How much ‘Tebowing’ is too much?

Reid Cherner

(RNS) Along with politics, it is one of two things we don't talk about at parties: sports and religion. Football has always been a religion to some. But now, thanks to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, sports and religion have become the topic du jour. Arguments over Tebow's path to the Hall of Fame can be waged, but he is surely the only proper noun (Tebow) that can become a verb (Teb...
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New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dubbed the ‘Taiwanese Tebow’

Daniel Burke | Feb 14, 2012

(RNS) "We could probably count on one hand the number of Asian-Americans who speak out as prominent Christians.," said Melanie Mar Chow of the Asian American Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry. "It's great to have a role model like him."
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Christians join fight against cockfighting

Chris Herlinger | Feb 1, 2012

(RNS) Christian leaders are joining with animal rights defenders to advocate against cockfighting, calling the sport antithetical to biblical values. By Chris Herlinger.
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Boy is source of Native American saint’s miracle

Cathy Lynn Grossman | Dec 21, 2011

(RNS) Jacob "Jake" Finkbonner of Ferndale, Wash., was 5 years old in 2006 when he split his lip playing basketball, developed a deadly flesh-eating strep infection and lay near death for months at Seattle Children's Hospital. Jake's father, Don, is Native American and a member of the Lummi tribe. Th...
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Should our bodies become bullets after death?

Daniel Burke | Oct 6, 2011

(RNS) When he dies, Clem Parnell expects his soul to ascend heavenward. He wants his ashes to be loaded into a shotgun shell and blasted at a turkey. "I will rest in peace knowing that the last thing that turkey will see is me screaming at him at about 900 feet per second," says Parnell, 59. Parnell...
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Championship coach talks God and gridiron

Greg Garrison | Jul 6, 2011

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) After Auburn University's football win over Clemson last season, coach Gene Chizik declared, "It's a God thing." After the national championship game win over the University of Oregon, he told a national TV audience, "God was with us." Chizik sees the hand of God working in hi...
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Orthodox basketball play allowed to cover her arms

Michele Chabin | Jun 21, 2011

JERUSALEM (RNS) The international basketball federation has decided to permit an Orthodox Jewish basketball player to cover her arms during competitions in accordance with her religious beliefs. FIBA made the decision several weeks after point guard Naama Shafir, a member of the Israeli national wom...
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Muslims, FBI search for answers after aborted Oregon terror plot

Allan Brettman | Nov 29, 2010

CORVALLIS, Ore. (RNS) The damage from a fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center early Sunday (Nov. 28) did not amount to much in material loss. But the symbolic wound went far deeper. Fire was apparently set to the mosque just a day after one of its on-again, off-again members was arrested in con...
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Author finds faith and fanaticism in South’s football god

Greg Garrison | Oct 5, 2010

AUBURN, Ala. (RNS) Chad Gibbs has been on a pigskin pilgrimage throughout the South, searching for spiritual truth in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Gainesville and Fayetteville. He grew up a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide and switched allegiance to his alma mater -- and the University of Alabama's archr...
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U.S. nun creates impromptu oasis to heal Haitian bodies and souls

Bob Braun | Jul 20, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS) Wearing a bright, floral blouse and pink shorts, Mita Jean Louis stares into a mirror, unmindful of the people around her. She is smiling, and someone asks if she's smiling because she sees the reflection of such a beautiful young woman. The smile vanishes. "I don't know,...
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Church coach accused of bribing refs

Matthew Kemeny / The Patriot-News | May 14, 2010

ENOLA, Pa. (RNS) A Pennsylvania church-league basketball coach has been accused of trying to pay a $2,500 bribe to two basketball officials to throw games, state police said. Michael Kman, 45, of Enola, is the coach for the Our Lady of Lourdes team in the Harrisburg CYO youth league. Kman is accused...
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