garThoma

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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