Welcome to PIVOT!

Authors contributing to PIVOT are professionals from various health and human movement disciplines- health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport.  It is our intention to present you with timely issues related to the joy of human movement, the perplexities of our bodily limitations, and what it means to be created in the image of God.  Our interests range across a wide spectrum, from disordered eating, to sport and civic engagement, to the integration of faith and learning in the human movement classroom, to the Christian mandate to be good stewards of all God’s world, including our own bodies.  We are interested in issues of healthy and active aging in a culture that worships youth, the co-curricular nature of sport in Christian liberal arts settings, and how the triumvirate mind-body-spirit health model might be better served by the addition of a fourth component- that of an environmental land ethic that ties all of creation together for the sake of community and future. 

As Christian college professors, we too struggle with issues of work-leisure-spirit balance in our own lives.  How does God’s call to be diligently at work in His kingdom, and to not weary in doing good create inherent tension when we feel the urgency of our own need to be still and know God? 

We have titled this weblog PIVOT because we will intentionally address those pressure points around which our lives turn as we ourselves train in godliness- and even as we train and mentor young people in our disciplines- that we may have the mind of Christ and heart and hands that are offered unconditionally to His service.