Look Back | Biles Champions Mental Health

Look Back | Biles Champions Mental Health

Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared at Good Faith Media on July 30, 2021. As of Monday, August 5, 2024, Biles has won Gold medals in the team event, all-around and vault competitions, and a silver medal in the floor routine at the Olympic Games in...
Enjoying Olympic Beauty

Enjoying Olympic Beauty

Let’s move on to more noble conversations about the Olympics in Paris. The entire opening ceremony was breathtaking, filled with brilliant colors, fantastic talent and stunning creativity. What a democratic move of genius to give access to the world’s...
Olympics Superstar Champions Mental Health

Olympics Superstar Champions Mental Health

Gymnast Kerri Strug completed her vault routine with a painful injury – two torn ligaments in her ankle – at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Despite the United States’ guaranteed gold medal chances, her coach Béla Károlyi pushed her to vault again at risk of...
Olympics Earn Gold Medals in Racism, Sexism

Olympics Earn Gold Medals in Racism, Sexism

My sixth-grade music teacher had a vision for that year’s annual Christmas pageant. For the life of me, I cannot remember her name. But I remember her passion for the nations, her fervent prayers during chapel and music class for the Lord Jesus to come now as we were...

How Olympics Can Reignite Our Resolve for Justice

I was hopelessly hooked on this summer’s Olympic Games, fueled no doubt by the blistering success of Team Great Britain. As medal winner after medal winner was paraded before an adoring public, it was hard not to want to feel part of the success. In their...