Tag: mma

Doodle: Hi Kids, (Why) Do You Like Violence?

To my own surprise, I’ve probably read more memoirs in the last two years than I’d previously read in my entire life. Writing that sentence I realise it might not...

Augustine On Blood Sports: "Sipping Animality"

Towards the end of last year I put up an article exploring the ethics surrounding human blood sports, particularly boxing and MMA. I argued that blood sports have created a...

Blood Sports: An Acceptable Context To Celebrate Violence

A friend recently told me about the first and last time he attended a boxing match. We were talking about a couple of my posts asking whether Christians should watch...

Doodle: Blood Sports, Animal Fighting, And Consent

Last week I posted my first article in a planned series asking whether Christians should watch blood sports. It was a tentative foray that I hoped would stir conversation and...

Should Christians Watch Blood Sports?

There is no chapter and verse I can quote to answer the question posed by my title. In fact, the Bible itself is a particularly bloody historical record, from the...