Baseball as a Road to God: Conversation with author John Sexton
Baseball as a road to God: Conversation with author John Sexton by Mike Jordan Laskey republished from National Catholic Reporter 4/18 chanan-greenblatt-50113-unsplash c.jpg Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx borough of New York City (Unsplash/Chanan Greenblatt) John Sexton, the former president of New York University, is a man of wide-ranging interests. He has a religion doctorate, is an academic lawyer and he served in university administration at NYU for over 25 years, teaching a full course load despite his demanding leadership responsibilities. He's also an enormously devoted baseball fan. Bringing a number of his passions together, Sexton starting teaching a course called "Baseball As a Road to God" in the early 2000s, which he adapted into a book in 2013. In anticipation of the start of baseball season, during which our beloved New York Yankees are hoping for a return to championship form, Sexton and I talked on the phone about what makes baseball a compelling venue ...
