S11E09 | Talk About a Front-Row Seat! Phil Price
November 25, 2025
Athletics as ministry offers a great “classroom” with many teachable moments, as you will hear in this episode with guest Phil Price, MBU faculty member and assistant basketball coach. He claims to have had a “front-row seat,” spending all but seven years of his life on a Christian campus. Growing up shadowing his coaching father and later playing in multiple sports, he cherishes the personal privilege of having been mentored by Godly men. Among various topics, he and host Dr. Matt Davis review his sports involvement, the “relationship of math as a discipline and the concept of truth as a reality,” lessons of grace learned from a bicuspid aortic valve and death of his father, and transition into the role of “old guy” and mentor of a younger generation.
About our guest
Phil Price, an associate professor at Maranatha, teaches math and serves as assistant basketball coach. For 30 years he held the record as Maranatha’s baseball homerun leader, a record broken only recently. An MBU alumnus and son of MBU faculty members, Phil served as a Christian school teacher before joining Maranatha faculty. His wife Kathleen and married son continue the alumni theme. Two other sons currently attend Maranatha.
