Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Road with Ted Lasso: Considering Our Spiritual Journey with a Coach, a
Team, and a City
PART ONE: ON THE ROAD
Chapter One: Nate 'the Great' and the Transforming Power of Love
Chapter Two: Ted Lasso and Lament
Chapter Three: I Believe in BELIEVE, I Trust in TRUST: Why Ted Lasso, Christianity, and All Relationships are about Trust
Chapter Four: Ted, Trauma, Truth, and Transition
Chapter Five: Ted Lasso and The Great Commandment
PART TWO: THE LASSO WAY
Chapter Six: Hounding Down Virtue: Tracing the Transformation of Jamie Tartt and the
Greyhounds through Ted Lasso's Prophetic Ministry
Chapter Seven: Ain't No One in this Room Alone: COVID-19, Grief, and the Anonymous
Chaplaincy of Ted Lasso
Chapter Eight: Lasso[ing] New Masculinities: Ted Lasso, Disrupted/Transformed
Masculinities, and the Church
Chapter Nine: Don't Fight Back, Fight Forward: The Everyday Peacemaking of Ted Lasso
Chapter Ten: Darts, Curiosity, & Non-Judgment: A Ted Lasso Parable
Chapter Eleven: Exilic Patterns and Character Transformation in Ted Lasso
Chapter Twelve: It's The Hope That Kills Ya: Ted Lasso on Liberative Ideas and Hope-Filled
Destinies
Final Reflection: Change We Can Believe In: The Unlikely Common Ground between
Pelagius, Augustine, and Ted Lasso
Index
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