You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved closer together, and this convergence coincided with greater institutional strength for all the Christian churches than, for the most part, you see today.

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.