When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

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.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.