Vol. 1 No. 1, February 2022

Exploring Sport as a Subject for Critique, and Potential Places for Constructive Thinking in Theological Inquiry

Colin Destache

Abstract

Sport grips cross-sections of the world like little else. In this season of the Olympiad, perhaps it is a relevant event to help paint this picture. When the Olympics open, it is expected that an estimated 20 million people will tune in just for the opening ceremonies – not to mention the events and competitions that will take place in subsequent weeks.1The NFL’s Super Bowl will almost surely fetch the attention of over 100 millions viewers, as it has in recent years, and is already breaking records for the price of championships tickets.2 In the United States in particular, and across the world more generally, youth sports participation is at an all-time high and is as competitive in nature as ever.3 Even in the midst of a global pandemic, sport has hardly ceased. Early on, sport could not help but rear its head in newly adapted sports talk shows, daily planning of how to return to “normal” competition, and the early release of sports documentaries to tame the appetites of sport deprived fans.4 Today, it largely continues as “normal” even as the day-to-day lives of millions remained disrupted.

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