

We got about three months into those phone calls, and I asked, Sam, your friends, guys you hang with, have anybody that they can talk to about this stuff? He didn’t even pause. Then entered a girl and understanding and working through love, romance, the feminine heart, decision-making, faith in God, bringing justice to the world, all those things that millennials care about and are asking questions about.

About a year out of college, we started these Wednesday night phone calls because he was in the deep end of the pool and taking on water-work and money versus following your dreams and your passions. My son, Sam, is an English major, graduated, wanted to be a writer.

We had this conversation in the studio of Ransomed Heart Ministries, the ministry Eldredge leads in Colorado Springs, Colo. His latest book is Killing Lions, a guide to young men that he co-wrote with his son, Sam. That 2001 book has now sold nearly 5,000,000 copies. John Eldredge served for 12 years on the staff of Focus on the Family before releasing a book that became a publishing phenomenon, Wild at Heart.
