Matt

• Age: 29
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Virgo
• Zodiac Year: Monkey
• Industry: Student
• Occupation: pizza delivery driver
• Location: Athens : Georgia : United States

About Me

I am 24 years old, soon to be 25 (August 30, 2005). I am a white, middle class male (although Trish and I don't really make enough to qualify as middle class). my dad is a United Methodist pastor, my mom an elementary school teacher, and my younger brother an undergraduate history major. We are all Christians, though with some different understandings and emphases. I am married to the awesome Trish Varnell, and she is the biggest blessing to my life outside of the Lord Jesus himself. I am about to start seminary at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. I plan to pursue a career in New Testament scholarship and teaching, but I also want to see the mighty power of God bring His Kingdom more fully on this earth. I want to see more integration: of the charismatic & the intellectual, of the spiritual & the political. I want my own life to be fully, Christian-ly, integrated.

Compose the lyrics to a new national anthem that features an animal sound at least once:

I Moove that we adjourn This season of war; I moove the we sojourn In the land of Lord... how long does the song have to be?

Interests

• my amazing wife Trish
• friends & family
• theology & academia (particularly the work of N.T. Wright)
• the UGA Wesley Foundation
• biblical non-violence
• homosexuality & the church
• roger ebert/IMDB
• poetry
• 6 percent.

Favorite Movies

• Citizen Kane
• Vertigo
• Rope
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Zoolander
• Office Space
• Tape
• Three Kings
• Paths of Glory
• The Age of Innocence
• High Fidelity
• Super Size Me
• Coach Carter
• Before Sunrise
• Before Sunset
• Kevin Smith films
• my short films.

Favorite Music

• The Galactic Cowboys
• King's X
• Atomic Opera
• Tourniquet
• Room Full of Walters
• Poor Old Lu
• Grammatrain/Pete Stewart
• Dream Theater
• Rush
• The Beatles
• Weezer's debut album
• Brave Saint Saturn
• Shane & Shane
• Enter the Worship Circle
• Keith Green
• Jason Upton's "Faith" album
• Kevin Prosch's "Reckless Mercy" album
• The Happenin'
• Derek McTavish Band
• Derek Webb
• Adam's Housecat's "The Least of These" album
• Passion ... many more. oh yeah
• almost forgot guilty pleasures: mid to late 90's country
• especially alan jackson (though he's still current).

Favorite Books

• Jesus & the Victory of God (N.T. Wright)
• Revolution in the Church (Michael L. Brown)
• The Resurrection of the Son of God (N.T. Wright)
• The New Testament & The People of God (N.T. Wright)
• Gift & Giver (Craig Keener)
• The Politics of Jesus (John Howard Yoder)
• The Moral Vision of the New Testament (Richard B. Hays)
• T.S. Eliot
• Flannery O'Connor
• Jeffrey Vassuer

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