I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. The thing I've chosen is my faith. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long I as I can with whatever I have to make a difference. - Jimmy Carter
Male
50 years old
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
United States
American history;
care for God's creation;
refuse, reduce, reuse, or recycle;
end extreme poverty; passionately promote
peace and justice; ethical investing (e.g., Calvert or Mennonite Mutual Aid);
fair trade coffee and tea; human traffic-free chocolate;
grass-fed, free range/cage free, locally grown nutrition; eat less beef; conflict-free diamonds; green, clean, and high mileage vehicles (aim to drive at least at 42 mpg); stop human trafficking; end capital punishment; wood furniture certified as sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council; end the genocide in Darfur; increase use of solar and geothermal energy (push your utility companies to use at least 20% renewable energy); consume less animals and junk food and eat more plants; sunrises and sunsets at the beach; babbling brooks in the mountains; Myspace.
Music
Classic rock, late 60s through the 70s to the early 80s, the spirit of John Denver, the harmonies of CSN&Y, the talent of the first two decades of Chicago, the creativity of the Beatles, "Jesus music" from the early 70s such as Larry Norman, Ray Hildebrand, Love Song, the Pat Terry Group, etc.
classical, jazz, U2, some bluegrass and country,
some Christian rock such as Switchfoot. Musicals: Godspell, The Lion King.
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Movies
The Lion King,
The Breakfast Club,
The Wizard of Oz,
Forrest Gump,
Gandhi, Luther, A Hard Day's Night, Diary of a Mad Black Woman,
Casablanca, Tender Mercies,
It's A Wonderful Life,
Reds,
Rocky, The Karate Kid,
Citizen Kane,
Shoah, Schindler's List, Star Wars, The Return of the Jedi, Babe, Hoosiers, Silent Running, Walk the Line, Brother Son, Sister Moon,
Jesus of Nazareth, O Brother Where Art Thou, Gettysburg, Secondhand Lions, Ordinary Radicals, Silent Running, Evan Almighty.
Television
The News Hour with Jim Leher, Comment on Kentucky, NOW with David Brancaccio, Bill Moyers' Journal, Washington Week with Gwen Ifill, the McLaughlin Group; Sunrise Earth on Discovery HDTV; NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams; "the best political team on television" on CNN, Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, This Week with George Stephanopoulos; the Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the Rachel Maddow Show, the Ed Show. Date night shows with the wife might include House, Saving Grace, Survivor, the Amazing Race or Boston Legal, or we might flip between the Food Network and the Hallmark channel.
Radio shows: Whad'Ya Know with Michael Feldman, The World with Lisa Mullins, Fresh Air, On Point, Open Source with Christopher Lydon, All Things Considered, Speaking of Faith, Morning Edition, Bob Edwards Weekend. A great show that is on both TV and radio show is the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour, recorded in the Kentucky Theater in Lexington, KY. Oh yeah - and I love those commercials for Freecreditreport.com featuring those guys in the pirate hats.
Books
Anything by M. Scott Peck, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Barack Obama, Emil Brunner, Dr. Suess, Shel Silverstein, Eugene Peterson, John Ortberg, Daniel Goleman, Thomas Cahill, Philip Yancey, Rowan Williams, Richard Rohr, Brennan Manning, Harold Ivan Smith, C. S. Lewis, Brian McLaren, Thomas Merton, Pope John Paul II, Al Gore, Mother Teresa, Martin Buber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Og Mandino, Frederick Buechner, Teilhard de Chardin, Jim Palmer or Doris Kearns Goodwin. Classics such as The Odyssey by Homer, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Walden by Henry David Thoreau and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I like to occasionally improve my use of the English language by reading poetry such as Edgar Allan Poe aloud or reading some Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald. I like to listen to a deep, resonate voice reading aloud The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Stephen Covey has helped me with time management, Andrew Weil and Barry Sears with health, Byron Katie and the Tao te Ching to "go with the flow," and Ev Worthington on forgiveness. Books I'm often recommending: Senator John Danforth's Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together, Immaculee Ilibagiza's Left to Tell, Divine Nobodies by Jim Palmer, and The Shack by W. P. Young. I love Shane Claiborne's Irresistible Revolution, Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change and just about every book or article by Jim Wallis. Systematic Theology: Ethics by James William McClendon, Jr. is delightful. I'm a ravenous consumer of the news on the Internet: MSNBC, CNN, New York Times (I'd love to subscribe to their Sunday paper, and they have great online video reports), BBCNews, ABCNews, CBSNews, LATimes, SFGate, Chron.com, Washingtonpost.com, etc., as well as a perusal of blogs from the emergent/emerging church. I also love to watch the brilliant thinking going on with the TED videos on the Internet. The ultimate relaxation is to read old articles of Rolling Stone magazine.
