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About Me

Well, I'm from North Carolina and I'm still trying to adapt to the miserable heat of Dallas, TX. I'll be moving up to Connecticut in the Fall, where I'll start work on my master's degree in biblical studies at Yale Divinity School. My concentration is in New Testament studies, with the hope being to eventually teach - all hail "professional students." I think people really change a lot, especially when the love of Christ grabs hold of your life. That being said, I hope the thing that most defines my life is a deep desire to continually seek and make known the person who has given me everything - life now and to come. And so I hope my life will reflect the light of Jesus Christ, the God-child who became God-crucified who became God-risen and exalted. I praise Him who walks the recesses of the deep, makes the heavens His home, and will one day change this world into perfection and clothe His people with immortality...

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My Interests

snow skiing, biblical Greek, getting outdoors -anytime and anywhere, pubs & taverns, working out, Tarheel basketball, coffee houses,the UK, international football, roaming the beaches of NC, historical Jesus studies, the study of Christian origins, reading, eating sushi, traveling (especially when it takes me out of Texas), looking at doctoral programs, home brewing. listening to Dan Wallace lectures

I'd like to meet:

Christian Bale (favorite actor), Butch Davis (head football coach at UNC), Mike & Mike (best thing to listen to on the radio), and any of the old guys that played baseball before 1960.

Music:

jack johnson, third eye blind, the killers, death cab for cutie, shane & shane, nick drake, ryan adams, sun kil moon, telecast, o.a.r., cake, pinback, modest mouse, red house painters, colin hay, spoon, the weepies, the helio sequence,rogue wave, the kooks, voxtrot, black rebel motorcycle club - and just about anything really...

Movies:

Big fan of the LOTR world (yep, nerd!!!), Pan's Labyrinth, any of the Tom Clancy stuff, Da Vinci Code, Gladiator, Batman Begins, 300

Television:

Arrested Development (pure comic genius) & any/all college sports- particularly ACC basketball, which, sadly enough, I never get to see living in Big XII land.

Books:

favorite authors - N.T. Wright, E.P. Sanders, James Dunn, Karl Barth

Heroes:

the international students at DTS, pastors who pour their whole lives into a small congregation, Nathan Holsteen - for living what a professor should be, & Joseph Fantin (a mentor in many ways) who patiently tolerates a scholar wannabe...

My Blog

matt's first ever annual beer rankings...

Without further ado, here's the top five....5) Harp - The best ale (apologies to Stella Artois), but I've just grown fond of this one recently...4) Murphy's Stout - OK, let's end the debate. You've g...
Posted by matt on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:47:00 PST

social justice and the poor

Something from Doug Hayes. I think this is right on the money; though I feel you can easily replace 'Suburbia' with, say DTS, and still get the intended effect....-Hayes,"Living in suburbia can lead t...
Posted by matt on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:49:00 PST

Something weighty from C.S. Lewis

It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or b...
Posted by matt on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:52:00 PST

You know you're a "nerd" when...

1) The phrase, "I think comparative linguistics is where it's at!" comes up in conversation.2) You study when you could be watching football.3) You see english words and think koine greek sounds.4) Yo...
Posted by matt on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:19:00 PST