Jeremy Lin’s “Unselfish Basketball”

June 11, 2012 By

Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard ran a great review of my recent book, “Jeremy Lin: The Reason for the Linsanity.”  It begins thus: There’s a big hole in the National Basketball Association playoffs. A riveting storyline went AWOL. A level of excitement that might have gripped the final playoff series this week is sadly [...]

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Faith at Work in the Fields of Play, Part 1

April 9, 2012 By

In a post last week, I wrote: “Training the body is, or can be, a profound and necessary school for the spirit.”  I promised that I would flesh this out in later posts.  I want to begin that now. First, note the qualifier.  Training the body is or can be a profound and necessary school for the spirit. [...]

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Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin, and Why God Cares About Sports

March 29, 2012 By

Isn’t it degrading to suggest that God cares about sports?  Isn’t that anthropomorphizing?  Are we, like the ancient Greeks with their stories of gods who did all sorts of silly and petty and naughty things, really supposed to imagine that God dons a cheese-wedge upon his head and roots for the Packers? With war and [...]

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Jeremy Lin and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

February 6, 2012 By

Sometimes compliments are the worst insults. In early 2010, back when he was a Harvard phenom, I had the privilege of interviewing NBA basketballer Jeremy Lin.  We were still building this crazy thing called Patheos, so I met Jeremy at his dorm and used a $150 HD camera.  I presented the interview in text form [...]

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