Richard L. Floyd
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Confessing Christ > Blog
- P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m
- Reflections of a Reformed Pastor
- THE MONDAY EVENING CLUB
- To Speak Now of God
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Retired pastor, writer |
| Location | Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | I am a United Church of Christ pastor, writer and blogger, living in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts with my wife Martha. We have two adult children. I am Pastor Emeritus of First Church of Christ in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where I served for 22 years before retiring. I have two blogs “When I Survey . . .” and “Rick's Recipes.” “When I Survey . . .” contains some of my ruminations on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, theology, Christian ministry, the church, ecumenism, cooking, food and wine, the arts, books, films, poetry, politics, traumatic brain injury, New England Sports teams, cycling and the occasional rant. I have also archived many of my published and unpublished essays, books reviews, hymns, special-occasion sermons, papers and addresses from my four decades as a pastor-theologian. “Rick's Recipes” is pretty much what it sounds like. |
| Interests | Theology, Christian theology, soteriology, atonement, 19th century British theology, P.T. Forsyth, Karl Barth, Isaac Watts, hymns, music, ecumenism, Reformed theology, bicycling, walking, cooking, wine, cheese, single malt whisky, reading, writing, photography, the Berkshires, Boston Red Sox, traumatic brain injury. |
| Favorite Movies | Casablanca, Being There, Back to the Future, Heaven Can Wait, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Departed, Chinatown, L. A. Confidential, Fargo, The Big Leibowski |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, J. S. Bach, jazz, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan |
| Favorite Books | Moby Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, The Book of Bebb, The Name of the Rose, Gilead, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Father Melancholy's Daughter, The Death of Adam |