But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.