Rowling's popular series, matches are held on circular fields with teams of seven. "From the first moment I played Quidditch I loved it," said Benepe, who now lives in New York. Because they have to keep hold of their broomsticks, they must catch and pass the ball one-handed. While quidditch players in the Harry Potter series fly around a field on broomsticks, the non-magical "muggles" like Benepe run around the field with a broomstick between their legs. It's more in the league of ultimate frisbee, another sport that emerged from the free-wheeling style of non-varsity athletes and has spread throughout the country. Quidditch hardly looks like the serious business of college football. It's real enough for the schools that college recruiters citing their attractions now routinely mention that they have a quidditch team. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to is even a push for the NCAA, the arbiter of college sports, to sanction quidditch as, well, a real sport. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15.
We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
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