Calling Audibles Blog Series
The current volatility in big time football raises deep concerns for our sports-crazed culture. What can we do to right the wrongs? How can we find the redemptive thread in this great love of ours?
Starting November 14 and continuing for the next few weeks, I'm blogging about big time football as my family faces a probable transition of our own due to the upheaval with the UNC football program. This blog series, “Calling Audibles,” will be a mix of personal narrative, witnessing, and theological reflection.
When a quarterback “calls an audible” he changes the play because of something he sees in the defense. It seems to me we need to be so responsive and skilled in the way we understand the signs of our times. We see more clearly what we’re up against: corruption, inequity, and distorted values. This series explores those realities and seeks new ways to respond.
Peace,
Calling Audibles Part XVIII: Bright Lights, Small Shadows
…truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me… ~Matthew 25: 45 My seven year old daughter woke up this morning and said, “It’s Super Bowl Eve!” Indeed it is. And as a football family we are, of course, looking forward to the biggest game of the year, the pinnacle... Read the full post
Calling Audibles Part XVII: Game Plan
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts ~Isaiah 55: 8-9 Lots of people ask me what football coaches do while they are working all those long hours. “What could they possibly be doing in there... Read the full post
Calling Audibles Part XVI: American Idol(atry)
Strive at first to meditate Upon the sameness of yourself and others, In joy and sorrow all are equal Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself ~Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva … the human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols. ~John Calvin, The Institutes An idol is anything we excessively adore. That something may well be worth... Read the full post
Calling Audibles Part XV: A Sam’s Town Hotel and Casino Christmas
…Mary was about to be delivered… there was no room in the inn…Mary laid her baby in a feeding trough among the sheep and cows….wise men and working men followed a wild star to come and see this baby. Christmas is a time of paradox and contradiction. In a world so full of paradox and contradiction, we have tried to turn away from the sharp edges... Read the full post
