In the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell, a conservative Scottish Presbyterian, refused to run a race on a Sunday during the 1924 Olympics. Instead, he ran a race on a weekday that he was not expected to win and won.[1] It turns out that I have something of an Eric Liddell in my own family, not a runner, but an Anglican priest who became a congregationalist clergyman, a Puritan. He’s the only eleventh great-grandfather whose name, John Lothrop, that I know.
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