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

“. . . 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’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.”

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

“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.”