Ted Kluck: 15 books
Past Time
Simulation Football Leagues, Living in the Past, and Learning to Love Football Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Author Ted Kluck found, online, a community of computer nerds and football enthusiasts so rooted in the past and so uninterested in the future that they have created algorithms and computer software that can accurately simulate football games, seasons, and careers using fields of data that already...
Robert Griffin III
Athlete, Leader, Believer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Robert Griffin III exploded onto the NFL scene with a style and flair anything but typical. With a Heisman Trophy on his mantel, RG3 entered professional football in 2012 under a spotlight that glowed beyond his own team, the Washington Redskins. Could the Baylor graduate electrify the NFL as he had...
Upside Down Football
An Inside Look at Long Snapping in the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The long snapper is perhaps the most overlooked and underappreciated position in football. He spends a great deal of his career bent over a football, with a guy either kneeling seven yards behind him or standing back at 15 yards. In a sense, the long snapper has one job—to go unnoticed. If he is...
The Drop Box
How 500 Abandoned Babies, an Act of Compassion, and a Movie Changed My Life Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Brian Ivie was filled with compassion as he read an LA Times article about Pastor Lee’s solution to unwanted newborns in South Korea—a baby drop box. Brian traveled halfway around the world to film the documentary The Drop Box. But God had even bigger plans. For in the midst of filming the plight...
Three-Week Professionals
Inside the 1987 NFL Players' Strike
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In 1987 the players of the National Football League went on strike, demanding better pay and the right to seek free agency. Determined to keep the league going, team owners pulled replacements from wherever they could be found, from the semi-pro leagues to bar stools, in order to create makeshift...
The Bride(zilla) of Christ
What to Do When God's People Hurt God's People
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Sometimes, Church Hurts
The Church, the Bride of Christ. That description conjures up images of radiant white bride, eyes sparkling with peace and harmony, right? Maybe that’s why it’s such a gut-punch when that Bride behaves more like a grade school bully or a hot tempered drill sergeant.
What...
by Ted Kluck, Kristin Kluck
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In the midst of a Christian subculture that idolizes families, an evangelical history of overcelebrating families, and a secular culture that overprograms families, one American family identifies the danger they’re in the midst of and embarks on a radical adventure. Household Gods offers an examination...
Why We're Not Emergent
By Two Guys Who Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
"You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Christian. In fact, I want to argue that it would be better if you weren't."
The Emergent Church is a strong voice in today's Christian...
Dallas and the Spitfire
An Old Car, an Ex-Con, and an Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A Suburban Dad and an Ex Con Show What Discipleship Looks Like
Ted is an educated thirty-something father of two who's been going to church his whole life. Dallas is a twenty-one-year-old former cocaine addict with a prison record who has recently become a Christian. When they agree to meet...
Jeremy Lin
Faith, Joy, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The inspiring story of Asian-American basketball player Jeremy Lin, who went from unknown underdog to rescuer of the New York Knicks in just a few weeks.
The Extraordinary Life of a Mediocre Jock
God, I’ll Do Anything – Just Make Me Awesome
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Join Flex on His Quest to Be Cool
Like most middle schoolers, Flex's mind is on a million different things—school, sports, friends, girls (of course), and yeah, he's thinking about God too. More than any of these thoughts, Flex is obsessed with one thing—being cool.
But how can Flex...
Don't Call It a Comeback (Foreword by D. A. Carson): The Old Faith for a New Day
The Old Faith for a New Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Recent cultural interest in evangelicalism has led to considerable confusion about what the term actually means. Many young Christians are tempted to discard the label altogether. But evangelicalism is not merely a political movement in decline or a sociological phenomenon on the rise, as it has sometimes...
The Reason For Sports
A Christian Fanifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
There are books on how to worship God with our marriages, our money, and our sex lives. Books on how to “think biblically” about movies, television, and the arts. Books on how to vote Christianly and how not to vote Christianly. But there is little thoughtful, Christ-centered writing on the subject...
Facing Tyson
Fifteen Fighters, Fifteen Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
A ring-level view on what is was like to face boxing's most notorious and brutal fighters.
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