Playing for God Rachel Lipson the play engages with issues

the play engages with issues of race and immigration in modern Ireland and aims to be a model for intercultural collaboration

Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life

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The book is written for general interest and academic audiences

Playing for God Rachel Lipson the play engages with issuesWhen sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too," reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it