Allan Roy Andrews
My blogs
- faithfloss:
- Writer's floss
- Gathered Quotations (2012-2013)
- Mastering my DSLR
- Allan Roy Andrews--Poetry
- Faith At Ease
- ARA in Print
- Memory Floss
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Journalist/Editor/Writer/Poet |
| Location | Augusta, Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a former newspaper editor and columnist who has spent most of his professional life in a newsroom or a classroom. I left academic preparation in the psychology of religion to devote myself to journalism. As a journalist, I have always had an interest in religion journalism--an interest that eludes many editors--and continues to do so.. Now semi-retired, my part-time jobs have included teaching at an area community college and work as a part-time information librarian in a county public library. I also do freelance editing and am a working poet (http://poetrybyara.wordpress.com). My blogs are intended to explore some of the spaces between religion, education, psychology, journalism, and leisure with lots of philosophical, theological, and popular culture musings inserted. |
| Interests | Always we begin again. Nothing human is alien to me, Amazing grace how sweet the sound, What language is spoken in heaven? Poetry, If your mother says she loves you check it out, You're never to old to begin a second childhood. Wait'll next year! |
| Favorite Movies | The Imitation Game, Selma, The King's Speech, Departures (Japanese), Breaker Morant, The Mission, Galipoli, The Lives of Others (German), The Great Debaters, Dead Poets Society, The Shipping News, The Jesus of Montreal (French), and many too numerous to recall. |
| Favorite Music | All genres, but ultimately my root favorite is bluegrass with classical a close second. |
| Favorite Books | My Brother's War by David Hill, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, All Is Grace by Brennan Manning, Speaking Christian by Marcus Borg, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, The Jesus Wars by Philip Jenkins, The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser, Word Myths: Whose Bible is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslov Pelikan. |
I think the most important question was asked by Jesus of his disciples in Mark 8: "Who do you say that I am?" To mimic the poet William Carlos Williams: "So much depends upon/a human murdered on a cross,/and disciples' visits/to a tomb that is empty."