Kepha

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Location United States
Introduction The blogger is a middle-aged American currently employed in teaching world history and global issues. He has also taught US history, government, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and Chinese language. His moonlight occupation is Chinese-English document translation, editing translations from English into Chinese, and other "word work". He is married, with two sons,a daughter-in-law, and a grand-daughter. He also is a confessing Protestant Christian unashamed of the Evangelical label. His major interests include the interplay of religion and culture.
Interests Art, religion, politics
Favorite Music The blogger is what Carl Haas, who formerly was announcer on the Washington area's Good Music Station, used to call a "Renaissance Rascal". The French metrical Psalms are beautiful, as is much Protestant ecclesiastical music prior to 1800.
Favorite Books I have read much of the Old Testament and New Testament in the original languages. Recently, I managed to plough through Lao Zi in Chinese (I admit I cheated a little: the text I used was a Taiwanese school text that included vocabularies and a modern Chinese paraphrase alongside the original Classical Chinese). I prefer history to fiction. Christian authors whom I read tend to have been dead for quite a while now; although there are some contemporary theologians whom I consult. Come to think of it, my most recently read Christian authors are John Calvin, Huldreich Zwingli, Thomas Watson (17th century English Puritan divine), and the Apostolic Fathers (Ignatius, Clement of Rome, Polycarp, pseudo-Barnabas, and the surviving fragments of Papias. I also confess a sneaking fondness for Stephen King.