Laurie
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | teacher, writer, editor |
| Location | Rogers, Arkansas |
| Introduction | I graduated from CSU in Colorado, did an M.A. in Texas in Lingusitics and then worked with Wycliffe in Thailand doing linguistic survey work. Through the years have taught French, linguistics, English Lit...at the high school and university levels...I currently teach a large a bible study and write and edit. I met Jesus when I was around 15...a rebellious, drug-addicted Catholic. Later, I left the Catholic church and got into a small charismatic bible church where I heard solid bible teaching for the first time. I've been in many different sorts of churches on this journey. I have a passion to awaken the "church" to real kingdom living, the kind Jesus had in mind for us to live. I hate what I see in the institutional church--the settling for Sunday love and niceness, a bit of encouraging teaching that cheers up a bit, but never goes deep, never gets into our bones and the core of who we are every day and what we're doing and WHO we're living for... |
| Interests | Jesus, Rob, Zach, Emme, Noah, Jonah, the women I teach, Linguistics, theology, culture, art, history, music, YOU... |
| Favorite movies | The Matrix, Yentl, Breaking the Waves, Crash, Tender Mercies, Slingblade, Braveheart, What the Bleep do we know?, Miss Potter, Everafter, The Usual Suspects |
| Favorite music | Fiest, Amy Winehouse, REM, Godsmack, Ramstein, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Andrea Bocelli, Keren Ann "Nolita", Mat Kearney, Van Morrison, Aux Hommes de Mon Temps... |
| Favorite books | The Bible, Blue Like Jazz, Until We Have Faces, Mere Christianity, Redeeming Love, The Chronicles of Narnia, Where the Wild Things Are, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Addicted to Mediocrity, Celebration of Discipline, God in the Dock, Addiction and Grace, the Tao Te Ching, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... |