frphillip
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired Episcopal priest |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | I'm 76 now, and have been retired for 14 years. I love singing in the Bach Cantata Choir of Portland and am looking forward to our tour of East German, to Bach's venues, in 2018. I am an Episcopal priest, doing lots of supply work, but enjoy just going to church at Trinity Cathedral, where the music is excellent, preaching, liturgy, and social ministries are top-notch. I volunteer there in the bookstore and a food pantry that serves the poor. |
| Interests | Music (mainly singing in groups); family (four grandsons who keep me young);working in my yard; working-out at gym; travel; reading, both novels/mysteries and non-fiction (biographies, e.g.) |
| Favorite Movies | LaVera, my wife, and I rarely to to movies, but I'd love to see something one day. I always read the reviews in the Friday paper and dream. Perhaps we can catch re-runs. We did manage to see "Dunkirk" and want to see the four women in "Book Club." We've watched some films on TV, like "Forrest Gump, " a real tear-jerker and very, very poignant! We're dull, I suppose, but public TV is our entertainment outlet. |
| Favorite Music | I'd fill a book! Well, anything by Bach, or Brahms, or Britten or Barber, with Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Parry, thrown in. Maybe Bach's 5th Brandenburg for all-time fave? |
| Favorite Books | I've read a lot of non-fiction lately (this is December, 2016), one a biography of LaVera's old boss at Bethel College, the late Winfield Fretz. He was one in a million and his daughter did a great job in putting together this memoir. I'm enjoying now a novel by Alan Hollinghurst, and thoroughly enjoyed his "Line of Beauty" awhile back. I'm trying to get into a friend's serious, academic study of money and power in the Episcopal Church and will do that soon. An update (as of 31 May 2018): that book is currently being reviewed by a friend for The Historiographer, the quarterly publication of the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists (NEHA) of which I'm the Book Editor. I'm sure my friend will do a great review; I was surprised that she said yes to my request. I'm also currently reviewing a book on House of the Redeemer, in NYC, where I stayed last summer for the NEHA conference. Also, another book by one of my favorites, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, "Called, " a collection of her talks to newly ordained priests. |
The ongoing thing right now, given our weird political situation is, how do we do more than simply "survive" the current presidential administration? This requires our fullest attention to insure that all the good that has been wrought in civil rights, women's rights, environmental progress, etc. is not destroyed or altered beyond recognition!