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.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.