Corny Reimer, a minor Mennonite poet and a major baseball fanatic, once penciled the following verse: "The Bible days were not all sorrow and woe / The people laughed and danced and enjoyed divers sports / Moses, in Genesis, wrote of a big inning / And it is said that David once served in the courts."
Admittedly, his theological insight was probably no better than his facility with words. However, the stanza reminded me that people often seek biblical justification for their obsessions.
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Sports have always played a role in church life, at least as a source of metaphors: "the sermon went into overtime," and "the evangelist's talk hit the …
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