(I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where “my dad’s hermeneutic can beat up your dad’s hermeneutic” served as legit schoolyard banter.)

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

Love is a dance.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.