“I really hope that the footprints that mark out [my] path are filling up with clear water that reflects a little bit of sky.”

“[In theater], we get to show beautiful, wonderful aspects of who [God] is in a very unique and exciting way.”

“I think poetry is a way of seeing. . . . It’s a way of searching for God in all things.”

“In society, we call [people] ‘marginalized’ for a reason: because we tend to not notice them.”

“I truly believe that one transformed man can transform many things and shine the light of Christ where he is.”

“We see throughout Paul’s writings . . . this idea of paradox.”

“. . . God is love, and God is in our experience . . . He can be found . . . we can become a people of love in a loveless age.”

“. . . At the heart of the gospel . . . we’re invited into another kind of life to become the person that really God wants us to be.“

“I very much believe that poetry is . . . a confrontation with reality, that literature . . . has very much to do with your life.”

“What literary apologetics is really about is harnessing the power of the imagination to make ideas meaningful so that the intellect can properly grasp them.”

“. . . When we get reality wrong, it hurts us.”

“I’m excited that, in this season of life, my relationship with God has been more vibrant than it’s ever been.”

“. . . [Spiritual practices] provide you a way of changing in a way that you can’t change by simply willing yourself to change.”

“. . . Ultimately, I think poetry trains us for experience with God.”

“I write because I want to search for truth.  I want to engage with it.  I want to grow as a person.“

“. . . Moses, very frequently, describes the Law as showing people how they can flourish.”

“Ideas matter. Ideas have consequences.”

“[Communism] treats people as simply economic creatures that are only interested in material goods.”

“It gets better, and it gets worse, but it’s always changing.”

“God will defeat evil in its entirety without violating human freedom.”