Dirk Nowitzki and a Cure for Rootlessness
Dirk Nowitzki’s decision to stay in one place is a model for us all.
Don’t Ruin Your Witness over the Blown Saints Call
[God] desires for us to be holy when we compete, when we coach, and when we are entertained, because there is life in holiness.
Our Quest for a King: LeBron James’s Example of Fatherhood
For LeBron James, being a dad is everything. He is devoted to his children, making fatherhood one of the coolest things he’s ever done.
Beyond the Field: The Social Good of Women’s Sports
With the appropriate ideological shift, Americans could expand their pallets to appreciate slower games.
The World Cup Offers Americans a Lesson in Virtue
America’s absence from this year’s World Cup prompts us to look beyond ourselves.
What the NFL (and the Church) Can Learn from the NBA
Like many with power, the NFL owners are using their wealth and status to steamroll those in a weaker position.
Nothing to Prove: What We Can Learn from an Olympic Athlete’s Response to Failure
The desperation to prove oneself and the inability to own mistakes are common among Mirai Nagasu’s much-discussed (and often maligned) Millennial peers.
Jim Carrey, Worked Shoots, and Making Sense of Our Scripted Reality
Like Jim Carrey does in ‘Jim & Andy,’ we are scripting the reality given to us for a watching world. While perhaps this is unavoidable, we can aim to steward our task well and aim to be as authentic as is reasonable.
I, Ashley: We’re Still Imposing the Harding-Kerrigan Narrative on Young Female Skaters
We can at least try to break our destructive judgments of public figures by remembering they are real human beings with feelings, minds, and agency of their own, and by leaving them a little room to surprise us.
Signing Kaepernick: Self-Atonement Marketing or Justice?
There is a reason why many people are reluctant to forgive, let alone support, individuals and businesses that market their self-atonement.
What Lamar Odom Can Teach Hugh Freeze
Just as Lamar Odom could confess in his interview that he wanted to get high, Coach Freeze too can be honest about the current state of his heart.
A Question I Hope Ronda Rousey Is Asking Right Now
Ronda Rousey lost again, but that doesn’t make her worthless.
The Kingdom Is Like a T-Ball Game
T-ball, in many ways, is the portal into proverbial joy or into a life of overbearing demand.
When Grown Men Cry: Why Is the Cubs Winning the Pennant So Important?
Baseball is part of our collective human longing for meaning and transcendence.
The Sojourner on the Pitcher’s Mound: Remembering José Fernandez
Fernandez ’s talent made him a star—but what made him truly special was his role as a bridge between Cuban-Americans and the world around them.
Unity and Diversity in the Olympic Pool
Swimmer Lilly King claims to be the good American Olympian in the face of the Russian doping scandal, but the truth of the matter is more complicated.
