We suggest the amount of heat surrounding this issue reflects a feature of American life about which the church should have much to say - namely, the nationalistic desire to see unity expressed in embodied forms in public spaces. On a larger stage, President Donald Trump called NFL players who knelt during the anthem "sons of bitches" and advised they be fired by their respective teams. Those athletes who have chosen to kneel during the anthem to draw attention to racial injustice and police brutality in the United States have been widely vilified.Īt a Christian university where one of us teaches, football players who knelt during the anthem sparked a protest by local veterans, angry letters to the town paper, community pressure to "Stand Up or Get Out," and the attempt by university administration to mandate that players stand during the anthem. Over the last year, Americans have been fixated on the behaviour of athletes and spectators during the singing of the national anthem at sporting events. Andrews Chair in Christian Unity at Greenville University. Kent Dunnington is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Biola University.
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