If you wanna know more about Brian…

My beloved is Megan, and she and I now have 2 little ones!  That doesn’t count Maggie, our wannabe child. I’m a student at Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, CA (just outside of LA), studying theology and culture. I enjoy coffee, robust beer, engaging conversation, good dialogue, etc. As a follower of Jesus, I hope to be involved in a community of Jesus following my time at Fuller in a more encultured expression of faith. I.e., an emerging community or missional community. I long for a community that bears the mark of an economy and politik that is not based on free market capitalism, bipartisan democracy, and ethnocentric motives.

In addition, I enjoy good music, mostly of the folk/acoustic styles, with a bit of bluegrass thrown in. I’m a sucker for the wordsmith artisan. I play guitar, an expression of my creative side. I’m also an athlete, but I’ll let you decide what kind of an athlete if we meet on the pitch. I enjoy play, but would not be able to say how good I am! Too many other players of varying abilities out there for me to make an accurate judgment of myself.

I grew up in Hershey, PA, where my family still resides (except my brother and his family who are in Phoenix). I went to undergrad at California University of PA, worked at Penn State Beaver above Pittsburgh, and worked and lived around West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. My vocation has been with the Coalition for Christian Outreach, an organization that subcontracts its staff to churches or higher ed. institutions as liasion’s for said institutions working to communicate and live out the integration of Jesus into all areas of life.

If you’re curious as to where the name of the blog site came from, check out Bruce Cockburn’s song of the same name. It’s a narrative about the struggle to identify oneself through the means of materialism and the masks we wear for others. It leaves us trapped and wandering behind our own bars, waiting for the moment to be free again.