1092. A Christian Sportswriter’s Perspective on Faith and Sports – John Strege, 4/18/24

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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John Strege, Sports Writer In the Big Inning

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0:00.0	This is Molly Hemingway of the Federalist.
0:03.0	Join me, my husband Mark of Real Clear Investigations,
0:07.0	12-time All-American Swimmer Riley Gaines,
0:10.0	Aaron Wren of the American Conservative and others for the 2024 Making the Case Conference Friday, July 12th and Saturday, July 13th at Concordia University Chicago.
0:22.0	Learn more at issues ETC.org making the case
0:27.0	July 12th and 13th in Chicago issues ETC
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0:34.0	One of the only places in mass media where you can still see overt displays of religious
0:49.6	sentiment gestures, things like that, particularly Christian gestures and sentiment, is in
0:56.3	professional sports. Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. We're going to
1:02.2	talk about a Christian sports writer's perspective on faith and sports. John Strangi joins us.
1:07.0	He is a lifelong Lutheran. He has spent 50 years as a sports writer including Golf Digest and the Los Angeles Times and
1:15.2	is author of several books including in the big inning.
1:18.3	John Welcome.
1:19.3	Hey, thank you very much for having me.
1:21.8	I appreciate it.
1:22.8	Your thoughts on golfer Scotty Sheffler's second Masters Championship in three years.
1:28.0	Well, obviously it's incredibly impressive.
1:32.0	He's far in
1:32.9	away the best player in the world now and it's not even close.
1:37.0	More importantly though, he's one of the most grounded
1:39.1	superstars, you know, I've ever witnessed. he's a devout Christian totally
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