Equal on the Court, Equal in Christ

On September 20, 1973, more than 30,000 spectators packed the Houston Astrodome for a tennis match that carried the weight of something far bigger than sport. Billie Jean King, the twenty-nine-year-old reigning Wimbledon champion, faced Bobby Riggs, a fifty-five-year-old former champion who had spent months publicly declaring that women's tennis was inferior. Riggs had already defeated Margaret Court in a lopsided match on Mother's Day that spring, and his taunting had only grown louder.…