srshanks
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Episcopal Deacon |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | Lives in Richmond, Virginia, works at a regional engineering firm, and is an ordained Episcopal Deacon. Alabama. Has provided leadership, training and advocacy for 35+ years for groups including SANE Freeze, HIV/AIDS, and the School of the Americas Watch. Certified provider of hospice chaplaincy. Has served on the Diocesan Department of Mission and Outreach, and the AIDS Task Force. Active at various times and roles in Cursillo, Happening, and Kairos communities. Currently serves as the Jubilee Officer for the Diocese of Alabama. Convener and co-founder of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) Alabama chapter. Serves on the national boards of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and Creating a Culture of Peace. Provides nonviolent direct action training for the School of Americas rally and vigil, Christian Peace Witness, as well as others. Associate of the Order of the Holy Cross, based in Benedictine spirituality. Active in expanding the nonviolent movement within the Episcopal Church by providing leadership, while standing in solidarity with the people of the church who are working for issues related to justice, peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. |
| Interests | Issues related to peace, justice, and reconciliation including: Nonviolence Training, Nuclear Abolition, School of the Americas Watch, Death Penalty, Poverty, Hunger |
| Favorite movies | Il Postino, Chocolat, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Le Choriste, Mostly Martha, Whale Rider, au hasard Balthazar |
| Favorite music | Grace Potter, Emma's Revolution with Pat Humphries, Colleen Kattau, Trish Murphy, Diana Krall, Iron & Wine, Dar Williams, The Waifs, Patty Larkin, Marcia Ball, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Buddy Guy, Caitlin Cary, Cheryl Wheeler, Neko Case, Eddie From Ohio, Kathleen Edwards, Christene LeDoux, Fran McKendree, Garrison Starr, Julia Migenes, Kasey Chambers, Kate Campbell, Kate Rusby, Kelly Willis, Kim Richey, Sixpence None the Richer, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lucy Kaplansky, Matraca Berg, Odetta, Patti Smith, Pierce Pettis, Susan Tedeschi, Suzzy Roche, Tift Merritt, Todd Snider, Jill Phillips, Indigo Girls, Lucinda Williams, New Pornographers, Natalie Merchant |
| Favorite books | I am a reader and found it daunting to think about creating a list of favorites so this isn't it, but it is a sampling of what's in the bookcase closest to me, including: Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, Book of Common Prayer 1979, New Jerusalem Bible, "On Being Liked", James Alison; "The Rule of Benedict", Joan Chittister; "Testimony: The Word Made Flesh", Daniel Berrigan; "The Blindfold's Eyes", Sister Dianna Ortiz with Patricia Davis; "We Preach Christ Crucified", Kenneth Leech; "The Way of the Wolf", Martin Bell; "The Long Loneliness", Dorothy Day; "The Rose that grew From Concrete", Tupac Shakur; "Resistance and Contemplation", James W. Douglass; "Go and Do Likewise", William C. Spohn; "Systematic Theology", Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacuria; "A Theology of Liberation", Gustavo Gutierrez; "The Crucified God", Jurgen Moltmann; "Thinking About God", Dorothee Solle; "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning", Rene Girard; "Dissenter in a Great Society", William Stringfellow; "Gifted by Otherness", L. William Countryman; "The Longhorns", J. Frank Dobie; "The Prophets", Abraham Joshua Heschel; "Middlemarch", George Eliot; "The Captain's Verses", Pablo Neruda; "For The Time Being", Annie Dillard; "The Cornel West Reader", Cornel West; "The Only Necessary Thing", Henri J. M. Nouwen; "Theology Today"; "Christ and Horrors", Marilyn McCord Adams |