There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. - Alan Hirsch

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

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.

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.