Where you live: Woodstock, Vermont
What you do as a vocation or avocation? I have worked in book publishing for 20 years. Since 2004, I’ve been the associate publisher at Paraclete Press. My avocation doesn’t wander far from my vocation (how I wish I could say that I do something more outrageously interesting!): I’m a writer of books, articles, blogs, and many other things. I write.
Your two favorite books: That’s impossible to answer, so I will answer as if you asked me what are my two favorite books this year. Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines
, and Jack Gilbert’s new book of poems, The Dance Most of All
.Your two favorite songs: I’ve been singing old Carpenters favorites
to my baby in utero. Either those, or The Smiths
.Why you are interested in spirituality? Because I can’t shake God. Spirituality is everything that gives life meaning.
Your favorite quote: Again, there can’t possibly be only one. But I’ll give you this one for sure: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." (H.P. Lovecraft)
Your favorite web sites: I spend a lot of time on The Huffington Post, where I blog on religion, Facebook, and The New Yorker, because I allowed by subscription to lapse.
Your hero? Paul Sabatier, the French Protestant who wrote the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi.
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn? How to love my neighbor as myself.
A place in the world where you feel spiritually "connected?" Now, that’s the easiest question of all. Not the woods (although they are great on snowshoes in January). I’m a contemplative sort, but not in solitude. Put me in the middle of a crowd of people, preferably strangers.
Editor's Note: Jon blogs here: www.kingjamesbiblegeek.
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