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2nd generation Taiwanese-American. Born in CA, grew up in the Bay Area and then St. Louis; went to school in LA. Currently living in central Illinois. Product development engineer. Former missionary/seminarian. Married with two kids.

English, Spanish

acoustic guitar (mostly worship or folky stuff), biking, birding, christian theology, family, fatherhood, generosity, hammered dulcimer, hiking, greek/hebrew, marriage, photography, preaching, reading, running, spanish, leading worship

Some random books I've read and enjoyed recently include The End Of Faith, Peace Like A River, Freakonomics, Nickel And Dimed, The World Is Flat, and The Corporation. I like most anything by C.S. Lewis (e.g. Perelandra, the Great Divorce, Pilgrim's Regress, and his poetry), Eugene Peterson (e.g. Working The Angles), Tolkien (e.g. LotR, The Silmarillion), Dallas Willard (e.g. Divine Conspiracy, Hearing God), and G.K. Chesterton (e.g. The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy). And Anne Lamott is a wonderful breath of air. I'm just now getting back into fiction, which is a good thing. Don't read as much theology as I used to, but have been influenced by Edwards (mainly via Piper), Wesley (mainly via Willard), Augustine (mainly via Sproul), and Calvin (finally, someone I've actually read). Nowadays, in a nonfiction vein, I'm frankly more likely to be found reading a book about business or contemporary culture/society (e.g. The Wal-Mart Effect, which I think offers a close, level-heade

LotR (esp Fellowship), Matrix (esp the 1st), Joy Luck Club, Aliens, As Good As It Gets, Royal Tennenbaums, Little Miss Sunshine, Dogville.

David Wilcox, Caedmon's Call, Over the Rhine, Bela Fleck, Allison Krauss, Nickel Creek, Rich Mullins, Pierce Pettis, Waterdeep, Norah Jones, Billy Joel, Jason Mraz, Maroon5, Aaron Copland, Matt Redman, 80s music in general. And I listen to a lot of NPR.

Heroes, LOST, 24, Alias (Seasons 1-2), BSG, CSI: Miami, Firefly, C-SPAN. Half my new book recommendations come from BookTV/ Book Notes/ AfterWords. Did I mention I was an NPR junkie?