About Me

  • About Me: Quasi-librarian

Books

  • Favorite Genres: Science Fiction, Detective Novels
  • Favorite Characters: Lord Peter Wimsey, Adam Dalgliesh, Miss Marple, Marvin (from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
  • Recent Reads: Scientists Confront Intellegent Design and Creationism; The Freedom of the Will, by J. R. Lucas; Rumpole Misbehaves; Beyond "Justification"; Fatal Revenant; Pontoon; Dawkin's God; A Sudden and Fearful Death; The Selfish Gene; To Defend and Betray; The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures; Good Omens; Basilica; The Whitechapel Conspiracy; Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar; Death in the Old Hotel; Seven Dials; Cardington Crescent; Belgrave Square; Perceiving God; Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus: Natural Theology in the High Middle Ages; The Cult of the Amateur; Metaphysics of Creation

Music

  • Favorite Genre: Early through Classical
  • Guilty Pleasure: Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)

College

  • School Name: Taylor University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1981
  • Attended: 1977 - 1981
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Philosophy of Religion

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Jimm
  • Religion: Episcopalian
  • Heroes: Thomas Aquinas, Augustine
  • Interests: Walking, Cycling, Reading
  • Expertise: None that I can tell
  • Occupation: Librarian
  • Industry: Education