Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.