Playing for God Rachel Lipson Physically active children experience healthier

Physically active children experience healthier growth and development

Concrete examples support the goal of teaching college and career ready standards across content areas

All chapters now discuss assessment in the context of multi-tiered systems of support

Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse

The book is written for general interest and academic audiences

Playing for God Rachel Lipson Physically active children experience healthierWhen sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too," reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it