Sunday September 30 is the birthday of Ta-Nehisi Coates — one of the greatest living writers of essays and nonfiction!
Whether you love or loathe his work, it’s hard to argue that he is one of the most thought-provoking essayists writing today. His atheistic naturalism, for instance, challenges us as Christians to take the Incarnation, and our bodies, more seriously.
In honor of his birthday, we offer the following list of eight of the finest Ta-Nehisi Coates essays from THE ATLANTIC!
Pro Football and Understanding the Sanctity of the Body
Published: September 16, 2014
The crisis around head injuries—or rather the NFL’s nonchalance about head injury—forced me out of the game. But since I’ve been gone, I’ve grown sensitive about the body in ways that I wasn’t before. Only now has it begun to occur to me that a torn ACL is not merely an abstract that will keep my favorite player off of the field, but a part of the human body that has been damaged. That damage will likely haunt that particular human body long past its playing days.
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