Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse
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Why do sports matter so much to so many people? And why should we care? Far from being a distraction or a trivial pastime, sports tell us deep truths about ourselves. Big-time sports are a particularly potent mirror for humanity--reflecting both our promising possibilities and our demonic distortions. Theologian (and football coachs wife) Marcia Mount Shoop invites you to take a closer look at the hold that sports have on us.Touchdowns for Jesus takes you beneath the veil in some of the most challenging issues in sports today: fanaticism, sexism, racism, and abuse of power. And beneath the lifted veil you also encounter wisdom about how we can find our way back to what is most life-giving about sports. If you love sports, or if you just wonder why others do, Touchdowns for Jesus will give you a whole new way to view the games people play.Mount Shoopss new book, Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse, will become a classic for everyone, from fans to scholars, looking to frame collegiate sports in a way that offers tangible ideas and inspiration for refashioning this billion dollar industry so that it insures student-athletes are accepted, nurtured, and prepared for the championship we call life.--Emmett Gill, Assistant Professor of Social Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCWith eloquent intensity, Marcia W. Mount Shoop challenges all we think we know about the college and professional sports culture that has uniquely enveloped the last two decades of her life as a coachs wife, mother, and minister. As Shoop writes, Football provides us with an apocalypse worth our gaze, and her personal tales--from shouting at hecklers at Soldier Field to getting kicked out of a wives Bible study--enrich the wisdom of her words. . . . By the end, its easy to feel better for having examined Shoops powerful language that creates a clearer understanding of the redemptive powers of sport.--David Haugh, Chicago Tribune sports columnist, Chica
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