They Also Serve...: Tennis - A Global Religion
Sep 2011 · eBookIt.com
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Global Religion brings humor smack back into the center of sport. The sport 'pie, ' that goes back way beyond Homer, has many ingredients.
Fun, recreation, competition, exercise, teamwork, entertainment -- all play various roles in various games. Recently work, money and politics have taken some sports by storm. In They Also Serve...Tennis -- A Global Religion, the 'good laugh and quiet smile' of Wild...takes a step further. By bringing "clerical" figures -- Cardinals, Popes, Imams, Rabbis and Abbesses -- onto the tennis court, their "decorum" is shattered and a low key chuckle emerges. Humor and Tennis are both cohesive -- they bring people together as in the original Olympics for peaceful, enjoyable, channeled competition. Winning no longer entails annihilating the opponent but relishing the challenge, fostering prowess, dexterity and achievement.
Perhaps sportsmanship can trickle down into world religion.
Fun, recreation, competition, exercise, teamwork, entertainment -- all play various roles in various games. Recently work, money and politics have taken some sports by storm. In They Also Serve...Tennis -- A Global Religion, the 'good laugh and quiet smile' of Wild...takes a step further. By bringing "clerical" figures -- Cardinals, Popes, Imams, Rabbis and Abbesses -- onto the tennis court, their "decorum" is shattered and a low key chuckle emerges. Humor and Tennis are both cohesive -- they bring people together as in the original Olympics for peaceful, enjoyable, channeled competition. Winning no longer entails annihilating the opponent but relishing the challenge, fostering prowess, dexterity and achievement.
Perhaps sportsmanship can trickle down into world religion.
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Ralph Wright, OSB is a Benedictine monk at Saint Louis Abbey in Saint Louis, Missouri. A noted hymnist and poet, Father Ralph was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1938. He received his early education at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and later spent two years in the British Army. He studied the classics at Oxford University and theology at Fribourg in Switzerland before being ordained a priest in 1970. At his abbot's request, he left England to join Saint Louis Abbey in the United States where he has lived for over forty years. Currently, he is Vocations Director at the Abbey and teaches Theology, Creative Writing and Tennis in St Louis Priory School.
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