The Faith Adjacent History of the Olympics, Interviews with Real Olympians, and Biblical Bobsled Competitions
Faith Adjacent
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Step up to the podium alongside this gold medal-worthy replay episode as Erin presents a Faith Adjacent deep dive of the Olympics! We’ll go faster, higher, and stronger together as we unpack the ancient origins and modern resurgence of the Olympics, explore the use of athletic metaphors throughout scripture, and hear interviews from actual Olympic gold medalists Laura Wilkinson and Bryan Clay in our most athletic episode yet! You’ll also hear a sneak preview of our very contentious, Patreon-exclusive Faith Adjacent Winter Olympics!
MENTIONS
- The Faith Adjacent Winter Olympics: Listen with a 7-day free trial
- Past Olympics Episodes: The Faith Adjacency of the Olympics | The Faith Adjacent Seminary Olympics | Full Interviews with Laura Wilkinson and Bryan Clay
- Where to Watch: Peacock
- Investigative Journalism: An Oral History of Bob Costas Having Pink Eye at the Olympics
- Laura Wilkinson: Website | Instagram | Book - Life at 10 Meters: Lessons from an Olympic Champion | Watch her win gold
- Bryan Clay: Instagram | Book - Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, A Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold | Watch him win gold
- Kerri Strug: Website | Instagram
- Watch: National Geographic History of the Olympics
- Listen: Season 9, Episode 4: Constantine
- Christian History: Revisiting the Pagan Olympic Games
- Father of Modern Olympics: Pierre de Coubertin Deep Dive
- Gym Bros: History of the YMCA
- Bible Sports Metaphors: 1 Corinthians 9:24-26 | 2 Timothy 4:6-8 | Hebrews 12:1-3 Galatians 2:2 | Philippians 2:16
- Read: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- Sha’Carri Richardson: Read more here
- Bible Scholar Resources: The New Testament in its World by N.T. Wight | The Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible | Perseverance in Gratitude by David A. deSilva
- Olympic Scholar Resources: The Games by David Goldblatt | Ancient Greek Athletics, by Stephen G. Miller | A Brief History of the Olympic Games by David C. Young
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Beva Jason. |
| 0:14.4 | Joining me going for the gold today is Evan Dodson, and we are dipping into the |
| 0:20.0 | Vafa Jason archives to give you one of our |
| 0:22.0 | favorite past episodes plus a little bonus treat at the end. We love the Olympics here so much. |
| 0:29.9 | And we're going to link in the show notes to all the Olympic themed episodes that we've done here |
| 0:34.0 | on the main feed and also in our Patreon. |
| 0:41.4 | So in honor of the Winter Olympics that are happening right now, we are giving you a Batha Jason episode from the days when Faith of Jason was just a category of episode in the |
| 0:46.9 | Bible binge and not the name of the entire podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | You will hear interviews on this episode with actual Olympians. |
| 0:54.8 | We're going to unpack the ancient origins and modern resurgence of the Olympics. |
| 0:59.8 | You know I love a deep dive. |
| 1:01.1 | We're going to explore the use of athletic metaphors throughout scripture and so much more. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay, and then stick around at the end of the episode because we're giving you a clip of our wildly contentious and unnecessarily competitive faith-adjacent Winter Olympics in which Aaron and I took characters from the Bible and had them go head to head in various sports, such as the biathlon, figure skating, and Bob Slay or Sled. |
| 1:25.0 | We never figured out what it's called, you know? |
| 1:32.1 | You can listen to this entire episode by starting a seven-day free trial of the Faith of Jason's Seminary. |
| 1:33.1 | During this free trial, you can get access to a back catalog of over 300 episodes. |
| 1:38.9 | You can join in with the best community on the internet, and you can listen to this episode |
| 1:44.0 | right now, ad free. |
| 1:45.9 | So my recommendation would actually be to just go ahead and pause this episode right now. |
| 1:50.8 | Head over to Patreon. |
| 1:51.8 | Do that trial if you haven't already. |
| 1:53.2 | But now, without further ado, here's faith adjacent colon, the Olympics. |
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