|The Emerging Paralympics Prayer

Today I finished reading Dan Kimball's The Emerging Church. Good stuff. Bill Bossert recommended it to me. (Emerging)

Today Reuters.com announced the Paralympics are just ahead. I said to myself, "That means Zupan and Wheelchair Rugby are about to take center stage." Check it out. (Paralympics)

Today I learned that Donald Miller gave the benediction at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention. Maybe you already knew. Maybe you already knew that he had an email dialogue with Obama. (Prayer)

|Clothes

From a very personal, spiritual and moving piece, to this...



I found it, along with this next one on Japanese Olympian, Naomi Yotsumoto, at the Redcrow Quality Goods blog. See also ThreadBanger and Etsy.

Sports Movies

Tonight Bob pressed play and Glory Road appeared before our very eyes. What a great film. It relates the unexpected success of the Texas Western basketball team in 1966. They became the first NCAA Division 1 team to play with an all black starting line-up.

This was the third sports/coaching/racial film we've watched together in the past few months. We've also watched these based-on-a-true-story sports thrillers...

Coach Carter. In this film the focus is as much on academic performance and discipline as on winning games. It's well worth your time. Finally, we've also seen...

Remember the Titans. A Virginia high school struggles with racist attitudes when the new football coach brings black players on board.

I found all three entertaining and thought provoking. These powerful presentations are made all the stronger by the fact that they represent the fears, struggles, and courage of real people in real life. For me, truth is more powerful than fiction.