Preachers n Sneakers author Ben Kirby on identity, church wealth and Christian celebrity
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ben Kirby is the author of "Preachers n Sneakers: Authenticity in an Age of For-Profit Faith and (Wannabe) Celebrities." The former United States Marine's work has been featured in the N.Y. Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Buzzfeed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today's Sports Spectrum podcast with Ben Kirby is brought to you by the Sports Spectrum podcast network of shows. |
| 0:07.9 | For more conversations and stories on the intersection of sports and faith, visit sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:28.6 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:30.9 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:32.4 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:39.9 | This is Sports Spectrum's podcast, the intersection of sports and faith. |
| 0:44.7 | We like to bring Jesus back into the conversation, and we do that through our website, |
| 0:50.3 | sportspectrum.com, with the devotionals, podcasts, and articles that are all available for free right there on the website, sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:53.4 | We also have a magazine, a quarterly magazine |
| 0:56.0 | that's been going on now for, gosh, 36 years. And we love the magazine. The new football |
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| 1:13.5 | and gets delivered to your home. |
| 1:15.4 | But it really is a great resource. |
| 1:17.4 | And that's really what we look at at Sports Spectrum and what we do. |
| 1:20.2 | We want to be a resource for you to be able to share the gospel with someone else |
| 1:24.6 | by using sports as sort of that gateway in the middle, that in between, |
| 1:29.6 | that connects people with Jesus through sports. And that's what we do here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:34.7 | And you can subscribe to the magazine as well at the website, sportspectrum.com. And again, |
| 1:39.2 | it's $18 for an entire year's subscription, super cheap, right there at the website, |
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