Tag: race and sports

The Church should take a knee… again

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At a recent campaign rally in Alabama, the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, called African American football players who kneeled during the national anthem “sons of b—.”  Who he was endorsing and for what position is irrelevant now.  His candidate lost but a kind of radical patriotism has gained newfound momentum and energy.  Political pundits […]

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Mike Frost spins “A tale of two Christianities on its knees”

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This week, I served at a conference for ministry leaders and their families in the mountains of North Carolina.  During one of the nightly sermons that was going really well, the preacher decided to use a sports analogy to make a theological point.  He began with the Dallas Cowboys and turned the sacred space into a man cave.  […]

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Robert Griffin III and Authentic Blackness

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“Is he a brother or a cornball brother?” asked ESPN’s Rob Parker.  He was questioning the so- called blackness of the Washington Pigskins quarterback, Robert Griffin III, because apparently there are qualifiers, though stereotypical (i.e. You cannot have a socially colored white fiancee and you cannot be Republican.), for authentic blackness. For Parker, RG III […]

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Redskins to Pigskins

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Washington City Paper has decided to no longer refer to the D.C.’s NFL team as the Washington Redskins.  Their new name?  The Washington Pigskins.  I think that it has a nice ring to it.  What about you?

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