There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.