Jonathan Rainey - Seattle Seahawks team chaplain on faith in the locker room of the NFC champions

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Rainey is the team chaplain of the 2025 NFC champion Seattle Seahawks.

Jonathan joins the show today to share about what this 2025 season has been like, the Bible studies and chapel services he's led, and what it means to see players be outspoken about their faith.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:01.9	This week's Super Bowl coverage of Super Bowl 60 for Sports Spectrum is brought to you by Adoption is an option.
0:07.8	Jason has a lot of more information for us on that too.
0:10.6	Yeah, adoption is an option, Matt.
0:12.1	We're so glad to have them partnering with us.
0:14.4	And it's not any sort of adoption agency or a referral service.
0:18.7	And here's the thing.
0:19.3	They don't want anything from you. All they want to do
0:22.1	is exist to help people understand what private infant adoption really looks like today. Because too
0:29.1	often, it's missing from our most urgent and important conversations. And I know adoption and adoption is an
0:36.3	option is a very, let's just say it's near and dear to your heart as well and your family.
0:41.1	Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's been a storyline within my family multiple generations wise. And that is special. I think that's a special thing that we got to hit on is that they don't want anything from you. You know, they want you to sit there and say oh well what's the price and what's the cost because most people have
0:57.9	a transactional aspect of what they're promoting and so for them to just want to educate and enlighten
1:03.9	people on what's going on is huge especially within an adoption world yeah and throughout the week
1:09.7	we'll talk more about adoption as an option on sports spectrum, including talking to the founder, John Knox, later this week. And I want you at some point, too, to share your adoption story, including your wife, who was adopted and has a great story that's videoed through adoption as an option. So we'll talk about that and hear more about that later. But for now, we want to just thank them to be partners with us here at Sports Spectrum at Super Bowl 60 in San Francisco.
1:33.1	And you can learn more about adoption as an option at adoption. Is. Adoption.is with adoption is an option.
1:43.5	Yeah, I don't play for the fame.
1:45.5	I play for the king.
1:47.2	Yeah, every step on the field, let the heavens ring.
1:50.9	Got Jesus in my heart, so I run with a purpose.
1:54.0	Yeah, this is sports spectrum.
1:56.4	Faith on the surface.
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