charles p.

Italian Baroque, Bach, Mozart, American Jazz of the 1950s (Coltrane, Parker), blues (Buddy Guy, SRV), classic rock of the 1960s and 70s (Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Clapton), music of Woodstock, 1969 (I was there!), reggae, classical guitar, Bob Dylan, Phil Keaggy, Daniel Amos, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, folk music (protest songs).

I've written An Introduction to the New Testament (Hendrickson), The Letters of Paul (Liturgical Press), An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts (Eerdmans, 2008), The Conclusion of Luke-Acts (Wipf and Stock, 2009). I also enjoy great works of fiction (e.g., M. Cervantes, William Thackeray, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, Faulkner, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green) good current novels (Philip Roth, Updike, Russell Banks, John Irving, Don DeLillo) history (American Civil War, Rome, Spain, Greece, European Battles), biography (e.g., Caesar, Napolean, Washington, Lincoln, Franklin), ancient Greek and Roman classics, some science fiction (Philip K. Dick, R. Bradbury, K. Vonnegut W. Gibson, R. Silverberg) and mysteries (D. Sayers, A. Christie, Crispin, C. Dexter, A. C. Doyle, G. Greene), fantasy (C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, G. MacDonald), literary criticism (Gadamer, Riceour, Eco, Kermode, Alter), philosophy (S. Kierkegaard, Thomas Reid, A. Platinga), and theology (Luther, Calvin, K. Barth, D. Bonhoeffer, J. Moltmann, W. Brueggemann, N.T. Wright, W. Wink) and the Bible in its original languages (i.e., Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic). ///Quote: In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. Translation: Everywhere I have searched for peace and nowhere found it except in a corner with a book./// "Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra. ~ Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man.----Seneca", Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Tolstoy, P. D. James, Colin Dexter, Evelyn Waugh, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers.

Apocaylpse Now (1979), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Richard III (1955), Amadeus, Dead Poets Society (1991), The Godfather (1972), Finding Forrester (2000), Fargo (1996), Hamlet (1996), Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982), Lord of the Rings (FOR 2001, TT 2202, ROK 2003), Shadowlands (1993), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), An Unconvenient Truth (2006), Amazing Grace (2007). Some of my favorites above are "R" rated.

I, Claudius (BBC/PBS); HBO:Rome; Sopranos; 24; Dexter; The History Channel; The Military Channel; PBS specials on Greece and Rome; The Discovery Channel; CSI:Miami; ESPN; CNN; MSNBC.

Crete; Athens; Izmir, Turkey; Jerusalem, Haifa, Israel; Hong Kong; Maui, Hawaii; Girona and Barcelona, Spain; Lucca and Florence, Tuscany, Rome, Italia; Cancun, Mexico; Oxford and London, UK; Amsterdam, Holland; San Diego, CA; Boca Grande, FL; NYC, NY. So much more to see!

Jogging; swimming; fishing; boating; golf; travel; guitar playing and singing (folk, blues, jazz, rock); biking; walking my dog; movie going; seeing Shakespeare performances and other drama; attending the symphony or a concert; book collecting; participating in a few book clubs; attending an annual weekend spiritual retreat that follows the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola., jogging, swimming, golf, biking, book collecting, movie and theatre going, site seeing in exotic places, travel, playing my guitar and singing with other musicians.

revising my Introduction to the New Testament; reading more Greco-Roman literature related to NT studies (comedy, tragedy, history, biography, letters, rhetoric), reading more fun novels and some literary theory, go to Paris with my wife and daughter.