Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

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.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'