David Ensign

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About me

Industry Religion
Occupation pastor and writer
Location United States
Introduction David Ensign is a writer, filmmaker, and Presbyterian pastor in Northern Virginia. He used the "nom de blog" Christian Wright for more than a decade, dating back to the days when bloggers rarely used their actual names. Old school.
Interests faith, progressive politics, film, music, pop culture, baseball
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, The Graduate, Young Frankenstein, Seventh Seal, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Hoosiers, O Brother Where Art Thou
Favorite Music REM, U2, John Rutter's Requiem, Dylan, Beethoven's 5th and 9th
Favorite Books Bible, The Brothers K, Taylor Branch's Civil Rights trilogy, anything by Walter Brueggemann, silly mysteries, Derrida's Of Spirit, William Sloan Coffin's Creedo, Anne LaMott's Traveling Mercies, Douglas John Hall's Why Christian?

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

A fascinating question that brings to mind the evolution of storks, from which babies emerge. Storks, of course, evolved from loons.