Jonathan McRay

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Location Jellico, Tennessee, United States
Introduction Ask the sick, the lonely, the poor, and the oppressed. Ask my friends. I am unfinished.
Interests Traveling, reading (fact, fiction, and poetry), writing (fact, fiction, and poetry), Music, myth, Silence, Beauty, conversations, listening, singing and dancing, sitting under a tree, thinking, hiking, being in the woods, campfires, drinking chai around a fire while in the woods, rain, playing basketball (and Duke and the Spurs), Autumn, Nature, Peace and Justice, the Middle East, Chai Night, Farm Cell, photography, making movies, and Following...
Favorite Movies The Lord of the Rings; Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut); Dead Poets Society; The Four Feathers; Braveheart; Gladiator; The Last of the Mohicans; Treasure Island (Heston/Bale version); Ratatouille; Return to Treasure Island; Master and Commander; The Mission; Lawrence of Arabia; The Princess Bride; Empire of the Sun; Ocean's 11/12/13; Munich; Amistad; Indiana Jones; Ben-Hur; Newsies; The Last Samurai; The Shawshank Redemption; The Man from Snowy River; Hook; Fiddler on the Roof; Brother Sun, Sister Moon; O, Brother Where Art Thou?; The Village; Big Fish; To End All Wars; A Goofy Movie; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; and many more
Favorite Music Celtic music, Nickel Creek (and Chris Thile), U2, Chris Rice, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, The Decemberists, Jars of Clay, John Denver, Rich Mullins, Howie Day, Relient K, Fernando Ortega, John Mayer (mainly just Continuum), Derek Webb, Simon and Garfunkel, Over the Rhine, Anonymous Four, Punch Brothers, Afro-Celt Sound System, classical, jazz, and Music of Culture and Nature
Favorite Books The Lord of the Rings, anything by Brian McLaren (A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, A New Kind of Christian Trilogy, etc.), The Name of the Rose, The Alchemist, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Leaf by Niggle (short story), The Irresistible Revolution, What's So Amazing About Grace?, Brave New World, Flowers for Algernon, Fahrenheit 451, Sherlock Holmes canon, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin), C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, Christianity Rediscovered, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, the Gospels, Isaiah, James, etc.