David B Marshall
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | writer, intellectual pioneer |
| Location | Qingdao, Shandong, China |
| Introduction | I'm a writer! Which means I love good books, and I try to live life to the full. I'm also a teacher, which means I like young people, and enjoy opening their minds to the many wonders of God's creation. I've written six books now, with my newest being "How Jesus Passes the Outside Test: The Inside Story." In the fall of 2012, our anthology, Faith Seeking Understanding, also came out, with contributions from Philip Yancey, Alvin Plantinga, Rodney Stark, Miriam Adeney, Yuan Zhiming, Randal Rauser, Earl Palmer, and a bunch of other great people. What else? I love growing grapes, peaches, apples, and strawberries, and veggies. I love clear alpine lakes in August when they warm up enough to swim in after a long uphill hike, cross-country skiing under snow-laden hemlocks, fields of spring rape and barley that step up from the river valleys of Southwest China, in spring, and taking our boys to Yellowstone. Christmas, too. Oh, and I live in China, which sometimes makes it hard to connect here. |
| Interests | history, language, religions, gardening, hiking, "exploring strange new worlds" |
| Favorite movies | Fiddler on the Roof, Forrest Gump, The Incredibles, Braveheart, The Mission, River Runs Through It. |
| Favorite music | I've been growing to like Classical music more and more, though I still try not to know much about it. Tchaikovsky is probably my favorite. |
| Favorite books | C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Lin Yutang, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rodney Stark, JRR Tolkien, Chinese poetry, Journey to the West . . . |