Collin Hansen and Paul Putz discuss the historical and contemporary intersection of American Christianity and big-time sports.
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At The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, we talk a lot about front porches. It’s the (metaphorical, but sometimes literal) place where you can sit down with someone and talk as friends, even if you disagree. It’s a place to explore new ideas and seek to persuade. As Christians, we use front porches to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The best front porch I know today, at least in the United States, is sports. I don’t have many venues for small talk with my neighbors, let alone a context where we could spend enough time together to explore bigger ideas together. Sports is that front porch for me. How much more so for the athletes themselves, all the way up to the professional level.
