Muscular Christianity: Echoes of the Past in Today's Faith

Paul Putz from Baylor University is here to explain to Skye about how sports, football especially, has become so associated with Christianity in America. He traces the history from the early 1900’s, how it tied into the social gospel, racism, liberal Protestantism—and how it’s evolved to what we see today. And what’s a “Middlebrow Protestant?”

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