Being a husband and father. Reading & writing. Playing music. Watching movies. Listening to radio dramas.
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Music
Kansas, Kerry Livgren, Proto-Kaw, Bach, Luther, Tannahill Weavers, Nickel Creek, AD, Michael Card, John Michael Talbot, Handel, Kemper Crabb, Bad English, Damn Yankees, Foreigner, Lou Gramm, Iona, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Creed, David Ragsdale, Steve Walsh, Rush, White Heart, Kate Rusby, Petra, Maire Brennan, Clannad, Harvest, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Randy Stonehill, The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos, Mark Heard, Marty McCall, Vivaldi, Jamie Soles.
Movies
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Braveheart, Lonesome Dove, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scrooge, The Adventures of Robin Hood, We're No Angels, Arsenic and Old Lace, O Brother Where Art Thou? Angels With Dirty Faces, Hound of the Baskervilles (Rathbone & Bruce), Luther (Joseph Fiennes), Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), Amazing Grace.
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Television
There is one show we watch, when we have time to catch it: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Fun to watch with the kids. Other than that, None. Don't watch it. Hate it. Think it's an utter waste of time. Rather have a tarantula lay eggs in my ear than watch it. As Shakespeare might say, are you answered? Wait, I forgot to mention that I especially detest the infelicitously named 'Reality Shows' and (forgive me) think people who follow them cement heads. Especially American Idol. Still, some of the old shows are great (one thinks of The Andy Griffith Show), and I could probably be a History Channel Addict if I let myself, but it's hard enough to find reading time, so why waste time in front of the Idiot Box?
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Books
Holy Scripture; Beowulf; The Father Brown Omnibus (G.K. Chesterton); The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton); The Ballad of the White Horse (G.K. Chesterton); Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton); The Everlasting Man (G.K. Chesterton); The Nine Tailors (Dorothy L. Sayers); Zeal of Thy House (Dorothy L. Sayers); The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis); That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis); The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien); The Hobbit (J.R.R.Tolkien); The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (J.R.R. Tolkien); Leave it to Psmith (P.G. Wodehouse); Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse); War in Heaven (Charles Williams); Angels in the Architecture (Douglas Wilson and Douglas Jones); Against Christianity (Peter Leithart);
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About me:
Husband of the beautiful and capable Angela, father of four merry little nobles-in-training: Grace, William, Nathanael, and Abigail. Author of two books: Polycarp: the Crown of Fire (available in English and Turkish), and Talking of Dragons: the Children's Books of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, as well as a number of published articles. Contributer to Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present, published by Veritas. Son to the greatest parents of at least the past Millennium (Sonny and Patsy). Brother to Chris, and Sean, who have also managed to be my best friends over the years, and Brittany, a wonderful little sister who came along some years later, just when we were getting tired of so many boys and wishing for a little girl. Adjectives that might plausibly be applied to me include: Reformed, Catholic, Calvinist, Postmillennial, Paleo-conservative, Paleo-confederate, minarchist, Puritan, Chestertonian, Constantinian, paedobaptist, paedocommunionist, Lutheran. What I believe in: Jesus of Nazareth, Absolute Truth, Holy Scripture, Christendom. What I don't believe in: Atheists, Agnostics, Modernists, Post-modernists.
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Who I'd like to meet: In no particular order, and to name only a few: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert E. Lee, Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, William Wallace, Stonewall Jackson, St Athanasius, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Abraham, St Peter, George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Calhoun, Thomas Jefferson, J.S. Bach, Daniel Boone, George Mason.
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Und er hat zu mir gesagt: Lass dir an meiner Gnade genuegen; denn meine Kraft ist in den Schwachen maechtig. Darum will ich mich am allerliebsten ruehmen meiner Schwachheit, auf dass die Kraft Christi bei mir wohne.
2 Korinther 12:9
