Randy Stinson, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, has been running a great series on how he “uses the game of baseball in the lives of his two sons to build Christian character and cultivate biblical masculinity.”
I’m not at all a sports fan, so you know this must be good if I’m enjoying it! 
Those are great articles, and a neat way to see the “classic” game.
What I wonder as I read the lessons though- is the author talking about these lessons - humility, winning and losing well, understanding authority, dealing with unfairness, etc- as “principles of manhood” because he just has sons? or are they values unique to men, that daughters don’t need to learn as well?
Or would he say daughters should be taught the lessons too, just not through baseball?
By: Joanna on May 30, 2008
at 1:53 pm
I think that what he would say just what he said at the beginning of the article:
“I will point out some ways in which we use the game of baseball in the lives of our sons to build Christian character and cultivate biblical masculinity.”
None of these lessons appears to be anything exclusive to men, nor is sport, nor is baseball, nor is godly character. But as you say, Dr. Stinson has boys. And they play baseball. So, this is what he does, and he shared it. Why? A lot of boys play baseball. A lot of boys need to be taught godliness of character, and a good context for doing it is baseball, which is traditionally (culturally) a boys’ game.
By: James Kubecki on May 30, 2008
at 2:26 pm
