My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Location	Kakakee, Illinois, United States
Introduction	My name is Gary Thomas. I am an artist, writer, sometimes preacher, worship leader, guitar player, wannabe farmer, bike commuter and art professor at Olivet Nazarene University.
Interests	art, reading, bicycling, drawing, oil painting, woodcut printmaking, printmaking, writing, coffee, vegan, country living, self-reliant living, self-sustained living, voluntary simplicity, silence, solitude, prayer
Favorite movies	Paris Texas, Rabbit Proof Fence, Wings of Desire, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Northfork
Favorite music	folk, classical, praise and worship, Rachel's, Arvo Part, Peter Gabriel
Favorite books	The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning; Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell; Reaching Out, Henri Nouwen; In the Name of Jesus, Henri Nouwen; New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton; A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian McClaren; The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen; Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Sailing Alone Around the Room (poetry), Billy Collins