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Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
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Why do sports matter so much to so many people? And why should we care? Far from being a distraction or a trivial pastime, sports tell us deep truths about ourselves. Big-time sports are a particularly potent mirror for humanity--reflecting both our promising possibilities and our demonic distortions. Theologian (and football coach's wife) Marcia Mount Shoop invites you to take a closer look at the hold that sports have on us.
Touchdowns for Jesus takes you beneath the veil in some of the most challenging issues in sports today: fanaticism, sexism, racism, and abuse of power. And beneath the lifted veil you also encounter wisdom about how we can find our way back to what is most life-giving about sports. If you love sports, or if you just wonder why others do, Touchdowns for Jesus will give you a whole new way to view the games people play.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCascade Books
Release dateJul 1, 2014
ISBN9781630873530
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
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Marcia W. Mount Shoop

The Rev. Marcia W. Mount Shoop, PhD, is the author of Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (2010) and a blogger on faith, family, and football at www.marciamountshoop.com. She and her husband, Coach John Shoop, have been in the world of big-time sports for over twenty years. See Touchdowns for Jesus in the news: First Things Radio interview "The Game," Chicago Englewood Review of Books The Christian Century The News and Observer, on UNC scandal The Thoughtful Christian, on Intimate Partner Violence

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