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God and the Games

By Kimberly Winston
Image via Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski
Aug 8, 2016
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The 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the 17-day athletic love-fest kicking off to the beat of the Korean janggu drum in Pyeongchang on Feb. 9, are a secular endeavor featuring more fanfare than faith, more spectacle than spirit.

But it was not always so.

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