{"id":921,"date":"2003-08-19T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/08\/19\/christians-and-college-athletics\/"},"modified":"2003-08-19T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T16:00:08","slug":"christians-and-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/08\/19\/christians-and-college-athletics","title":{"rendered":"Christians and College Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an incom\u00ading fresh\u00adman, trans\u00adfer stu\u00addent, or grad\u00adu\u00adate student\u2013welcome!<\/p>\n<p>I just ran across an inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle talk\u00ading about the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between Chris\u00adtians and col\u00adlege sports, a rela\u00adtion\u00adship which can be summed up in the phrase <muscular christianity. excerpt:><i>[Recent scan\u00addals] may lead the faith\u00adful to ask a new ques\u00adtion: Should a Chris\u00adt\u00adian stu\u00addent think twice before get\u00adting involved in high-pro\u00adfile col\u00adlege sports like bas\u00adket\u00adball or foot\u00adball? What kind of val\u00adues will he or she learn in that set\u00adting?<\/i><\/muscular><\/p>\n<p>Dur\u00ading the late nine\u00adteenth and ear\u00adly twen\u00adti\u00adeth cen\u00adtu\u00adry, this ques\u00adtion would have been unthink\u00adable. Why? Because col\u00adlege sports was imbued with an ide\u00adal called \u201cmus\u00adcu\u00adlar Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the belief that phys\u00adi\u00adcal activ\u00adi\u00adty and sports, espe\u00adcial\u00adly team sports, devel\u00adoped char\u00adac\u00adter, fos\u00adtered patri\u00ado\u00adtism, and instilled virtues that would serve their participants\u2014and their par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants\u2019 God\u2014well in lat\u00ader life. In oth\u00ader words, team games taught their own high eth\u00adic, and that eth\u00adic could and should be a Chris\u00adt\u00adian one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/newsletter\/2003\/aug16.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a> and learn about the ori\u00adgins of the YMCA, bas\u00adket\u00adball and the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an incom\u00ading fresh\u00adman, trans\u00adfer stu\u00addent, or grad\u00adu\u00adate student\u2013welcome! 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