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

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

“It’s [the Christian philosophical renaissance] one of the great stories of Christian academia in the twentieth century.”

“I think good writing is good thinking.”

“I want people to be taken to a dark place [in literature] so the light of Christ shines brighter.”

“The pieces in Ekstasis . . . [are] definitely capturing those moments of magic and glory that we sometimes forget are inherent in life with Christ.”

“In many ways, John answers Job. . . . Different books of the Bible exist in conversations with each other in different ways.”

“[Poetry and stories] speak to people at a deeper level than just laying down rules or just straight talk.”

“I found I had a growing interest in the aesthetic goodness of faith.”

“The short answer [to why we should care about art] is beauty, goodness, and truth.”