Dan Glover
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Currently working as curate at St. John's Vancouver Anglican Church and completing a MA in Theological Studies at Regent College, Vancouver BC. |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Introduction | A commonplace book is a place for collecting significant quotes, observations, and reflections. Our family's Commonplace Creative blog approaches the 'collective' aspect from a different angle: as a place where we can collect our family's various creative efforts. It is Dan's profile but Commonplace Creative is our whole family's project. |
| Interests | worshipping with my church, spending time with my wife and 4 children - often playing music together, good stories (print, verbal or film), studying Scripture, theology and hermeneutics, reading widely, woodworking, building and/or fixing things, hiking, being out doors (with campfire & pipe), craft beer, good coffee, great food, driving my supercharged '74 MGB, conversation with interesting people about interesting things |
| Favorite movies | Master and Commander, Bleak House, Ben Hur, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window, Casablanca, Waking Ned Devine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, TinTin, Pan's Labyrinth, A Bridge Too Far, 12 Angry Men (original), To Kill A Mocking Bird, Chariots of Fire, Pride & Predjudice (long BBC version), Cinderella Man, Saving Private Ryan, LOTR (with reservations), the Peter Sellers Pink Panther flicks, Ratatouille, Sound of Music, Wooster & Jeeves (select episodes), The Iron Giant, Children of Men, most dystopian films, anything by Alfred Hitchcock |
| Favorite music | anything by Mark Heard, everything by Mark Knopfler, most of Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, everything by Bach and most of Handel, and much much more |
| Favorite books | Augustine, Irenaeus, Athanasius, Bonaventure, Basil, Richard Baxter, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, P.G. Wodehouse, Patrick O'Brian, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John Buchan, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Lesslie Newbigin, Peter Leithart, J.I. Packer, John Stott, Charles Spurgeon, Alan Jacobs, Wendel Berry, Kevin Vanhoozer, Hans Boersma, N.T. Wright, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and many more... |