Rebecca Parker Payne

There’s Always Crying in Sports

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

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Paul Arnold

Finding Our Feel for the Game

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.

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Jennifer Stewart Fueston

A Swim

In this poem, Jennifer Stewart Fueston captures some of those thoughts that arise in the meditative underwater silence.

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Justin R. Phillips

The Work of Play

Baseball was my first exposure to liturgy, my first immersion in the timekeeping of heaven.

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Joel Looper

Will Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America

Not unlike the admonitions of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religious leaders’ calls to welcome the disenfranchised stranger often fall on deaf ears in their congregations. I can’t help but wonder what’s going on here. What has brought the American church to this place? Why are so many Christians going against their religious authorities on this particular issue?

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