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.

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

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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

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.