sports
COMMENTARY: How to Be a Father They’ll Fondly Remember
By Tom Ehrich — June 15, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) On the last hole, I sailed my tee shot into the lake. So did my 24-year-old son. So did my 13-year-old son. Like father, like son. After dropping off my clubs, I walked toward my son’s truck and saw two brothers sitting on the tailgate, chatting happily, leaning toward […]
COMMENTARY: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
By Tom Ehrich — April 27, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Enough of politicians, preachers and their seductive tango of moralistic rage. It’s time to watch our Triple-A Durham Bulls usher in the promise of summer. Long lines at ticket windows suggest that my son and I aren’t alone in savoring the familiar thwack of bat hitting baseball and fielders […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic Nun Begins Sentence Related to Protest, Says It’s `Jesus Way’
By RNS Blog Editor — March 16, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Before going behind bars Tuesday (March 15), Sister Lelia “Lil” Mattingly said she expected jail would be cold and dreary compared to life in a convent. But the nun sentenced in connection with a protest in Georgia said her imprisonment follows Jesus’ way, “to speak the truth to power […]
In World Series Win, Some Players and Fans See the Hand of a Higher Power
By RNS Blog Editor — October 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Ecstatic with their first World Series championship in 86 years, fans of the never-say-die Boston Red Sox are preparing to enshrine this team’s players as bigger-than-life legends who overcame the infamous Curse of the Bambino. But as the Fenway faithful gear up to pay them homage, the heroes of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Former Football Saint Takes Hit, Bounces Back With Higher Power
By Bruce Nolan — August 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Danny Abramowicz never does things halfway. As an undersized but furiously competitive end on the football team at Xavier University in Ohio in the mid-1960s, he “worked out like a maniac.” Doing isometric exercises at his mother-in-law’s house one day, he accidentally ripped out several feet of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 11, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Survey: Blacks Practice Religion More Than Other Groups (RNS) Black Americans are the most likely to participate in religious activities like prayer, Bible reading and worship attendance, compared to other racial and ethnic groups, a survey shows. The Barna Group, a Ventura, Calif.-based consulting firm, found that 91 percent of […]
COMMENTARY: Doing What’s Normal
By Tom Ehrich — July 14, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C. Visit his Web site at http://www.onajourney.org.) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ The University of North Carolina’s aquatic center is hot and sticky when we arrive at 7 a.m. Add piercing noise […]
COMMENTARY: Jim Brown and My Dad
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.) (UNDATED) When I was little, my favorite football […]
COMMENTARY: Beyond the Rules
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) Expressions of love flew across telephone lines and the Internet, not to mention old-fashioned hugs and child-made cards. In our household, two sons conspired on a surprise dinner for […]
COMMENTARY: Here’s My Plan
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) I am waiting my turn for a haircut. The Twins are pasting the Yankees. All is well. Over crowd fervor on his television, the barber asks a 10-year-old customer, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Couple Seeks to Teach Parents to Control Sports Rage
By Shelvia Dancy — July 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The news shocked the nation: an irate father beat another father to death in front of the man’s children during an argument at a youth hockey game near Boston. But for coach and former professional athlete Jim Sundberg, the story of parental rage sparked by youth sports was not […]
NEWS STORY: `Modern Magi’ Nearing End of Journey to the Holy Land
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank _ They camped in Bedouin tents in the lush green fields along Iraq’s Euphrates River, rode on camelback across deserts in Syria, trod in winter rain and hailstorms, and sang Christmas hymns under the stars with Arab Christians along the Jordan River. But when the group […]
NEWS STORY: `Modern Magi’ Nearing End of Journey to the Holy Land
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank _ They camped in Bedouin tents in the lush green fields along Iraq’s Euphrates River, rode on camelback across deserts in Syria, trod in winter rain and hailstorms, and sang Christmas hymns under the stars with Arab Christians along the Jordan River. But when the group […]
NEWS FEATURE: NFL’s Felonious Off-Season Renews Debate Over Role Modeling for Kids
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mark Chmura wasn’t just a Green Bay Packers tight end, outspoken critic of Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct and United Way example of what’s supposed to be good and noble and true about the National Football League. Chmura was a child’s hero, riding 11-year-old Paul Krumberger’s bicycle between the Lambeau […]
COMMENTARY: Guns and the Moms of May
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) DURHAM, N.C. _ Our son’s baseball diamond is two blocks from the home where a community leader was recently gunned down by two youth looking to kill her sons. Halfway […]
