Biblical Studies; NT Textual Studies; Writing; Fine-Art and Documentary Photography; Poetry; Short Stories; the writings of Fydor Dostoyevsky; Ernest Hemingway; William Faulkner; William Shakespeare; Henry James; Frederick Neitzsche; Karl Marx; Joseph Conrad; Jane Austen; George Eliot; Ivan Turgenev; D. H. Lawarence; Thomas Hardy; Mark Twain; Plato; American History.
Music
Mozart; Beethoven; Christian hymns; the Beatles; the Rolling Stones; Credence Clearwater Revival; Jim Morrison and the Doors; Keith Green;
Movies
The Raging Bull; Schindler's List; The Misfits; The Executioner's Song; Five Easy Pieces; I Never Sing For My Father;
Television
Fox News; Dodger Baseball; AMC.
Books
The Bible; Brother's Karamazov; War and Peace; Vanity Fair; The French Lt.'s Woman; Gravity's Rainbow; .V; The Trial; Tess of the d'Urbervilles; The Coiners; Strait Is the Gate; The Great Books of Western Civilization.
Heroes
Jesus Christ; Moses; Paul the Apostle; Ellen G. White; James White; Joseph Bates; William Miller; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Jefferson; Robert E. Lee; Stonewall Jackson; Ulyssus S. Grant; Theodore Roosevelt; General Nathan Bedford Forrest; Jeb Stuart; Gen. George Patton; George W. Bush; Rush Limbaugh.