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Rachel P.

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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Student Teacher
Location	Lancaster, California, United States
Introduction	I'm writing my dissertation on saints' lives and looking forward to becoming an independent "grown-up." I've been in school for more than 10 years since I graduated high school, and while I appreciate the perks of having summers off and opportunities to learn about great literature, being poor and homeless is getting old. Don't know where I'll go next year, but I hope to teach modern American literature and Religion courses at the college level soon. I'm planning to travel around the world before I settle down anywhere, and I'll probably spend some time with my favorite people who live in CO Springs, Lexington, KY, Waco, TX, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston, and St. Louis.
Interests	Liberal and moderate politics, Mennonites and pacifism, Christianity and literature, interfaith dialogue, independent films, saints, hiking, Lady Bears basketball
Favorite Music	Wilco, The Decemberists, Carbon Leaf, Great Big Sea, Alison Krauss, Nora Jones, Jack Johnson, U2, Coldplay, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Garden State Soundtrack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, Neil Young, Enya, David Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Patty Griffin, Natalie Merchant, The Shins, Zero 7, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nickel Creek, John Butler, Iron & Wine, Black Eyed Peas, John Mayer, Lyle Lovett, Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews Band
Favorite Books	All saints' lives--especially books on/by St. Francis, St. Benedict, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Helena (Evelyn Waugh), St. Brendan (Frederick Buechner), and St. Julian the Hospitaller (Walter Wangerin), Brothers K (the original by Dostoevsky and the later one by David James Duncan), The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Paul Elie), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan), Selected Poems by George Herbert, John Donne, Gerard Manly Hopkins and Wendell Berry, The Divine Comedy (Dante), Paradise Lost (Milton), Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton), Girl Meets God (Lauren Winner), My Faith So Far (Patton Dodd), Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Mark Noll), The Art of Biblical Narrative (Robert Alter), Evangelium Vitae (Pope John Paul II), The Madonna of 115th St. (Robert Orsi), American Jesus and Religious Literacy (Stephen Prothero), and anything by Peter Manseau, Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Kathleen Norris, Ron Hansen, Walter Wangerin, or Thomas Merton