Playing for God BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Governmental More than a manual of

More than a manual of technical considerations

humanity of one of the nation’s most vulnerable populations

because he was in a wheelchair

solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create a truly post-racial landscape

young English boys who were forced to live with powerful Indian leaders to act as intermediaries

Playing for God BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Governmental More than a manual ofWhen sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too, reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it