The latest NFL season is a distant memory, but youth ministry leaders are still assessing what Tim Tebow’s sudden fame means for faith and football.
Read YWJ Senior Editor Chap Clark’s article, “An Open Letter to Tim Tebow: The World’s Most Famous Late Adolescent,” at Chap’s ParenTeen site.
YWJ‘s “Managing Your Ministry” columnist Syler Thomas sees a little bit of his younger self in Tebow, as he explains in a column he wrote for The Chicago Tribune.
Jeremy Lin has been on fire since he gained a starting role for the NBA’s New York Knicks. David Brooks’ Feb. 17 column in The New York Times examines the tensions between being a success in sports (competition and ambition versus selfless sacrifice). Brooks also quotes an interview Lin did with the Patheos website in 2010. The interview highlights Lin’s faith long before he was a superstar.
New contributor Ryan Blanck offers “Tebow, Lin and the Dragonslayer,” focusing on earning the right to be heard about matters of faith.
