Chris Vicious
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I Really Wish I Was A Pirate
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37 years old
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
United States
Last Login: 1/13/2009
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| General | The P.Kitty, travel, GOOOOOOD wine, college football, killer tunes, and then I guess I'd have to say eye-patches, rum (with a splash of grape pop), peg-legs, and all other pirate-gear | | Music | Counting Crows, Eve (don't be mad Graeve), Green Day, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, Leela James, Norah Jones, Kings of Convenience, the Killers, Ray LaMontange, Amos Lee, John Legend, Bob Marley, Matisyahu, Over The Rhine, Damien Rice, Lionel Richie (seriously), M.I.A., Mike Roe, Nina Simone, U2, The Violet Burning, Weezer | | Movies | Amelie, Billy Madison, The Blues Brothers, Cinema Paradiso, Hitch, Il Postino, Malcolm X, The Mission, Sad Movie (Korean), Sandlot, Say Anything, School of Rock, Serendipity, Star Wars (the ORIGINAL trilogy), A Time for Burning, The Untouchables | | Television | 30 Days, Lost, the Office, That's So Raven | | Books | Okay, seriously… this was hard to narrow my favorite reads down to a list of 100. But as of 4:40 p.m. on 08-14-06 these are my top 100 (alphabetical by author's last name of course) with as few author-repeats as possible (that was the hardest part).
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart;
Richard Adams, Watership Down;
Mortimer Arias, Announcing the Reign of God: Evangelization and the Subversive Memory of Jesus;
Anthony Arnove and Ali Abunimah (Editors), Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War;
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections;
Leonardo and Clovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology;
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together;
Jonathon Bonk, Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem;
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West;
Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination;
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything;
Pearl Buck, The Good Earth;
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces;
Albert Camus, The Outsider;
Raniero Cantalamessa, Poverty;
Willa Cather, My Antonia;
Jayakumar Christian, God of the Empty-Handed: Poverty, Power, and the Kingdom of God;
Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical;
Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma;
A.J. Cronin, The Judas Tree;
David B. Currie, Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic;
Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach;
Hernando De Soto, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World;
Marie Dennis with Renny Golden and Scott Wright, Oscar Romero: Reflections on His Life and Writings;
Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave;
Shusaku Endo, Silence;
Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey;
Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi;
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed;
Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World;
Theodor S. Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), Hands, Hands, Finger Thumb;
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet;
Langdon Gilkey, Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure;
Gill, Robin A Textbook of Christian Ethics
Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table;
John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me;
Viv Grigg, Companion to the Poor;
Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America;
Gustavo Gutierrez, The Power of the Poor in History: Selected Writings;
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time;
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea;
Abraham Heschel, The Prophets;
Thomas Keating, The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation;
Martin Luther King Jr., Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.;
David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World;
Dominique Lapierre, The City of Joy;
Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem!;
Karen Lebaqz, Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives From Philosophical and Theological Ethics;
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mocking Bird;
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity;
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce;
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces;
Mario Vargas Llosa, The War at the End of the World;
Yann Martel, Life of Pi;
Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century;
Johnnes Baptist Metz, Poverty of Spirit;
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance;
Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology;
Mother Teresa Total Surrender
Malcolm Muggeridge, Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta;
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God;
Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life;
Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theory of Missions;
Henri J.M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership;
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four;
Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture;
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, The Big Orange Splot;
Jackie Pullinger, Chasing the Dragon;
Chris Rice, Grace Matters: A Memoir of Faith, Friendship, and Hope in the Heart of the South;
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa;
Oscar Romero, The Violence of Love: The Pastoral Wisdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero;
Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice;
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children;
Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince;
Jose Saramago, Blindness;
Franky Schaeffer, Bad News for Modern Man: An Agenda for Christian Activism;
Basilea Schlink, Behold His Love;
Herbert Schlossberg with Vinay Samuel, Ronald J. Sider, Christianity and Economics in the Post-Cold War Era: The Oxford Declaration and Beyond;
Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom;
Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in and Age of Hunger;
Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree;
Jon Sobrino, The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross;
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago;
John Steinbeck, The Pearl;
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit;
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God;
Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh;
Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy;
Jean Vanier, The Broken Body: Journey to Wholeness;
Jean Vanier, From Brokenness to Community;
Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation;
Elie Wiesel, Night;
Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness;
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince;
WMF Community The Cry For Justice (Unpublished Manuscript)
Malcom X The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told To Alex Haley
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew;
W.B. Yeats, Collected Poems;
John Yoder, The Politics of Jesus: Victi Agnus Noster;
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States of America: 1492-Present
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Chris Vicious's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | O-Town | | Body type: | More to love! | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Occupation: | Pirate-in-Training |
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Chris Vicious's Schools
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Asbury College
Wilmore, KY
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Double Major in Biblical Studies and Missiology
Minor: Ancient Biblical Languages
Clubs: Instituted the Annual "52-Hour No Chick Film Fest" (it ran for 11 years).
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