Barnabas Piper, Author/Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 375
Barnabas Piper is the author of three books including his latest, "The Curious Christian." He is an avid sports fan with allegiances to the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Twins. His father John Piper, is an influential pastor who leads Desiring God ministries.
On this episode of the podcast, Barnabas shares about growing up as the son of John Piper, his love/hate/love relationship with his sports teams, taking sports fandom too seriously, his love for books and his top 3 sports books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
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| 1:26.1 | Today in the podcast, we welcome Barnabas Piper to the program. |
| 1:30.2 | Barnabas is an author, a speaker, huge sports fan. |
| 1:34.7 | Minneapolis teams are who he cheers for, the twins and the Timberwolves and the Vikings. |
| 1:41.6 | Barnabas is a great follow on Twitter, just at Barnabas Piper, and you'll see |
| 1:45.4 | his sports fandom on display through his tweets. He's also the author of three books, The Pastors' Kid |
| 1:52.2 | in 2014, Help My Unbelief, which came out in 2015, and The Curious Christian in 2017. |
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