exercise
In lockdown, our longing for the world could be the antidote to our spiritual anorexia
By Tara Isabella Burton — May 12, 2020
(RNS) — I’ve started cycling again. It’s exercise not as expensive commodity but an embrace of what it means to be in the world.
These women power through high-intensity workouts. Then they finish with prayer.
By Yonat Shimron — June 21, 2019
APEX, N.C. (RNS) — If some of the newer fitness center brands draw millennials with no particular faith, FiA draws people who tend to be more religiously conventional.
SoulCycle, capitalism and the selling of self-care
By Tara Isabella Burton — February 21, 2019
(RNS) — At the heart of the SoulCycle faith is a value system of capitalist consumerism, which it imbues, through sweat, with a metaphysical significance.
Finding God at CrossFit
By John Van Sloten — July 17, 2017
CALGARY, Alberta (RNS) — As a preacher, I felt a bit awkward walking into Calgary’s Victoria Park Crossfit gym that morning.
Rick Warren shares good news about Daniel’s weight loss plan
By Nanci Hellmich — December 3, 2013
(RNS) Warren was inspired to create a weight loss plan after he baptized more than 800 people one day in November 2010. After lowering more than 145,000 pounds of weight into the water, Warren said he thought, "Wow! Everybody's fat!"
Marathon ministry trains runners to put ‘one foot in front of the other’
By Bob Smietana — January 7, 2013
(RNS) Over the past 10 years, Mark Simpson and his wife have helped train more than 3,000 people to run a marathon. Most, like Simpson, were couch potatoes before they started. "We have faith in them until they can have faith in themselves,'' he said. By Bob Smietana.
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