{"id":30023,"date":"2014-10-15T00:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30023"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:09:58","slug":"air-force-academy-football-team-prays-with-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/air-force-academy-football-team-prays-with-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Academy Football Team Prays with Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though there have been quite a few attacks on public displays of Christianity at the US Air Force Academy, that didn&#8217;t appear to deter USAFA football players from taking a knee with their opponents at Arizona Christian University:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 523px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/usafafootball.jpg\" width=\"1466\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The USAFA JV squad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acufirestorm.com\/news\/2014\/9\/21\/FB_0921142432.aspx\">lost 42-38<\/a>. ACU President Len <!--more-->Munsil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernjournalism.com\/football-team-makes-awesome-stand-god-removed-air-force-oath\/\">had strong words<\/a> for the expression of faith in today&#8217;s military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While extreme anti-Christian groups may try to drive military cadets away from expressing their faith, young men of courage and Christian commitment will continue finding ways to express their faith in public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As to the prayer itself, the ACU football team seems to understand there are important things in life beyond the football field:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ACU captain Brennan Bowen&#8230;took the opportunity to thank God for his gridiron opponents who have made the decision to defend the liberty American enjoy&#8230;Bowen appropriately quoted John 15:13, in which Jesus assured, &#8220;Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen to that, and to religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: ACU.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there have been quite a few attacks on public displays of Christianity at the US Air Force Academy, that didn&#8217;t appear to deter USAFA football players from taking a knee with their opponents at Arizona Christian University: The USAFA JV squad lost 42-38. ACU President Len<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,4907,4909,96,956,4908,2,17,10,171,65],"class_list":["post-30023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-arizona-christian-university","tag-brennan-bowen","tag-christian","tag-football","tag-len-munsil","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}