OUT LOUD

“Sometimes on Sunday mornings, the elderly ladies as they’re coming through the line at the end of the service, they’ll say, ‘Hey, look at my shoes today.’ Sometimes that’s the entry point into a much deeper level of conversation. Sometimes you need something a little more surface level to get people’s guard down.”
Emily Carson
The associate pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Stewartville, Minn., was describing the relevance of her blog on “faith and fashion.” She was quoted by the Minneapolis Star Tibune.
 
“Churches have turned to athletes in the last 30, 40 years. I think it has to do with the idea of victory, that Christ defeated death and gave an award of eternal life and happiness. Poets and writers are too ambiguous. They bring up too much of the negative side, so to speak. But a football player is a kind of ideal. He’s a team man, he’s a leader, he’s a spiritual leader out on the field.”
Robert Higgs
The author of God in the Stadium: Sports & Religion in America was suggesting reasons why quarterback Tim Tebow attracts attention. He was quoted by the New York Times.