Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Writing, authoring, publishing: Grass Roots Theology, Poetry, History, Biography, Languages and Philology, Numismatics, Religion and Culture.
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	Then to all He said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of Mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow Me.’ [Luke 9:23]
Interests	People, Nature, Music, Art, Literature, Architecture, Languages, Cultures, History, Theology, Discipleship, God
Favorite movies	Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospel of John, The Apocalypse, Moses, Joseph, 300, Agora, Brother Sun Sister Moon, The Mission, Luther, Chariots of Fire, Leo, The Hiding Place, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, End of the Spear, Seven Pounds, The Fountain, Harvey, Babette's Feast, The Little Kidnappers, My Family and Other Animals, Fateless, Ushpizin, Ostrov, Andrei Rublev, Kurosawa, Red Cliff, The Last Emperor, Musa, Tae Guk Gi, The Matrix, Tron, Watership Down, The Red Violin, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Favorite music	Greek Byzantine Chant, Ethiopian Orthodox, Old Protestant Hymns, The Call, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, The Incredible String Band, Symphonies, Gospel, Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish, Uzbek,Yiddish, Greek, Chinese Classical (except Opera), Ragas (India), Gamelan (Indonesia), Folk, Reggae
Favorite books	Jerusalem Bible (1966), Greek New Testament, Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoeffer), everything by C. S. Lewis, Light in the Darkness (Fudel), Wounded by Love (Porphyrios), Ascetic of Love (Mother Gavrilia), That Man Is You (Evely), Leaves of Grass (Whitman), Hymn of Entry (Vasileios), The Philokalia, Way of a Pilgrim, God's Fool (Greene), The Desert Fathers, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Beginning to Pray (Blum), Pensées (Pascal), Pirke Avot (Judah Goldin), Tehillim (Hebrew Book of Psalms), Mahabharata (Bill Buck), Gitanjali (Tagore)

When you've got water stuck in your ear, how do you get it out?

The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back. [Isaiah 50:5 NIV]