What does it mean to play sports for the glory of God?

And how do you keep someone from tying their identity to their success in sports?

And why do parents sometimes have a greater interest in their child's success in sports

than the child himself or herself does?

We'll answer these questions and a whole lot more with our guest, our colleague in theology, Dr. Eric Taunas.

I'm your host, Scott Ray. I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell. This is Think Biblically from Tablet School of Theology at Biola University. Eric, so glad to have you here with us. I look so forward to having your insights on this particular topic. This is not a topic we've addressed before, and I think you've got a lot to say about this with your past as an athlete, but both, you know, watching athletes at Biola and, you know, doing some coaching yourself as well.

So great to have you with us.

Great to be with you guys.

Tell us how you developed such an interest in this, in the subject of a theology of play

and sports.

And why do you think this subject is so important for us to cover?

I had a lot of challenges early on in my life as a kid,

and sports early on became therapy for me.

It became an escape, and it became a place to go in the park and challenges I may have elsewhere

were a million miles away when I was out playing basketball or football at Colity Park

and at Sony, Connecticut.

And it was.

It was, I didn't realize it at the time.

I'll pick up.

Yeah.

I'll pick up games.

Early on, yeah.

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