Gender	Male
Industry	Religion
Occupation	Student/ Youth Pastor
Location	Tacoma, Washington, United States
Introduction	"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." Fyodor Dostoevsky. I'm a Northwest Baptist Seminary graduate (MDiv) and current student (ThM). I plan on someday going to Africa and teach Bible and Theology at a Bible College or Seminary level. I hope to continue my studies and earn a PhD, either after I go to overseas for a few years or before. I'm a theological conservative, but I like to think outside of the box and challenge conventional thinking and consider myself a free thinker. I am currently serving in my fourth year as a Youth Pastor at Prairie Baptist Fellowship in Yelm Washington. My blogs will reflect my thoughts on both seminary and ministry life, though not (of course) exclusively. I enjoy literature and occasionally try my hand at writing stories and poems. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes..." Paul
Interests	Religion, History, Politics, Philosophy, Coffee, Basketball
Favorite movies	The Pianist, Manchurian Candidate (the old one), Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Casablanca, Gladiator, Master and Commander, A Beautiful Mind, V is for Vendetta, The Village, Sixth Sense, Lord of the Rings, To End All Wars, Braveheart, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Cinderella Man, My Fair Lady, The Dark Knight, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, Amistad
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon, The Beatles, Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Dr. Hook, Johnny Cash, Gilbert and Sullivan, Shostakovitch, Beethoven, Old Hymns (17th-18th century usually)
Favorite books	(The Bible) Genesis, Job, Matthew, Romans (Russian Literature) The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Anna Karenina (Other Literature) 1984, Animal Farm, The Name of The Rose, Lord of the Rings, Les Miserables, Brave New World, (C.S. Lewis) Perelanda, That Hideous Strength, Til we have faces, Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, (Theology) Theology of the New Testament [George Ladd], No One Like Him [Feinburg], Not the Way It's Supposed to Be [Plantinga], The Art of Biblical Narrative [Alter], The Story of Christianity [Gonzalez],

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