Is faith and family an appropriate pairing with sport?
Praying Hands statue on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tonight is Faith and Family night for the Tulsa Shock. At first I was dismayed by this pairing up of WNBA basketball and a Christian concert. But when I looked at the demographics of Tulsa, how can you not couple faith and family with religion in Oklahoma?
There are pre-game prayers, post-game FCA huddles, church groups singing the national anthem and “God Bless America” being blasted at baseball games. So having a Christian university (Oklahoma Wesleyan) sponsor a Christian concert after a game sounds like a very sound marketing plan in the Bible Belt. Tonight in Tulsa, we’ll see just how solid a plan this union of faith and basketball might be.
To read more of my thoughts on this issue as seen on Swish Appeal, please click here.
