The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are over and while there was controversy, a number of athletes from around the world used the huge audience to share their faith. Team Fiji posted a ...
Read More »FCA camps connect coaches with families as well as Christ this summer
For many student-athletes, summer means attending Fellowship of Christian Athletes camps. This significant experience will become a gamechanger, both athletically and spiritually, according to the Kansas City-based ministry In addition to the ...
Read More »Baptist missions team sharing gospel during Paris Olympics
Despite some being upset with the imagery in the Olympics’ opening ceremonies, other Christians are actually making a difference in the lives of the athletes, including the Baptist International Mission Board which ...
Read More »French Bible Society to distribute 200,00 Bibles during Olympics
Athletes and spectators participating in the summer Olympics in Paris will receive a special edition of the New Testament, thanks to the French Bible Society. The organization plans to hand out 140,000 ...
Read More »FCA launched “24 Hours of Unbroken Prayer” today
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes today kicked off 24 hours of unbroken global prayer. The effort runs Friday, Feb. 16 through Saturday. “Prayer is a foundational component of a Christian’s spiritual walk, ...
Read More »Christian Chiefs players have priorities in order on Super Bowl Sunday
Although hundreds of millions of people around the world will be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, Christian athletes will be playing for an audience of one. “The Washington Times” spotlighted several ...
Read More »Christian college was first school to violate Kansas transgender sports law
Ottawa University, a small Christian college, was the first school to violate a new Kansas law banning biological male athletes, who identify as transgender, from girl’s and women’s sports. University officials said the ...
Read More »Missouri, Kansas join other states protecting female sports
As schools reopen after the summer break, more states are passing laws to protect the rights of female athletes from males who want to compete in women’s sports. The issue has moved ...
Read More »Female player recovering after injury from transgender player
Another male soccer player who identifies as transgender has injured a female player during a match. The transgender player’s aggressive shoulder check sent the female player to the ground where she lay ...
Read More »Actor Rob Schneider calls for female athletes to refuse to play against transgender men
Women athletes should refuse to compete against biological men, actor and comedian Rob Schneider says, in reference to transgender men in women’s sports. “This … has to stop,” he tweeted in response to a ...
Read More »Missouri Gov. Parson determined to enact transgender legislation during this legislative session
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has made it clear that passing transgender legislation is a priority this year, even if it means calling a special session. “We have to realize that we have ...
Read More »FCA’s Oct. 12 Fields of Faith unites students
Fields of Faith, an annual event sponsored by the Kansas City-based Fellowship of Christian Athletes, will be held on October 12. The event is led by students. Peers invite their own classmates ...
Read More »Fellowship of Christian Athletes distributed 200,000 Bibles in 2021
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which is based in Kansas City, handed out more than 200,000 Bibles in 2021. “I believe one of the reasons God continues to bless the Fellowship of ...
Read More »Like the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, world ignores genocide ahead of China’s Olympics
It should be evident to all paying attention that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will proceed as planned. Forget the meager protests against China’s cruel and immoral treatment of its own. The ...
Read More »Christian school organization, female athletes ask to join lawsuit about transgender regulations
Christian Schools International and three female athletes are trying to intervene in a lawsuit challenging President Biden’s reinterpretation of sex discrimination. The new policy will allow biological males to compete against girls ...
Read More »FCA’s inspiring Fields of Faith to take place on October 13
As millions of American schoolchildren settle back into their classrooms and their athletic programs this month, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) has announced that its key peer-to-peer autumn event, Fields of Faith, ...
Read More »Nike cut Olympic athlete’s funding 70% when they learned she was pregnant
So much for empowering women. Nike and other companies have been outed for their treatment of female Olympic athletes as the games begin this month. At that level of competition, the stakes ...
Read More »Thousands of coaches and athletes return to FCA Summer camps
Tens of thousands of student-athletes will gather again after a year of pandemic lockdowns hampered a spiritual tradition. They’ll attend Fellowship of Christian Athletes Camps across the nation and the world this ...
Read More »Tony Evans, Clark Kellogg highlight first National Day of Prayer for College Coaches
College basketball season is winding down but not the focus on faith for many coaches. Pastor Tony Evans and broadcaster Clark Kellogg were the featured speakers at the first-ever National Day of ...
Read More »FCA announces ‘Pursue’ is 2021 ministry theme
Fellowship of Christian Athletes is urging athletes to move from state of uncertainty to a position of confidence as they move into the new year. “It is important that we continue exercising ...
Read More »American sports, role models and culture
Nearly 30 years ago, in a 1993 Nike commercial, professional basketball legend Charles Barkley fired the first shot at the “role model” concept popularized by Columbia University sociologist Robert K. Merton in ...
Read More »Tony Dungy defends athletes who stand for national anthem
Tony Dungy is defending athletes who choose to stand for the national anthem. Dungy discussed the decision by Jonathan Isaac of the NBA’s Orlando Magic to stand during the anthem. Up until ...
Read More »Israeli, German fighter pilots will hold joint exercises over sites of horrific events
Israeli fighter pilots will make history in September, when they are scheduled to conduct joint military exercises with their German counterparts. The exercise will take place over the Dachau concentration camp, where ...
Read More »NCAA may boycott Idaho over law protecting women’s sports
The “cancel culture” is coming to Idaho after legislators there moved to save women’s sports. The NCAA is considering moving the 2021 men’s basketball tournament games scheduled to be played in Idaho. ...
Read More »FCA hosting virtual huddle up on Wednesday afternoons
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) is hosting a virtual huddle up on Wednesday afternoons. The organization says it’s part of their effort to keep young athletes connected in a temporary era ...
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