{"id":3685,"date":"2011-06-29T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:38:30","slug":"sally-quinn-tim-tebow-on-jesus-football-and-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/06\/sally-quinn-tim-tebow-on-jesus-football-and-dating","title":{"rendered":"Sally Quinn: Tim Tebow on Jesus, football and dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s attractive when girls have faith,&#8221; says Tim Tebow, a deeply committed Christian\u00a0who is\u00a0not afraid to say so &#8212;\u00a0which he does in his new book, <em>Through My Eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim Tebow is the real deal, writes the <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s Sally Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In case you have been living on another planet, he is the 23-year-old superstar Heisman trophy winning football player for the Denver Broncos. And he&#8217;s drop-dead gorgeous,&#8221; she writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tebow has been written about a lot and is now on a wild book tour, doing TV, radio and print interviews all over the country. During a recent phone interview with Quinn, he talked about \u201cGod\u2019s plan\u201d for his life, his upbringing, hardships, winning and losing, football and, not least of all, women and sex.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Tebow sees God\u2019s plan for him as \u201cbeing a good role model for kids through football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not a chaplain or a priest or working in a ministry\u201d he says, but you are \u201cmaking a difference in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/post\/tim-tebow-on-jesus-football-and-dating-its-attractive-when-girls-have-faith\/2011\/06\/28\/AG901QpH_blog.html\">CLICK HERE to read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s attractive when girls have faith,&#8221; says Tim Tebow, a deeply committed Christian\u00a0who is\u00a0not afraid to say so &#8212;\u00a0which he does in his new book, Through My Eyes. 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