The Church of CrossFit
Gyms and other secular communities are starting to fill spiritual and social needs for many nonreligious people.
by Julie Beck
Jun 24, 2017
3 minutes
“You always know if someone goes to Harvard or if they go to CrossFit—they’ll tell you,” said Casper ter Kuile, a ministry innovation fellow at Harvard Divinity School. “It’s really interesting that evangelical zeal they have. They want to recruit you.”
CrossFit is his favorite example of a trend he has noticed: how, in the midst of the decline of religious affiliation in America, and , many ostensibly non-religious communities are “functioning in ways that look.
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