Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

More data is not always the answer.

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.

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

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.