Marcus Rashford is keeping Christianity in the British limelight
From www.christiancentury.org
2022-01-03 06:42:54
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Marcus Rashford playing in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. (Photo by Kirill Venediktov, used via Creative Commons license)
Britain these days is usually cited as a deeply unpromising territory for conventional Christian belief, and especially among the young. It is startling, then, to see just how boldly that faith is displayed by some of the country’s most admired young people, and above all in sports.
The prize example is 24-year-old Marcus Rashford, a wildly popular soccer player for Manchester United: according to ESPN, his present transfer value is around $200 million. His life story fits so well into classic tales of Christian faith that it almost seems too good to be true. His mother, Melanie Maynard, who is of Afro-Caribbean origin, raised a large family through extraordinary hard work and self-denial, which often left her going hungry to feed her…