MLonginow
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Journalism Professor |
| Location | Riverside, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a graduate of Beye School, Oak Park-River Forest High School, Wheaton College, the Moody Bible Institute (Advanced Studies Program), the University of Illinois in Urbana (M.S. in News Editorial Journalism), and the University of Kentucky (Ph.D dissertation on the interplay of higher education and journalism). I reported news for dailies in Illinois and Georgia, and have done an American Society of Newspaper Editors internship with the Grand Rapids Press (MI). Journalism matters to me, but the language of our swirling cultures in this nation is the biggger story and I have a passion for helping students "get it" when it comes to the faith perspective that underlies all good truth-telling, whether in newspapers, magazines, on television, on radio or on the Internet. I love my wife, I love my growing children, and I am learning to love California -- though I miss the green countryside of Kentucky (where I taught at Asbury College for 16 years) and the skyline view of Chicago's lakefront at night. |
| Interests | Prayer, Bible Study, Reading great books, Reporting, Writing, Photojournalism, Graphics Design, Archives Research, Cultural Theory study, Literacy study, Cross-Cultural Communication study, Latino/Chicano studies, Ukrainian studies, studies in Christian and general higher education, Historical research in regional planning and development, distance running, competitive swimming, cross-country cycling, cartooning |
| Favorite movies | Rocky 1, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bells of St. Mary's, A Beautiful Mind, The Patriot, Absence of Malice, All the President's Men, Citizen Kane, Shattered Glass, Mississippi Burning, The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can, The Passion of the Christ, the Tolkien series, The Witness, Shane. |
| Favorite music | Mozart and Bach orchestral, Brahms piano, Beethoven piano, pipe organ music from the biggest cathedrals on the planet, contemporary Christian music, Doo Wop-era black music, the Beatles, anything by the Brooklyn Tabernacle choir, Tejano music and its variations, Cajun blues, and Motown music from the era of women's breakthrough into pop/rock in the 1960s. |
| Favorite books | The Bible, the great Biblical commentaries, anything by C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writing, Frank Peretti, Richard Rorty, Michael Polanyi, Leonard Sweet, Frank Luther Mott, Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, J.D. Salinger, Jack London, Walter Lippmann. |
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
My parents, I guess. But I wouldn't need the address book. They're my roots and my link to where I've been.