Eldredge's book Waking the Dead and the video series Wild at Heart: A Band of Brothers (both 2003) present the wilder Eldredge: Salt-and-pepper hair now flows past his collar, and he wears a moustache and Vandyke beard. One stray bit of hair on his forehead hints that a wild man wants to bust out. Standing amid the red sandstone bluffs at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, looking like he's pausing from a vigorous hike, Eldredge wears an improbable light blue dress shirt with a button-down collar.

Crisp to the man Eldredge is becoming, begin with the dust-jacket photo on his most popular book, Wild at Heart (2001). And in describing the Holy Spirit, Eldredge favors a phrase from the mystics of Iona: He is the Wild Goose, always ready to lead us into uncharted and exhilarating territory. Lewis's untamed lion, one who would infuriate enough people to get himself crucified. When describing God, Eldredge often quotes the adjectives favored by biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann: 'wild, dangerous, unfettered, and free.' When speaking of Jesus, Eldredge describes a vigorous man of action, C. He believes that men, as creatures made in God's image, have a God-given heart for adventure-usually starting with adventures in the outdoors, but working up to the adventure of loving a woman, even when she's furious, and the ultimate adventure of trusting God on uncertain paths. Eldredge prefers wilderness to office space and risky adventures to living-room couches.

Today Eldredge would rather emulate William Wallace, the sword-brandishing hero of Mel Gibson's film Braveheart, or Maximus, the single-minded warrior of Gladiator. Stasi gave his alter ego a playfully derisive nickname: Mr. During those years, Stasi Eldredge says, her husband told laundries to load his shirts with extra starch. He would answer the phone in his 'work voice': blunt, tense, and in charge.

When author John Eldredge lived like millions of other white-collar Americans, his wife dreaded calling him at the office.

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