach John Shoop.
In this interview with The Other Journal, Marcia Mount Shoop explores the realities of race, gender, and capitalism as they relate to big-time sports today.
