Fast Feet
By Bill Crowder, Sport Spectrum Chaplain While in Chile for a Bible conference, I was resting at the hotel when a rugby match came on the television. Though I don’t fully understand rugby, I enjoy it, and admire the courage it takes to play such a dangerous game. During the game, one of the French [...]
A Different Game
By Bill Crowder, Sport Spectrum Chaplain I just returned from two weeks in Australia and New Zealand, where I once again had the opportunity (or challenge) to try and understand Australian Rules Football, or “Footy” as it is called down under. There is definitely more “foot” in Footy than there is in American football (which [...]
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By Chris Wale What do the following players (to name just a few) have in common: Andy Farrell, Ben MacDougall, Brad Thorn, Ryan Cross, and Jason Robinson? They all switched to rugby union from rugby league. The two codes of rugby are strikingly different and require different approaches and dis-ciplines. When a player chooses to [...]
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By Chris Wale Pierre Spies, the talented South African number 8, has gone through many difficulties we can empathise with. When he was 15 years old, his parents divorced, and only a few years later his father died. Spies then decided to trust God with his life, but that didn’t mean the tough times ended. [...]
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By Chris Wale During the 1991 World Cup when he was playing for Samoa, Apollo Perelini earned the nickname ‘Terminator’ because of his hard tack-les. So it might be surprising to hear that he is a Christian. It might be even more surprising to hear what Perelini has to say about being a Christian rugby [...]
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By Chris Wale Timo Tagaloa, a retired Western Samoa winger, remembers being dumbstruck by two questions asked by a young Christian. The man asked: “Timo, if you were to die tonight, on a scale of 0 to 100, how sure are you that you would spend eternity with God?” And then he asked, “Timo, if [...]
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By Jon Lindsay If you could have everything you wanted, what would you say? Former England winger Jason Robinson had to answer that question. He was one of the brightest talents of his generation, a star in both rugby league and union. He had fame, fortune, and adoration. “I had all a young man could [...]
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