Brian T. Hartley

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Location Greenville, Illinois, United States
Introduction A consummate traditionalist and romantic, I am the husband of my college sweetheart, have two wonderful, bright, young adult daughters, and am now a grandfather to two grandsons, Tristan and Roran. A college professor in a small town outside of St. Louis, I teach, preach, and write as a vocation, while playing the drums, acting, and baking bread as an avocation.
Interests Reading, Writing, Baking Bread, Drinking coffee/tea with friends, Discovering new libraries and churches, Monastic life, Prayer Books, National Public Radio, Dark Chocolate
Favorite Movies The Wizard of Oz, The English Patient, Cinema Paradiso, Malèna, Kolya, Like Water for Chocolate, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Elizabeth
Favorite Music Bach, Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Byrd, Stanford, Howells, Sarah Vaughan, Norah Jones, the Carpenters, the Stanley Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
Favorite Books Book of Common Prayer, Certaine Sermons and Homilies (1563), Lancelot Andrewes' Preces Privatae, Le Morte d'Arthur, Shakespeare's Tragedies, To Serve them All My Days, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy & Fairy Tale, Blue Highways, Good Poems (Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor), Pigeon Feathers, Jude the Obscure, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Prayers of a Very Wise Child, Travels With Charley, George Herbert's The Temple, In the Name of Jesus, In the Beginning, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity

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