Eric John
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Non-Profit
- Occupation: Historian
- Location: Madison : Wisconsin : United States
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About Me
I am an Orthodox Christian with an M.A. in Russian Studies, having written my thesis on the Russian Orthodox mission in Alaska. At some point in the future, I would like to do PhD. work on historical cultural interractions between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, focusing on the role of Euro-American and Native American Christian missionaries. I enjoy researching, writing, and sharing what I've discovered with others.
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
"Fallen out?" How do they fall out of a cell phone, hmm?
Interests
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Western Rite Orthodoxy
- Orthodox missions and missionaries
- Native Americans
- Indigenous Nations
- history
- music (singing
- learning how to play guitar and banjo)
- literature (Steinbeck
- Dostoyevsky
- Tolkein)
- writing
- cooking
- watching movies
- being with family and friends
Favorite Movies
- The Gospel of John
- Prisoner of the Mountains
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
- Master and Commander
- The Last Samurai
- Napoleon Dynamite
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Irony of Fate
- The Robe
- The Mission
- Repentance
- Everything is Illuminated
Favorite Music
- Bluegrass
- Oldtime Gospel
- Cajun
- Guitar
- Ecclesiastical chant
- Bach
- international folk music
- Rachmaninov
- Russian ska-punk
- Leningrad
- Gogol Bordello
- Klezmer
Favorite Books
- Salt of the Earth
- Father Arseny
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- An Early Soviet Saint: The Life of Father Zachariah
- Tobit
- the Monastic Diurnal
- the Monastic Breviary
