Membership in USA Archery has gone up 20 percent and may rise even higher. It's an interesting development for a sport that usually gets little coverage in the media.

Archery store owners are also being barraged by interested new clients and their parents. Archery appeals to women because it's more about skill than sheer strength, and both men and women can compete together (Olivia Fleming, "Take a Bow (And Arrow): How The Hunger Games, Snow White and Now Disney's Brave Has Sparked Soaring Demand For Archery Lessons," DailyMail.com, June 21, 2012).

There are many references to archery in the Bible—this having been a way to hunt animals and fight enemies in the ancient world. And aiming to hit a target was used metaphorically. Biblical Hebrew and Greek terms for sin have the sense of missing the mark.