{"id":43222,"date":"2017-07-03T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43222"},"modified":"2017-07-03T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:41:30","slug":"finally-jackie-robinsons-faith-getting-attention-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/finally-jackie-robinsons-faith-getting-attention-deserves.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Finally, Jackie Robinson\u2019s Faith Is Getting the Attention It Deserves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43223\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/1024px-Jackie_Robinson_1950-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43223\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43223\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/1024px-Jackie_Robinson_1950-1-799x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Jackie Robinson\" width=\"596\" height=\"764\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Robinson in 1950 (Wikimedia CC)<br>I\u2019m proud to say that he grew up not far from where I did, and that he attended UCLA, as I did, and that he played for the Dodgers, my favorite team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Angelina Jolie brought the remarkable book <em>Unbroken<\/em> to the screen, I feared and predicted that, in typical modern-Hollywood fashion, she would slight (if not altogether ignore) the deeply powerful religious aspect of Louis Zamperini\u2019s already stunning story.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the film lived down to my expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Please read the book. \u00a0It\u2019s stunning.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same fear was realized when <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> was turned into a movie. \u00a0It\u2019s a good film. \u00a0I\u2019ve enjoyed it more than once. \u00a0But the last scene, so very different from the stage version, was especially disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the story of Jackie Robinson, the great pioneering black baseball player, has likewise been secularized in most tellings:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2017\/june-web-only\/jackie-robinsons-faith-attention-deserves.html?start=3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2017\/june-web-only\/jackie-robinsons-faith-attention-deserves.html?start=3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a real shame. \u00a0Moreover, Branch Rickey\u2019s religiosity deserves to be remembered, as well. \u00a0For those who, like the late Christopher Hitchens, insist that religion poisons everything, accurate information about reality can pose a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Boston, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 When Angelina Jolie brought the remarkable book Unbroken to the screen, I feared and predicted that, in typical modern-Hollywood fashion, she would slight (if not altogether ignore) the deeply powerful religious aspect of Louis Zamperini\u2019s already stunning story. \u00a0 Unfortunately, the film lived down to my expectations. \u00a0 (Please read the book. \u00a0It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Finally, Jackie Robinson\u2019s Faith Is Getting the Attention It Deserves&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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