American history;
care for God's creation;
refuse, reduce, reuse, or recycle;
end extreme poverty;
peace and justice; ethical investing (e.g., Calvert);
fair trade coffee and tea and human traffic-free chocolate;
grass-fed, free range/cage free, locally grown nutrition; conflict-free diamonds; green, clean, and high mileage vehicles; wood that is certified as FSC sustainable by the international Forest Stewardship Council; end the genocide in Darfur; do all that you can to reverse global warming; sunrises and sunsets at the beach; babbling brooks in the mountains; Myspace.
I'd like to meet:
Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.; Thich Nhat Hanh; Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela; John R. W. Stott, Rowan Williams, Desmond and Leah Tutu; John and Elizabeth Edwards; Garrison Keillor, Ann Curry, Bill Moyers, Pema Chodron; Walter Brueggemann, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson; Daniel and Tara-Bennett Goleman; Martha Raddatz, Fareed Zakaria; Rob Bell, Donald Miller, Tavis Smiley, Kailani Lee, Joseph Califano, Bob Graham, Chris Jordan, John Ortberg, Kathleen Norris, Karen Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen, Becky Garrison, N. T. Wright, Jack and Meg White, Anderson Cooper, Henry Waxman, Robin Meade, Paul Newman, Michael Eric Dyson all my Myspace friends, and YOU. Another good question is: where would you like to visit someday? How about the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland?
Michael Anderson - Be Not Afraid
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Michael Anderson - Be Not Afraid
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Music:
Classic rock, late 60s through the 70s to the early 80s, John Denver, CSN&Y, the first two decades of Chicago, the Beatles, "Jesus music" from the early 70s such as Larry Norman, Ray Hildebrand, Love Song, etc.
classical, jazz, U2, some bluegrass and country,
some Christian rock (go Switchfoot!). Musicals: Godspell, The Lion King.
Movies:
The Lion King,
The Breakfast Club,
The Wizard of Oz,
Forrest Gump,
Gandhi, Luther, A Hard Day's Night, Diary of a Mad Black Woman,
Casablanca, Tender Mercies,
It's A Wonderful Life,
Reds,
Rocky,
Citizen Kane,
Shoah, Schindler's List, Star Wars, The Return of the Jedi, Babe, Hoosiers, Silent Running, Walk the Line, Brother Son, Sister Moon,
Jesus of Nazareth, O Brother Where Art Thou, Gettysburg, The Rainmaker, Facing the Giants.
Television:
Sunrise Earth on Discovery HD Theater; House, M.D.; American Idol; History Detectives, The News Hour with Jim Leher, Comment on Kentucky, NOW with David Brancaccio, Bill Moyers' Journal, Expose, or anything associated with Bill Moyers, Washington Week with Gwen Ifill, the McLaughlin Group, BBC World, Jubilee; NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams; the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric; "the best political team on television" on CNN, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, PBS Frontline, Face the Nation. When I have some extra time I might catch the Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Kentucky Life, The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, Tavis Smiley; Jeopardy; whatever bowl the Tennessee football team is playing, Kentucky basketball when they're in the final four, I also like to watch Peyton Manning lead the Indianapolis Colts; The Late Show with David Letterman, the Today Show. My laugh-out-loud moments generally come from watching the Simpsons or old episodes of Seinfeld. The best shows ever include Northern Exposure, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, and of course, The West Wing. My wife has recently been getting me hooked into some episodes of Law & Order and the conclusion of the Celebrity Apprentice. And we'll catch a few minute's of Oprah's The Big Give.
Radio shows: Whad'Ya Know with Michael Feldman, A Prairie Home Companion, The World with Lisa Mullins, Fresh Air, On Point, Open Source with Christopher Lydon, Performance Today with Fred Child, All Things Considered, Speaking of Faith, Morning Edition, Bob Edwards Weekend. A great show that is both a TV and a radio show is the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour, recorded in the Kentucky Theater in Lexington, KY
Books:
anything by M. Scott Peck, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Emil Brunner, Dr. Suess, Shel Silverstein, Eugene Peterson, John Ortberg, Daniel Goleman, Thomas Cahill, Philip Yancey, Bill McKibben, Rowan Williams, Richard Rohr, Brennan Manning, Harold Ivan Smith, C. S. Lewis, Brian McLaren, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, David Richo, Pope John Paul II, Al Gore, Mother Teresa, Martin Buber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Og Mandino, Frederick Buechner, Jim Palmer, Michael Eric Dyson and Doris Kearns Goodwin. My favorite books of all time include The Odyssey by Homer, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Walden by Henry David Thoreau and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I like to occasionally improve my use of the English language by reading poetry (especially Edgar Allan Poe) aloud or picking up a volume of Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald. I like to listen to a deep, resonate voice reading aloud The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran; Stephen Covey has helped me with time management, Andrew Weil has helped me with health and the Tao te Ching helps me to "go with the flow." On vacation this year I read Land of Lincoln by Andrew Ferguson. Lately I've read and am recommending Senator John Danforth's Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together, as well as Immaculee Ilibagiza's Left to Tell. The next book on my list is Bishop Desmond Tutu's No Future Without Forgiveness. God bless Shane Claiborne for writing Irresistible Revolution and Brian McLaren for writing Everything Must Change. Am presently reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Heroes:
Jesus, Brian McLaren, Rich Mullins, Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Shane Claiborne, Cory Booker, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, Bono, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Kung, Rob Bell, Henri Nouwen, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Rachel Carson, Edward R. Murrow, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Dr. J. W. MacGorman, Andy Stern, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Edwards, Wendell Berry, Reggie McNeil, David Grossman, Jim Smoke, Al Gore, Pat Summitt, John Wooden, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fredrick Douglass, Sarah Chayes, Woodrow Wilson during his first term as President, George Washington's cabinet during his first term as President, Richard Cizik, T.R. for creating the National Parks, the oratory of F.D.R. and J.F.K., R.F.K. in '68, L.B.J.'s domestic agenda, R.F.K. Jr., Bill and Hillary for working on their marriage after his affair(s), Amy Grant during her Christian music heyday, 1977-1989, Francis Collins, Ronald J. Sider, Greg Boyd, Sage Remington, William Wilberforce, Martin E. Marty, Sojourner Truth, Bill Moyers, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Fred Rogers, Bill Hybels, Rick Warren, Richard Foster, Mother Theresa, John Grisham, Irena Sendler, Maxine Hong Kingston, Katie Radford, Bill Strickland, David Livingstone, my wife, my kids, my Sunday School class, my divorce recovery leadership team, my single adult event leadership team, all those who shine a light of hope for others.
