Sports and Spirituality

Sports and Spirituality
Using the lens of athletics to more fully understand the spiritual life

Sunday, April 25, 2021

To A Coach Dying Young: In Remembrance of Mark Halvorson of De La Salle Wrestling

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A. E. Houseman wrote the elegiac poem "To An Athlete Dying Young." It's haunting. mysterious beautiful and tragic. It resonate...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Numbers—The Color Palatte of Sports

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Walking across campus —from one classroom to the next—my eyes feasted a sea of jerseys. Niners, Warriors and Giants. Sharks, old school Sain...
Monday, April 19, 2021

You Can't Be What You Can't See: New Perspectives via Golf

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"You can't be what you can't see."— Marian Wright Edelman I was familiar with the words of American activist and founder o...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Matsuyma, Hideki: Honoring the Victory, Custom and Culture of the 2021 Masters Champion

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Japanese culture places such emphasis on the family, that professional athletes are introduced and recognized by their last name first. It i...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Sight and Vision: The Green is Sacred Space

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It is no secret that I have long believed that sports and golf in particular serve as a worthy analog for understanding the spiritual life. ...
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Anne Stricherz works in the Office of Adult Spirituality at Saint Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. She teaches in the Religious Studies department and is working on her third book about life lessons from Sports and Spirituality.
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