Kinesiology has a long and storied tradition and history. The growth of our discipline and what might be called our subdisciplines has been the shining achievement of the 1970-2006 era, spurred on by Henry's (1964) call for an academic discipline. In this short thought paper, we argue that we have lost sight of the discipline in a quest to become socially relevant. This social relevance has been to get on the exercise as prescription bandwagon, which has produced a wide chasm between our undergraduate curriculum and our research endeavors. The reason for this chasm is that kinesiology does not have an agreed upon central theme, what we call a dogma. We argue that we need to return to make skill and physical activity the central dogma of kinesiology and to make a new coherent curriculum for undergraduate kinesiology. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)