Jonathan E. Carroll
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | pastor/teacher |
| Location | Owensboro, Western Kentucky, United States |
| Introduction | I am a child of God. I live into that blessing by practicing life as a husband to a brilliant and lovely bride, a father to a life-giving little girl, a brother, a son. I am a pastor of the Presbyterian bent, a local man rooted in a particularity of place - that being Owensboro, Western Kentucky, the Ohio River, Downtown, next door, right here, which is not that far from you. As a pastor, I am a listener, a proclaimer, and a pray-er. This is what I do. And more. For instance, I read, slowly but surely. I attend to the minutiae of my life and the lives of others. God is in the midst of the mundane, bringing beauty out of banalities, goodness from grief, and it is my work simply to point to such graces and to relieve the tightness in their chests. I care deeply about authenticity, compassion, unmasking the idolatries, and holding the world before God in honest lament and longing. I am an aching visionary, seeing what is yet what shouldn't be, what is not yet but what almost is. I hope out loud for a community of committed, curious, generous folk to experience something of the joy that is life along the way of Jesus. This is the land of my life: the country of ministry. |
| Interests | My bride, Our little girl, Reading, Riding, Camping, Hiking, And walks along the river's edge where I go to offer my prayers. |
| Favorite movies | Crash, Shawshank Redemption, Love Actually, Junebug, The Corporation, The Future of Food. |
| Favorite music | John Gorka. Joni Mitchell. Derek Webb. Adrienne Young & Little Sadie, Rufus Wainwright, Imogen Heap |
| Favorite books | Gospel as Comedy Tragedy & Fairytale by Frederick Buechner, Traveling Mercies and Plan B by Anne Lamott, The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
Right here.