Interceeding for the Irrelevant: Sports and Prayer

May 19th, 2007 | 1 min read

Watching tonight's Suns/Spurs contest brought up all kinds of interesting questions in my mind about the efficacy of prayer. The Spurs went up by 20 with about 10 minutes left--I wanted a close game, and the Suns furious rally brought them within five before the Spurs closed it out.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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