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Tod Lindberg, The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern (Encounter Books, 2015) My friend Tod Lindberg has written an interesting and important book on the changing nature of heroism. I disagree ...

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Arthur Ashe’s famous quote on heroism and service continues to resonate in an age shaped by burnout, ambition and personal ...

Although it is good to honor heroes in uniform it would be good to remember the uniformity of heroism itself. Heroism is the same in all ages because, in essence, it is synonymous with holiness. A ...

“They think I’m some kind of damned hero,” the young veteran, a former airman, said in a hushed tone while ducking his head and quickly glancing behind him. His voice and body language communicated ...

On August 5, when a gunman drove to a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee and started shooting his 9mm handgun, some ran and some leapt to stop him. One of the six who died was temple president Santwat ...

Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers is an adaptation of James Bradley and Ron Powers’s book, recounting the story of the three survivors of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. The ...

Are heroes real, or are they simply stories we tell ourselves? Either heroes are objectively real—brave people who perform extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice—or heroism is merely in our heads ...

The students signed pledges to learn every day and graduate with empowerment. The pledges go inside a time capsule that will ...