Derek Thomas

About me

Occupation	Professor/Minister
Location	United States
Introduction	Welsh by birth and disposition; John E. Richards Professor of Theology, RTS; Minister of Teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson; Editorial Director, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals; Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI; Married since 1976, to a devoted Braves fan, Rosemary.
Interests	Collecting CDs of Classical Music;, The Writings of John Bunyan;, Teaching my dog 'Jake' the finer points of supralapsarianism;, Wondering what marriage to someone who doesn't like baseball would be like;, Answering the question, 'What's it like to work for Ligon Duncan?' or even better, 'Do you know Ligon Duncan?';, Wagner;, Bruckner;, Mahler;, Science Fiction;, Talking to my granddaughter via webcam
Favorite Movies	How Green Was My Valley (not really a movie guy!)
Favorite Music	Gustav Mahler's symphonies & Das Lied von der Erde; Bruckner's Eighth Symphony; Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen; 'Im Abendrot' by Richard Strauss; the operas of Richard Strauss and Leoš Janáček;, Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony; Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sontata;, the symphonies of Jean Sibelius; bluegrass if manacled to a chair
Favorite Books	Lord of the Rings; Pilgrim's Progress; Shakespeare's Macbeth, Tempest; Poetry of George Herbert; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The Gramophone (not really a book but a monthly magazine, but I've read it for over 40 years!)