sports
NEWS FEATURE: Some pro players depend on faith on the road, at home
By Ed White — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ATLANTA _ Keith Lockhart was on a cell phone aboard a plane, listening closely as his wife, Lisa, gave him a play-by-play of his son’s baseball game.”I listened until we got too far away from the signal,”said Lockhart wistfully.”That’s when it’s really tough being in this business.””This business”is professional baseball. […]
COMMENTARY: The high price of entertainment
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 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.) UNDATED _ A clever series of commercials currently airing on the FOX television network depicts football fanatics spending quality time with […]
COMMENTARY: Why do alumni care now?
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 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. _ In this hotbed of college basketball, performances on the gridiron don’t stir much heat. But business is business. After lackluster football seasons at North Carolina and N.C. […]
COMMENTARY: A Meditation for World Series Time
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph,”published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ We learn a great deal about this nation as we look down on it from airplane windows. […]
COMMENTARY: Bring on the instant replay
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ It hasn’t been the best spring. Natural disasters have hit unnaturally hard. We’re ambivalent about being involved in a war and confused about who is winning. We are afraid we don’t know what’s going on with our teen-agers and we’re pretty […]
NEWS FEATURE: Black youth minister at white church finds different kind of bias
By Ed White — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW MARKET, Ala. _ The Rev. Conley Bush is no stranger to racial prejudice. He says he even felt it in his own family while growing up in Moulton, Ala. But the prejudice Bush experienced was atypical from most racial bias directed against blacks _ it was blacks who gave […]
NEWS STORY: O’Connor tackles Little League, youth soccer
By Bart Worden — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Less than a month after taking Major League Baseball to task for holding games on Good Friday, Roman Catholic Cardinal John J. O’Connor has taken on a larger dragon to slay _ Little League Baseball and youth soccer leagues that play on Sundays. Writing in the Thursday […]
NEWS FEATURE: Women finding strength at their own faith rallies
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HARTFORD, Conn. _ For the wives of Promise Keepers, it’s payback time. It’s their chance to leave the kids with their fathers so they can head out to their own evangelistic rallies. But unlike the men, the women are not making any promises. They are coming together for mutual support.”The […]
COMMENTARY: Mentoring makes a difference in young lives
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rodolpho Carrasco is associate director of Harambee Christian Family Center in Pasadena, Calif., a faith-based youth program. E-mail him at genxlatino(AT)aol.com.) UNDATED _ When graduating from Stanford University a few years back, I sadly remembered my older brother. Sandor wasn’t there to share my joy because he had died of […]
COMMENTARY: It’s time to rethink our attitudes about winning
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) UNDATED _ The U.S. soccer team’s quiet fade from the World Cup troubled many Americans. “What’s wrong with the U.S.?”asked Yahoo, a leading Web site. Fire the coach. Blame the players. Blame American kids for preferring basketball […]
COMMENTARY: Feeling disenchanted with (major league) sports
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is the author of”On a Journey,”daily meditations available through Journey Publishing Co. If you have feedback or want to suggest a question for a future column, send e-mail to: journey(AT)interpath.com) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. _ In the war of political yard signs, green signs saying”Major League Baseball YES,”are defeating red […]
NEWS STORY: Muslim group, Nike reach accord on disputed logo
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News service WASHINGTON _ The Nike sportswear company and an Islamic advocacy group have reached a settlement after several months of discussion over a controversial shoe logo some Muslims find offensive because it resembles the Arabic word for God. Nike has apologized for the offense and has stopped using the logo on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Sunday dilemma for soccer families: play or pray
By Bart Worden — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Earlier this year, a Methodist pastor in Wauwatosa, Wis., noticed his congregation was shrinking: The choir director had to cancel performances because there weren’t enough voices and Sunday school teachers saw drops in attendance. The Rev. John Sumwalt didn’t have to look hard to find the culprit _ […]
COMMENTARY: The bewildering ethics of compensation
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(AT)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ I wanted to write about the corporate executive who earned more than $200 million last year, but then my car burned to a crisp. I had just […]
COMMENTARY: Tiger Woods phenomenon raises question: is greatness needed for acceptance?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(AT)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ Tiger Woods _ now there’s a name made for greatness. He should have been a boxer. But when the 21-year-old Woods strode to the pinnacle, it was […]
