Name: Jared Wilson
Hometown: Houston, TX (adopted hometown -- like George Bush, Sr.)
Place of birth: Brownsville, TX
Family stats: wife, Becky. daughters, six-year-old Macy and four-year-old Grace.
Occupation: freelance writer, non-staff minister, agented novelist (as yet unpublished), and stay-at-home dad. would love for someone to pay me for doing any of these things someday.
Age: 32
Denomination: was raised Southern Baptist, but currently attend a non-denominational, evangelical church.
Calvinist or Arminian: Five-Point Calvinist
Eschatology: My eschatology has been in flux for several years. I'd probably describe myself these days as a post-tribulational amillennialist.
Favorite quote: "If, thinking of your frailty, you hold yourselves cheap, value yourselves by the price that was paid for you." -- St. Augustine
Favorite movie: CASABLANCA
Favorite book: Is the Bible too obvious? Anything by C.S. Lewis, Eugene Peterson, Paul Auster, N.T. Wright's stuff on Jesus and the Gospels, John Piper, Gary Thomas, John Ortberg, D.A. Carson. John Updike's Rabbit novels. Graham Greene's The End of the Affair.
Nomination for honorary thinkling: My mentor-pastor Mike Ayers
Favorite author: non-fiction -- Lewis; D.A. Carson; N.T. Wright; Dallas Willard; Alister McGrath.
fiction/poetry -- Lewis; Paul Auster; Chesterton; T.S. Eliot; J.R.R. Tolkien; Stephen King; Mark Twain; Arturo Perez-Reverte; John Updike.
Favorite ice cream flavor: cookies n' cream
Style of music: just about everything, but prefer singer-songwriter stuff regardless of genre
Best artist: U2, King's X, Rich Mullins, Charlie Peacock, The Beatles, Caedmon's Call, Galactic Cowboys, Willie Nelson, The 77's, The Lost Dogs, Andrew Peterson, The Prayer Chain, Poor Old Lu
Worst artist: k.d. lang, Rebecca St. James
Pet Peeve: bad driving, poor spelling, atheism, people who don't like U2
First Car: '85 Buick Skylark
Childhood Memory: being made fun of for stuttering (thankfully, I have escaped this former impediment)
Testimony: said "the prayer" at age 4, but didn't really mean it 'til age 12. though I hate to admit it, it was pretribulational propaganda that "scared the hell out of me." I guess it's good for something.
Which muppet most represents me: Kermit or Scooter
Best president: George Washington
Unusual Fact: how about dirty little secret? I am secretly very prideful and hate not to be recognized when I do something well, but I get very embarassed and feel guilty when someone actually does recognize that I did something well. Weird, huh?
Area of Expertise: among humans in general, very little. among the Thinklings, I guess it would be literature and/or film.
Superpower: super-neuroses. heightened sense of grammatical correctness.
Thinkling title: The Hub of the Thinkling Wheel
Nickname: Rod
Thinkling role: The Writer and Critic
Education: B.A. in English. (Minor: Religious Studies)
Last Good Book Read: I read so many there are too many good ones to mention.
Last Good Movie Seen: 3:10 To Yuma