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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the notion of "muscular Christianity" which the school promotes.[/quote]

Is this for real?  I find this creepy (after reading the Wikipedia entry).  Can any other STA parents comment on this?  [/quote]

Not creepy at all.  They refer to it throughout their website.

Attached is an interesting article which also touches on this idea.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2000/08/st_albans_school.single.html
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I think the "muscular christianity" concept is actually a little bit dated.  From what I saw on the website, the references to it are in the past tense, as being a part of St. Albans of yore.

It is true that athletics are an important piece of the school, but for the same reasons (physical health, learning lessons about being part of a team, social benefits, building community) that pretty much any school that has an athletic program cites.

Nor is the chapel program some sort of Christian proselytizing medium.  St. Albans hasn't run away from its identity as an Episcopal school -- the chaplain is an ordained Episcopal minister and there are hymns and the Lord's Prayer in every chapel service -- but the homilies are most often given by students or faculty talking about what is important to them morally and spiritually.  Sometimes that is religious faith (and students of all faiths give chapel homilies), but very often it is a broader discussion of ethics without a religious message.[/quote]

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