Greetings and salutations! My hobbies and interests are: Jogging; swimming; boating; golf; travel; guitar playing and singing (folk, jazz, rock); biking; playing with my dog; movie going; book collecting; participating in a few book clubs; reading great works of fiction (e.g., M. Cervantes, William Thackeray, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, Faulkner, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald,) good current novels (Updike, Russell Banks, John Irving, Don DeLillo) history (American Civil War, Rome, Spain, Greece, European Battles), biography (e.g., Washington, Lincoln, Franklin), some science fiction (Philip K. Dick, R. Bradbury, K. Vonnegut, W. Gibson, R. Silverberg) and mysteries (D. Sayers, A. Christie, A. C. Doyle, G. Greene), fantasy (C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, G. MacDonald), philosophy (S. Kierkegaard, Thomas Reid, A. Platinga), and theology (Luther, K. Barth, Bonhoeffer, W. Brueggemann, N. T. Wright); attended several times an annual weekend retreat that follows the spiritual exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. I have a Ph.D. in biblical literature and have taught and published in my field. I currently sell academic and general trade books for a publishing company and have more time to read for fun that I did as a college professor.