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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
19/06/2024
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
12/07/2023
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
23/07/2024
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
17/07/2025
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
02/03/2024
Podcast
Podcasts
Seen & Unseen Aloud
An aerial view of a pub with a large mural of a footballer on it

The profound and profane at sporting events, plus cafe time

Natalie Garrett
New episodes: listen to articles by Jonathan Rowlands, Graham Tomlin, and Joshua Nurcombe-Pike.
1 min read
Authored on
06/10/2025
Review
Culture
Film & TV
A player holding a finger to his lips stands in front of an indoor American football pitch.

Horror turns pro: when greatness demands blood

Yaroslav Walker
The pursuit of sporting glory turns into a fever-dream of sacrifice, madness, and mythic violence
5 min read
Authored on
14/10/2025
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
13/11/2024
Article
Comment
Purpose
A video still shows a beer can thrown at a golf amid a crows

So we won the Ryder Cup. At what cost?

Graham Tomlin
When beer flies and etiquette dies, maybe we’ve mistaken sport for something else
5 min read
Authored on
29/09/2025
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
06/08/2024
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
06/07/2024
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
28/01/2024
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Creed
A spotlit round table with podcast guests around it.
Atheism discovers Christianity — just not the inconvenient bits
Jonah Horne
Atheism
Belief
Creed
4 min read
Sarah Mullally.
Why Sarah Mullally’s appointment is about more than just breaking the stained-glass ceiling
George Pitcher
Church and state
Creed
Feminism
Leading
4 min read
Culture
A musician wearing black sits on a chair in a desert holding her guitar.
Natalie Bergman brings grief and joy to Union Chapel
Jonathan Evens
Awe and wonder
Culture
Death & life
Music
4 min read
A couple hold each others hands as they face each other.
From wheatfield to vineyard, can an ancient love story survive a replanting?
Giles Gough
Culture
Film & TV
Hospitality
Romance
4 min read
Comment
A flat screen on a desk displays a colourful pattern.
Big Tech is gaslighting us into waste
Jean Kabasomi
Comment
Digital
Sustainability
5 min read
A protestor holds a blue smoke canister towards the camera lens.
“Defending our girls” is less about safety, more about scapegoating
Belle Tindall
Comment
Feminism
Migration
Trauma
6 min read
Change
A man walks a dog along a misty city park path.
When the seasons shift, so do we
Rachael Newham
Change
Mental Health
3 min read
Wassailers emerge from a shed beside a wood
In an age of disconnection, I want to belong
Elizabeth Wainwright
Change
Community
Hospitality
6 min read

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