Football in the Kingdom of God

Mark is away this week, so here’s something you may have missed last month.

As anticipation mounted for the World Cup final, a feature about football and faith went out on 6th July on 16 local radio stations around the country: from Yorkshire Coast Radio to Cornwall’s Pirate FM. Mark was a central commentator: speaking alongside Christian professional footballers Bruce Dyer and Bobby Hassell, he talked about the drama, joy and wackiness of football as one of the good things we can do in God’s creation.

He pointed out that everyone is living in a personal story of faith, and every football tournament is a journey into the unknown. What will win in the end, he suggested, is the creation, renewed by Jesus Christ and still containing football – purged of evil and even more beautiful than the game we know now.

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Richard Gunton

Senior Lecturer at University of Winchester

Richard is the Director of Faith-in-Scholarship at Thinking Faith Network.He also teaches statistics at the University of Winchester.His current passions include Reformational philosophy, history of sciences, ordination (the statistical sort), and wildlife gardening.He worships, and occasionally preaches, at St Mary's Church in Portchester.
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