Paul Putz
Dr. Paul Putz is the Director of the Faith & Sports Institute at Baylor's Truett Theological Seminary. In addition to his career as a historian and educator, Putz is the author of Spirit of the Game: American Christianity and Big-Time Sports, published in 2024, and he currently has another book, Jesus and James Naismith: The Christian History of Basketball and its Lessons for the Church Today, in the works to be published in early 2027.
Putz is from Nebraska, but briefly had ties to the central Pennsylvania region when he worked at Messiah University from 2018-2019.