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.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.