Pete Baker
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Boxing Coach/Pastor |
| Location | Bakersfield, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but as I've lived I've paid attention and learned a few things. My great fortune is to know/have known some truly interesting, good and remarkable people. I've also known some oddballs. |
| Interests | Teaching how to make followers of Jesus who make followers of Jesus who know how to make followers of Jesus, Boxing, Calligraphy, The Great Books, Cartooning, Hasidism, Ancient History, 17th century Metaphysical poetry, The World's Most Fascinating Grandbabies. |
| Favorite movies | The Man Who Would Be King, Gandhi, Being There, The Next Voice You Hear, A Night at the Opera, Green Book |
| Favorite music | Mid-century jazz, Buddy Di Franco, Klezmaniacs |
| Favorite books | Unfair question: Huckleberry Finn, Captain Eli Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, The Iliad (Fagle's translation), David Copperfield, Plato's Dialogues (Great Books edition), The Seven Storey Mountain, Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Aeneid (Mandelbaum's translation), Sherlock Holmes, Economics As If People Mattered, The Last Hurrah, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Theodore Dalrymple essays, Amos Oz novels, Reading Paul Within Judaism, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Thomas More (by Richard Marius), The True Believer (Eric Hoffer), From Dawn to Decadence . . . and a bunch more. |