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.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.