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Maradona runs in celebration, holding a hand aloft as an England player sits dejected on the ground.

The decade that defined sport 

Simon Burton-Jones
What the sports stars of today owe to the eighties.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-06-19
Article
Comment
Sport
A tennis player stands ready to return a shot, while a phalanx of photographers crowd round a court-side opening to take a picture of him.

Winning the emotional whole in elite sport

Jonny Reid and Graham Daniels
As the pressure builds at Wimbledon, Jonny Reid and Graham Daniels reflect on the psychology vulnerabilities sports stars face.
3 min read
Authored on
2023-07-12
Review
Art
Culture
An impressionist painting of runners bunched together on the bend of a track.

The collective effervescence of sport’s congregation

Jonathan Evens
Art captures how sport and religion are entwined throughout history.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-07-23
Article
Culture
Sport
A cricket batsman surrounded by opposition players leaves the crease.

Scottie Scheffler has a lesson for this summer's fading sports teams

Graham Tomlin
The Open Champion's musings speak to the demise of Welsh Rugby and West Indian cricket
5 min read
Authored on
2025-07-17
Article
Creed
Idolatry
A professional footballer wearign a red top stands proudly beneath a white and black banner.

Idols or idiots? Why sporting stars cannot bear the weight we place on them

Graham Tomlin
Why it’s wise to know their place, and ours, in the universe.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-03-02
Column
Culture
Football
A striker is about kick a football towards a goal, a red beach ball sits between him and the goalkeeper.

Referees and stupidity

Jonathan Rowlands
What one referee’s foul-mouthed rant tells us about the nature of sport, and authority.
7 min read
Authored on
2024-11-13
Article
Character
Creed
A swimmer at the end of a race, looks to the result screen.

Letter to the Olympians

Ashley Null
A veteran sports chaplain writes a letter to Christian Olympians, on how they can find joy amid the 'funerals and weddings' of the games.
6 min read
Authored on
2024-08-06
Review
Culture
Football
A footballer takes a penalty kick.

Shootout: what penalties say about life

Simon Burton-Jones
Football is a global language and the shootout is the end to Shakespearian tragedy.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-07-06
Editor's pick
Creed
Freedom
A gaggle of cricket players, dressed in whites, stand on the field. One raises there arm

Can Bazball teach us something about freedom?

Cameron Wiltshire-Plant
In the wake of England's remarkable victory over India in Hyderabad, Cameron Wiltshire-Plant explores the unlikely links between Bazball and the spiritual life.
7 min read
Authored on
2024-01-28
Snippet
Culture
Film & TV
Brad Pitt dressed as a racing driver stands with a car in the background

F1 feeds our need for speed

Imogen Ball
The high-speed life isn’t just on our screens
3 min read
Authored on
2025-07-02
Article
Comment
Sport
A rugby ball sails towards a player in a striped jersey from the foot of a kicker who has a leg and an arm extended out.

Why are sportspeople so superstitious?

Jonny Reid
Routine and rhythm help performance, but sporting superstition begs a question, writes Jonny Reid. Who do we really think is in control?
4 min read
Authored on
2023-09-16
Article
Character
Creed
A golfer cups his face as he realises he has won.

Scheffler’s secure identity

Jonny Reid
At the top of the game, win at all costs doesn't cut it.
4 min read
Authored on
2024-04-17
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Creed
An author sits and listens.
Marilynne Robinson: “an ordinary person is as metaphysically amazing as Julius Caesar”
Nick Jones
Belief
Books
Creed
15 min read
A woman sits and smiles in front of her bookcase.
When the answers run out: Kate Bowler on faith, fragility, and the beauty of uncertainty
Nick Jones
Creed
Mental Health
Trauma
17 min read
Culture
A seated teenager stretches back bored, a phone is on the table in front of them
Could thinking and feeling become futile pastimes in the future?
Jamie Mulvaney
AI
Culture
Digital
Education
6 min read
A nun on a white horse, gallops across a snowy field, in black and white
Mother Vera: from heroin addict to heroine helping the recovering
Susan Gray
Addiction
Culture
Film & TV
Monastic life
5 min read
Comment
Elderly amateur sleuth stand by their pinboard.
Murder we wrote: how cosy crime and psycho-thrillers carve our minds
Theodore Brun
Books
Comment
Film & TV
Morality
6 min read
A Union Jack is draped over a railing, next to a red flag saying Jesus.
Which nation are you flying the flag for?
Julia Kendal
Comment
Identity
Nationalism
5 min read
Change
A people sumggler steers an overcrowded small boat.
The facts and our feelings both puncture the small boats-fuelled immigration argument
Roger Standing
Change
Community
Migration
Politics
9 min read
A knitted post box topper shows a group of people and the word powerhouse.
Local businesses can love their neighbours, here’s how
Marjorie Neasham Glasgow
Character
Community
Economics
4 min read

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