David M. Bunker
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Nashville/Chicago, TN /IL, United States |
| Introduction | I am married to Katherine who is a genuine altruist and missionary for the arts all over the world. I teach at a few local universities upon occasion in Nashville & Chicago, write poetry, involve myself in a community entitled Wellspring which is a collective of men and women interested in spirituality, the arts & community. I write too much, think too much, and am grateful for people in my life who bring balance through parties, celebrations, art shows, prayer meetings, great worship, and a deep desire to simplify life. |
| Interests | aesthetics, art history, theology, poetry, intellectual history, spirituality, the future, social networking and community building, co-housing, creatvity, men's spirituality, work as devotion, worship as sacrament, language and reality formation, spiritual disciplines, providence & syncronicity, the church as culture, the history of popular music, |
| Favorite movies | Millions, Alphaville, Weekend, Fanny & Alexander, King of Hearts, The Science of Sleep, Tender Mercies, Catch 22, Through a Glass Darkly, Mad Women of Chaillot, Simon Birch, American Graffiti, Blade Runner, Babette’s Feast, Clockwork Orange,Fiddler on the Roof, The Apostle, Breathless, Hard Days Night, Brazil, Born into Brothels, Life is Beautiful,The Mission, Chariots of Fire, Cinderella Man, Being There, Crash, Spit Fire Grill, Munich, Gandhi, Les Miserable, Mississippi Burning, Count of Monte Cristo, Awakenings, Sleeper, Color Purple, Shine, Rumble Fish, The Outsiders,Spinal Tap, Chinatown, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, No Country for Old Men, The Shawshank Redemption, Dead Poets Society, The Straight Story, Magnolia, Pay it Forward, In America, L’Chocolat, Music of the Heart, Hotel Rwanda, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Dead Man Walking, The Last Waltz, Network, Rob Roy, Ground Hog Day, Brother Sun Sister Moon, The Pianist, Akeelah and the Bee, Truman Show, Schindler's List, The Manchurian Candidate (62), Singing in the Rain, The Wizard of OZ, Casablanca, Its a Wonderful Life, Forest Gump, Slingblade, The Grifters |
| Favorite music | Samuel Barber,Richard Rodgers,Aaron Copland ,Claude Debussey, Ravel, Robert Johnson,Bessie Smith,John Lee Hooker, Cream,Beatles, Bruce Cockburn, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, My Brightest Diamond, Son Lux, Zero 7, Massive Attack, Air, David Benoit, Joni Mitchell, Beck, Andrew Bird, Feist, Imogene Heap, Sly & the Family Stone,Sara Groves, Shawn Colvin, Teitur, Damien Rice, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Iris Dement, ,Mark Cohn,Foy Vance, Willy Porter, Patti Griffin, Sting, Van Dyke Parks, Beach Boys, Randy Newman, David Wilcox, Crowded House, Charlie Peacock, Robert Randolph & the Family, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Rob Jungklas, Mark Knopfler, Harry Nilsson, Fairport Convention, Little Feat, Tower of Power, James Brown, Monte Montgomery, Jimmy Hendrix,Buffalo Springfield,The Byrds,The Band, King Crimson,Muse,Foo Fighters,Pete Seeger,Van Morrison, James Taylor, Leo Kotke,Eva Cassidy,Bill Withers, John Coltrane,Radiohead, Annie Lennox/Dave Stewart,Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye,John Mayer,Phil Keaggy, Aretha Franklin,Simon & Garfunkel,Diana Kroll, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, |
| Favorite books | Beauty-John O'Donohue,How (Not)to Speak of God-Peter Rollins, Thomas Merton-Seven Story Mountain,The Shape of Things to Come- Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch, The Wounded Healer- Henri Nouwen, Has Modernism Failed? Suzi Gablik,The Reenchantment of Art-Suzi Gablik, Conversattions at the End of Time-Suzi Gablik, The Lure of the Local- Luci Lippard, Iron John-Robert Bly, The Bible, Soul Making - The Desert Way of Spirituality-Alan Jones, The Road Less Traveled M. Scott Peck, Echoing Silence-Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing Edited by Robert Inchausti, Spiritual Direction & Meditation-Thomas Merton, Subversive Orthodoxy - Robert Inchausti, Addiction & Grace-Gerald G. May, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales-Bruno Bettelheim, The Holy Longing- Ronald Rohlheiser, The Shattered Lantern-Ronald Rohlheiser, In the Ruins of the Church - R.R. Reno, Freedom of Simplicity- Richard J. Foster, Life is a Miracle - Essays Against Modern Superstitions-Wendell Berry, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life-James Hollis, The Spirituality of Imperfection / Storytelling & the Search for Meaning- Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham, The Spirit of the Disciplines - Dallas Willard, The Sabbath-Wayne Muller, The Wild Man's Journey-Richard Rohr, The Catholic Imagination-Andrew Greeley, Pilgrims at Tinker Creek & The Writing Life - Annie Dillard, The Republic - Plato, The Prince-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Inferno- Dante, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens, Democracy in America- Alexis de Tocqueville, Four Quartets-T.S. Eliot, The Canterbury Tales-Geoffrey Chaucer,The Brothers Karamazov -Fyodor Dostoevsky,Pensees by Blaise Pascal,Practice in Christianity - Søren Kierkegaard, War & Peace -Tolstoy, The Dialogues -Socrates, The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis, Life Together Dietrich Bonhoeffer, |