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Kevin Vost
Kevin is happy to have the first box of his new book From Atheism to Catholicism (OSV)!
| 4marks URL: |
http://www.4marks.com/KevinVost |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Status: |
Married |
| Diocese: |
Diocese of Springfield in Illinois |
| Parish: |
St. Agnes |
| Address: |
IL
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| Email: |
kevin@drvost.com |
| Purpose: |
Friendship, Networking, Spiritual, Education |
| About Me: |
I'm a revert to Catholicism, the husband of a lovely wife for 24 years, the father of two sons, and the author of three books (with two more on the way). I'm a doctor of psychology in clinical psychology and I taught part-time at the university level for 13 years. |
| Activities: |
Most weekdays start with 4.3 mile run with running partner at 5:30 a.m. I then drag myself into work to supervise disability adjudicators by day, write books and enjoy life with my wife and sons in the evenings, lift weights once per week on Saturdays, serve as lector at our church now and then, and so on and so forth. |
| Interests: |
Thomistic, Aristotelian, and Stoic philosophy, Catholic theology, (HIT)high intensity strength training, distance running, Greek and Roman classics -- philosophy, history, and literature. |
Confirmation
Name: |
Paul |
| Hometown: |
Springfield, Illinois |
| Saints: |
St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Therese of Lisieux |
| Prayers: |
Pange, Lingua, Gloriosi; Adore Te Devote, Latens Deitas (St. Thomas) |
| Places: |
Rome, Assisi, home (no place like it.) |
| Books: |
The Summa Theologica, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, The Discourses of Epictetus, Seneca's Letters, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, The Imitation of Christ, anything by C.S. Lewis or G. K. Chesterton, and on and on. Fiction: One favorite is The Quiet Light by Louis de Wohl (a biography of St. Thomas Aquinas), a recent great read was Nicolas Prata's Angels in Iron. Also frightfully fond of all the incredible Wooster and Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. (Jeeves is my newest hero -- darn near the brains of an Aristotle or Aquinas in a gentleman's valet.) |
| Music / Groups: |
The symphonies and masses of Anton Bruckner, Beethoven, and Mozart -- Bach and Haydn's stuff too. I also like Gregorian chant, Celtic music, and my wife and I really enjoy Andrea Boccelli as well. I'm getting into contemporary Catholic music now -- The Priests are magnificent! |
| TV Shows: |
EWTN |
| Quotes: |
Now the love of our neighbor requires not only that we be our neighbor's well-wishers, but also his well-doers. St. Thomas Aquinas
As in the Olympic games, it is not the most beautiful and strongest who win the crown, but those who enter the combat. For from those come the victors, so it is those who act who win rightly what is noble and good in life. Aristotle
The ancients stole all of our great ideas. Mark Twain
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| Name: |
St. Agnes Parish Springfield, IL USA |
| My Role: |
Lector, Parishioner |
| Time Period: |
1961-01-01 to Present |
| Employer: |
State of Illinois Department of Human Services Springfield, IL USA |
| Position: |
Public Service Administrator |
| Description: |
This is my full-time job. I supervise a group of Disability Adjudicators who decide mental and physical disability claims for the Social Security Administration. |
| Time Period: |
1984-07-01 to Present |
| Employer: |
Sophia Institute Press Manchester, NH USA |
| Position: |
Author |
| Description: |
I have written two books for Sophia -- Memorize the Faith! and Fit for Eternal Life.
A third to be called Unearthing Your Ten Talents is in the works (rough draft a fait accompli) and will hopefully be released in 2009. (I actually do the work from home, of course.) Please check out my web site at www.drvost.com for more on the books. |
| Time Period: |
2004-12-01 to Present |
| Employer: |
University of Illinois at Springfield Springfield, IL |
| Position: |
Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Description: |
I taught one or two undergraduate or graduate level courses each semester for the psychology and gerontology departments. |
| Time Period: |
1994-01-01 to 2004-05-01 |
| Graduate School: |
Sangamon State University — Class of 1990 |
| Concentration 1: |
General Psychology (M.A.) |
| Graduate School: |
Adler School of Professional Psychology — Class of 1997 |
| Concentration 1: |
Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) |
| Concentration 2: |
Neuropsychology |
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