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Hockey Priest: Giving Greater Thought to Sporting Involvement

Editor's note: Images Courtesy of St. Michael's College School “Why speak of muscular Christianity?” asked an academic to a presenting colleague at a sports history conference I recently attended. The questioner made it clear that, in his opinion, sport historians have no need for religion in their field of study. The statement sounded sensible, as…
October 28, 2025
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Samford University’s Josh Reeves Appointed Associate Co-Editor for Theology

The editors, associate editors, and institutional representatives who serve Christian Scholar’s Review are pleased to appoint Josh Reeves as the next Associate Co-Editor for Theology.  Reeves currently serves as the Director of Samford University’s Center for Science and Religion and joins Karin Stetina (Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Biola University), who serves as…
October 23, 2025
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The True Race Part III: Eternal Love and Sport

In yesterday’s post, I pointed out how Dante’s Paradise helps one see the primacy of love. The arete of love is eternal, while all of the records, championships, trophies and praise in sport will pass away. In this final post, I will address the implications that the eternal love of God, to which Dante points…
October 22, 2025

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A Typology of Christian Discipleship Methods, Part 2

What are the disciple-making options for churches, schools, and others committed to facilitating the spiritual growth process? Part 1 of this series offered five methods from throughout church history. Here in Part 2, I share four more historical methods, followed by a suggestion for integrating these time-honored approaches into a comprehensive discipleship model that is…
January 6, 2023
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A Typology of Christian Discipleship Methods, Part 1

Followers of Jesus are to be leaders in disciple-making. At home, at work, in school, in church, anywhere really, it is nothing less than what the scriptures invite us to do with our lives: Be disciples and make disciples. In fact, the word μαθητής (mathetes) appears more than 250 times in the New Testament, meaning…
January 5, 2023
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Warm and Fuzzy and Strange

This December, in her Language Arts class, my fifth grader is retelling the Christmas story. And she can’t just write any old, kid-style paraphrase. Instead, my daughter’s story has to be from the vantage of a minor, or even invisible, character. What, my daughter must consider, did the Nativity look like to the overlooked? Well,…
December 19, 2022
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Attention and Adoration: An Advent Reflection

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. -Simon Weil We have an attention problem. It’s easy to blame modern media technologies. Many have done so, and I regularly join their lament. The field of media ecology is ripe with insights about technology’s effects on our ability to purposefully attend to…
December 16, 2022
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Joy (not Happiness) to the World

Tis the season for joy. In our best-loved Christmas hymns, the angels announce the birth of Jesus with glad tidings of great joy. In reply and echoing their joyous strains, we sing lustily and with good courage that God has sent joy to the world. Even the fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains cannot…
December 15, 2022
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The Importance of Eye Contact

I once heard a preacher deliver a sermon on Jesus’ encounter, in Mark 10, with “the rich young ruler.” I have heard many sermons on that story, but never before any like this one. The preacher chose to focus on verse 21, where it says that Jesus looked at the young man. Much of the…
December 14, 2022
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Share the Story of Chanukah With Your Students This Christmas

"Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the Temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade" – John 10:22-23 Beginning with their enslavement in Egypt, when Pharaoh ordered Hebrew midwives to murder all newborn Jewish males, throughout Israel's exile and captivity under the Babylonians and the Assyrians, to this…
December 13, 2022
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Students as Image Bearers of God: Preparing for the First Day of Class

“Recognition is the first human quest.” Andy Crouch begins his latest book with this statement and then expands on our desires to be recognized as persons—individuals who have a place in this world. In The Life We’re Looking for: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, Crouch suggests that technology has not succeeded in promoting true…
December 12, 2022