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My famous. I think it's a huge component and the basic reason why I got here all the bumps

and bruises and the pad that guys laid up sitting out what I wanted to hang out the other way and just

sorry I'm going to lost a word but I mean, building that faith throughout college.

And now I've been able to share my faith with just amazing teammates.

And just the community of faith and realizing, you know, having God on my side,

always, you know, praying Jesus Christ. It's incredible.

I can't say anything but man enough.

That's Indiana University quarterback Fernando Mendoza speaking about his Christian faith.

In a press conference after receiving the Heisman Trophy, he talked about the faith, sharing the

faith, the community of faith, and Jesus Christ.

Welcome back to Issues at Satter. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about media coverage of the Christian faith and the college football playoffs.

Terry Mattingly, he's seen your fellow on Communications and Culture at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas.

He writes Rational Sheep,

his substack newsletter on Faith, Family, and Mass Media. He's author of the National On-Religion column for the Andrews McMeal Universal Syndicate, and for two decades, he led the getreligion.org

website. Terry, welcome back. Glad to be here. Does it really matter that the Heisman

trophy winner and the leader of the nation's number one team is a very

strong Catholic who came out of nowhere? Well, in one sense, you could say that it isn't a story

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