CURRENT MISSION

filling the world with music and theology and converstation one drum hit at a time

ABOUT ME

Currently a chaplain resident at the local medical center. Drummer with a folk rock band. Writer and reader of poetry.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a Christian. I live, hopefully, most of the time with a mind to honor God and my fellow humans. I'm not perfect at that all the time.

I appreciate the Benedictine way which is one of humility and hospitality, thus I'm making this move to offering up my couch.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Fully.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Still pending... Actually, there was this one time a friend who is a CS vet brought four folks traveling from the Rainbow Festival on the Appalachian Trail to a birthday party. They certainly made an impact on the evening.

Interests

Music, Drums, Linocut Printmaking, Poetry, Theology, Counseling, Psychotherapy

• writing
• poetry
• festivals
• partying
• traveling
• music
• drums
• divinity

Music, Movies, and Books

I play in a band called this mountain (http://www.facebook.com/thismountain). Some musical acts I appreciate: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, My Morning Jacket, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Roots, Hey Marseilles, and quite a number of others.

Movies: The Believer, Waking Life, Daren Aranofsky films. While a pacifist, I take some guilty pleasure in the comic book movie genre.

Literature: Dostoyevsky, Scott Cairns, Margaret Atwood, Jean Vanier, St. Gregory the Theologian...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once, when I was 6, I had a broken leg and a big cast on it. My grandparents took me to the local children's zoo. There was a place for gibbon monkeys. My last name is Gibbens. There was a gibbon monkey who had a broken leg and a cast on it. I've liked monkeys ever since.

Teach, Learn, Share

The role of theology in hospitality. Reconsideration of the myth of religious violence.