Aaron Taylor

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Gender Male
Location Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Introduction I am a Deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, a husband and father of three, an Oblate of St Benedict, a political leftist, and a freelance teacher.
Interests Theology, literature, spirituality, monasticism, philosophy, linguistics & etymology, European history, art, architecture
Favorite Movies Ostrov, Lord of the Rings, Amadeus, Ghostbusters, Young Frankenstein, Star Wars (original trilogy), Andrei Rublev, Rushmore, Mystery Men, The Mission, Transformers the Movie, Shawshank Redemption, The Burbs, Rocky IV, Evil Roy Slade, Orca, Road to Perdition, Coehn brothers movies, Christopher Guest movies
Favorite Music Chant, choral, classical, folk, Tom Waits, anything with violins, banjos, accordions, or shawms/zurnas, punk
Favorite Books St John Cassian, the Philokalia, Plato, Boethius, the Stoics, Beowulf, 16th- or 17th-century English poetry, Corpus Dionysiacum, Chesterton, Inklings, Dostoevsky, Iliad, Life's Little Deconstruction Book, Name of the Rose, Dracula, Confederacy of Dunces