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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Academic
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Introduction	I'm married to Lynda and we have four children and two grandchildren. I live in Mernda just beyond Melbourne's northern limit. I serve as Associate Professor of Church History and Theology at Booth College, a Member Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity (I commute). I'm a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church. I watch too many movies, especially classic Hollywood, and need to start thinking about alternative storage solutions for my DVDs. As for music, I like it all. iPod therefore I am. I am a book enthusiast with a growing collection of classic theology texts, paperbacks from the classic era of crime fiction and Silver and Bronze Age (1960s and 70s) comics.
Interests	Theology, church history, music, cinema, pop culture.
Favorite movies	Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, Bogart, Cagney, 40s film noir.
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, Wilco, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello.
Favorite books	Moby Dick, James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, Raymond Chandler, Silver Age Marvel and DC comics.

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

No; I put them in a salad.