A March 11, 2010, Los Angeles Times story says Christian conservatives are trying to align themselves with Tea Party libertarians on the issues of small government and religious freedom.

Read an April 6, 2010, column at Christianity Today by Charles Colson. He accuses the Tea Party movement of having no governing philosophy.

Read an April 5, 2010, column by R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a leading voice for Christian conservatism, rejecting suggestions of a “tax revolt” like that advocated by some conservatives and Tea Party supporters.

Read a March 12, 2010, story at Politico.com in which Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said he consider Tea Party supporters “additional allies and fellow travelers.”

Read “The religion of football,” a June 4, 2010, post at CNN’s Belief Blog about the parallels one author sees between his religion and his passion for soccer.

Read a May 27, 2010, column at the Huffington Post by Jim Wallis of Sojourners, a leader of the religious left.

Another is a June 10, 2010, piece at The Huffington Post, “Love and Devotion: The World Cup and the ‘Religion’ of Soccer,” by Bradley B. Onishi, a doctoral candidate in the religious studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Read a June 7, 2010, blog post at Beliefnet.com by Mark Silk, Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College about whether or not Christianity and the Tea Party are compatible.

One of those stories is a June 11, 2010, item from Baptist Press’ sports pages about evangelicals using the World Cup spotlight to witness to their faith.