Heroes
Jesus, Brian McLaren, Rich Mullins, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, Bono, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henri Nouwen, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Dr. J. W. MacGorman, Viktor Frankl, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Edwards, Wendell Berry, Reggie McNeil, Jim Smoke, Al Gore, Pat Summitt, John Wooden, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fredrick Douglass, George Washington's cabinet during his first term as President, Richard Cizik, T.R. for creating the National Parks, the oratory of F.D.R. and J.F.K., R.F.K. in '68, L.B.J.'s domestic agenda, R.F.K. Jr., Bill and Hillary for working on their marriage after his affair(s), Amy Grant during her Christian music heyday, 1977-1989, Ronald J. Sider, William Wilberforce, Martin E. Marty, Sojourner Truth, Bill Moyers, Michael Eric Dyson, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Fred Rogers, Bill and Lynne Hybels, Richard Foster, Mother Theresa, John Grisham, David Livingstone, Will Rogers, Woodie Guthrie, Frank Schaeffer, my wife, my kids, my Sunday School class, my divorce recovery leadership team, my single adult event leadership team, all those who shine a light of hope for others.
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City, TN
Graduated: 1981
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Religion/church music
Clubs: Baptist Student Union
About me: Relationship-oriented, hope-filled, joyful, loving, peaceful, persevering person with an eye on the big picture of God working in God's world.
Through God's healing in my life I point people toward healing through individual and couples counseling, single adult events, Bible studies, divorce recovery workshop, marriage enrichment, premarital education and grief support.
Four of our children have high school degrees by way of Tates Creek High School. One is a graduate of Lexington Community College and the University of Virginia, attending Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, and recently completed a class in South Africa about racial reconciliation. One is an alum of Mission Year in Atlanta and now cares for an individual with a debilitating disease. One works for the largest coffee house in the state and lives near the campus of Bluegrass Community and Technical College where she attends college. One followed the example of Lisa Simpson by playing saxophone at Tates Creek, and has a little coffee house experience himself. All of us are welcomed enthusiastically every time we walk in the door by a handsome German shepherd/husky (Oscar) and a beautiful Siberian husky (Kita).
My amazing wife, after experiencing God's healing in her life, worked at a law firm in the benefits department, then dedicated eight months of her life to stay home and take care of my sick dad. She and I work together to keep him in medication and doctor's visits.
Our lives flow often around the community known as Immanuel. Since we've experienced the healing of God in many ways, we want to share the light of hope with others. The Jesus of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is the focus of my faith. I want that Jesus to guide everything I do and enlighten all the people I touch, connecting all people to his love. The Paul who advocated a radical life of grace and Spirit, free from the Law, informs my approach to life and ministry. I want to consume and live every moment of my life mindfully for my own sake as well as for the well being of others. Life is a journey. Travel light. Trust the One who calls you.
Here's the Channel 18 interview I had with Lee Cruise on 1/14/08:
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Who I'd like to meet: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.; Julie Taymor; Thich Nhat Hanh; Barack and Michelle Obama, Nelson Mandela; John R. W. Stott, Rowan Williams, Desmond and Leah Tutu; Garrison Keillor, Bill Moyers, Walter Brueggemann, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson; Daniel and Tara-Bennett Goleman; Martha Raddatz, Fareed Zakaria; Rob Bell, Donald Miller, Tavis Smiley, John Ortberg, Kathleen Norris, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen, Becky Garrison, N. T. Wright, Jack and Meg White, Maria Hinojosa, Mika Brzezinski, Anderson Cooper, Michael Eric Dyson, Phyllis Tickle, Gwen Ifill, Bob Edwards, Richard Engel, Clark Howard, all my Myspace friends, and YOU. Where would I like to visit? Monastaries near the Cliffs of Moher (Ireland), a train ride (Alaska), Niagara Falls (Canadian side).
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Come
now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool. [Isaiah 1:18(KJV)]
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