Word: fellowships
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However inelegant that sweat-soaked version of the Gospel according to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, muscular metaphors are nothing new to Christianity. St. Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...
...FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, started in 1955, has a mailing list of 55,000 and a staff of 36. Its purpose: "to confront athletes and coaches-and through them the youth of the nation -with the challenge and adventure of following Christ." The high point of its easygoing program is a series of week-long summer conferences, which 9,500 athletes, coaches, and their families will attend this year, starting May 27 at Arkansas Tech. The F.C.A. sponsors groups at 1,400 high schools and 215 colleges, and schedules banquets, golf tournaments, and pre-Bowl breakfasts for adults...
Thomson acknowledges that receiving a Nieman Fellowship is considered an award by members of the profession and that it puts a feather in the cap of young journalists...
Sims said he applied for a Fellowship because he felt that as a black professional, he would be needed to explain what "black people are doing and why they got there." A year later, Sims says that he feels less strongly about that particular goal. "This year has helped to convince me that Americans blacks are two distinct things--they're Americans and they're blacks, in that order," Sims said. "Unlike all other groups, except for Mayflower Wasps and American Indians, they are in a unique position. Blacks don't have a heritage except an American one. They...
...Cirmson reported last month that the Institute had approved a fellowship offer for Magruder. At that time, May denied the report, insisting that Magruder was only one of several people being considered...