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

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

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

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

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

“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.”