"Jason’s ability to come alongside and both support and challenge his students is a big part of why I was able succeed in graduate school and earn a PhD. From his skill in crafting a lecture that introduces you to a topic while defending a thesis to his friendly but no nonsense challenges to his students’ proposals, Jason helps his students understand the content of a class. But, more importantly, he provides an example of intellectual charity, honesty, courage, and humility. By giving the benefit of the doubt to opposing positions and those holding him, Jason teaches his students to understand before criticizing. And by facing the strengths and weaknesses of each view he considers with unflinching rigor, he shows his students how to be both brave in the face of objections and also humble and honest about our own limitations and weaknesses. I am forever grateful to Jason for teaching me these things by his example and hard work as my teacher and mentor."

"If you want to learn a consistent and time-tested approach to both philosophy and theology from a scholar who is also a revered teacher, look no further. The courses I took from Dr. Jason Reed fundamentally changed my understanding of God, while reinforcing the foundations of my faith and daily worship. Reed understands that the goal of Christian education is not merely the mastery of an abstract body of knowledge, but a life of love and wonder that unites us with a Person (indeed, a three-personed Trinity) who is more beautiful and formidable than we could ever imagine."

"I was a full time college student for the better part of twelve years, which culminated in a pair of master’s degrees and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Illinois. As such, I have been influenced by dozens of remarkable instructors – experts in their respective fields who, to this day, leave me with a sense of imposter syndrome when I reflect on both their genius and their individual commitments to my academic training. Among this throng of wonderful, professional influencers, there is one person who stands out as having had the greatest single impact on the way that I have tried to both learn and teach philosophy, Dr. Jason Reed. Professor Reed’s influence on me was not merely a matter of conveying complex ideas in an understandable manner according to my mind’s capability of receiving them (though he did this incredibly well because he took the time to know who I was a student). His influence transcended that because, by example, he taught me how to love philosophy and how to be enamored by the beauty of abstract human creativity. When I think of his classes, I can still sense the rush of endorphins that seemingly overcame him when he was able to successfully explain the nuances of Aristotelian metaphysics to those of us in his classroom! He drew more joy out of helping his students to see intelligible connections than any other instructor I’ve ever had. This is why I hold him in such high regard and why I would highly suggest that anyone with an opportunity to be mentored under his wing should rush to find a seat front and center to whatever lectern he’s occupying. Professor Reed continues to be the model of both philosopher and educator that I attempt to imitate today, twelve years after beginning my own career as an instructor of philosophy."