Comments on: Church Fight Clubs: Good or Bad Idea?

By: Iola Branigan

Iola Branigan — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:38:02 +0000

I saw this really fantastic post today.Your blog post is very cogent and makes a number of good points.

By: Reid

Reid — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:39:50 +0000

I like MMA. Not as a pragmatic “outreach strategy” but because I think there is a place for combat oriented sports in culture. As a former collegiate wrestler, I also enjoy watching the competition. Yes, their is a base side to the MMA scene, but there also is in politics, music, film etc. etc. I do not find it irredeemable and Owen’s writing once before provoked me to write an apologetic for MMA.

http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2008/3/27/consumed-by-mixed-martial-arts-a-biblical-apologetic-for-mma.html

Owen, I pray you are well man – any idea of where God has you heading in the next couple of years? Princeton? You can wear sweater vests and hate MMA there – for the glory of God. Love to hear how you are doing.

By: Jonathan Dodson

Jonathan Dodson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:17:17 +0000

I find it silly and to have very little theological grounding. The male evangelical preoccupation with physical fighting is disconcerting. Could this be the product of a hypermasculine hermeneutic?

Oh, it’s also why I hesitated in calling my booklet on discipleship–Fight Clubs.

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Fight Clubs . . . at Church? | Christ and Pop Culture — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:55:22 +0000

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Church Fight Clubs « Ad Fontes — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:40:11 +0000

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