An Olympic Challenge in GB

John Stevens has some excellent reflections on the Olympic Games here: 

Closing Reflections: The Olympic Gospel Challenge in Britain

To whet your appetite, his main points are:

1. We have no answer to the problem of death 

2. We have an inconsistent attitude to elitism and equality 

3. We have excluded religion from public life and pushed it into the private sphere 

4. We are bound to be disillusioned because the Olympics are not going to transform Britain

5. We see the irrationality of secular humanism 

6. We face an immense gospel challenge