About the author

Yes, you probably got here from the link on my commercial web site. Or perhaps you were furnished with the link in some other way. Well...  since you're here, I should probably tell you a little about me.

I am 41 years old, married to Drema with two children, Brandon and Hannah. I've been working on computer hardware since 1993 and teaching others about computers since 1997. I repair and support PCs for customers and clients in my local region as proprietor of Greenfield Technologies

I grew up on a dairy farm and was involved in the dairy industry for much of my life. I said goodbye to that in March of 1999. In addition to teaching about, and fixing computers, I also am pastor of the Hillcrest Charge UMC in Huntingdon County, PA. --Sermons.htm. I am a certified candidate for ministry in the United Methodist Church. 

My Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP. I enjoy reading, walks with my family, bicycling and listening to music. I'm presently also pursuing a BS in Information Sciences at ACCIS.

 mike@firstthings.net

The following is a partial reading list (authors names only) that will give the curious a window into some of the sources for my thoughts, (the list excludes, among others, a great many whom I have read only by way of various anthologies I own):

Christian Apologetics

Ravi Zacharias
Josh McDowell
Norman Geisler
Francis Shaeffer
Josh McDowell

Classics

Milton
Augustine
John Bunyan
Pascal
Edgar Allan Poe
Rudolf Otto

Science Fiction/Fantasy

Ray Bradbury
Rober Heinlein
Isaac Asimov

History

Karen Armstrong

Christian Life and Theology

John Polkinghorne (yes, the physicist)
Phillip Yancey
Henry Blackaby
Bruce Wilkinson
Kay Arthur
A.W. Tozer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Abraham  Joshua Heschel
C. S. Lewis
John Shelby Spong
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Os Guinness
Thomas C. Oden
Richard Taylor
John W. Montgomery
R. C. Sproul
Gary Freese
John Eldredge
Elaine Pagels
Rudolf Otto

Psychology

Carl Jung
M. Scott Peck
William James
Sigmund Freud
Murray Stein

Anti-Theology

William Hamilton
Thomas J. J. Altizer

Science/Physics

Stephen Hawking
Roger Penrose
John A. Wheeler
Brian Greene
Carl Sagan
Paul Davies

Biography

Claire Dunne (of Carl Jung)
Carl Jung (autobiobraphy

Miscellaneous

William Poundstone
Charles Williams
Oswald Spengler
Daisetz T. Suzuki

Verse

Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot

Mythology

Joseph Campbell