Doug P. Baker
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
| Introduction | Hi, I'm Doug, the father of four daughters. I'm a theologian, literary critic and postman living in Bloomington Indiana, in the middle of the US. I am the author of "Covenant and Community: Our Role as the Image of God" (published by Wipf and Stock. I have taught literature to a class of kids of mixed ages, from sixth through twelfth grade: a whole year of Shakespeare (what a glorious year that was!), American Lit, and World Lit (Homer to twelve year olds!). How I miss teaching! I read extensively in poetry, theology and other versions of literature, but I especially am drawn again and again to the poets. By the way, please feel free to comment on any post, even old ones. I notice all comments, no matter when the post was originally put up. |
| Interests | poetry, (reading poetry-not writing it), poetics, sonnets, haiku, literature, Rossetti, Hopkins, Dickinson, Cowper, imago dei, Martin Lloyd Jones, Jonathan Edwards, theology, Reformed theology, Covenant theology, Polanyi, epistemology, exigesis, Bible, Christianity, teaching |
| Favorite Movies | Fiddler on the Roof, Babbette's Feast, Dekalog, Hamlet, (the one with Mel Gibson), The Trouble with Harry, Children of Heaven, Chariots Of Fire, The Princess Bride, My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| Favorite Music | Low, Sufjan Stevens, David Bazan, Pedro the Lion, Pogues, Vashti Bunyan, Tegan and Sara, Morrissey, Mendelson, (Songs without Words) |
| Favorite Books | Till We Have Faces, Brideshead Revisited, Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cry the Beloved Country, Galusha the Magnificent, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hamlet, Freedom of the Will, Jonathan Edwards, Nika Turbina, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kristin Lavransdatter, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Born to Kvetch, Coraline, Neil Gaiman, A Shropshire Lad, Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Chronicles of Narnia, The Iliad, Isaiah |