JFH Staff: Mark Rice

Mark Rice

Name: Mark Rice

Role At JfH: Review Writer / Podcast Co-host

Birthday: The Third Day of the Ninth Month in the Ninety-First Year of the Twentieth Century Anno Domini

Age: I have enough confidence in your mathematical abilities that you can calculate for yourself if you so desire...

E-mail: Staff Contact Form

Pets: Ruby the Hungarian Viszla

Car: One that gets me from Point A to Point B

Education: BS in Mathematics Education

Hobbies: Music, Movies, History, Theology, Competitive Sprinting, Physical Activity, Relaxing, Amassing Useless Trivia

Pet Peeves: Ever since becoming a teacher, my biggest pet peeve is excuses

Thing you MUST Know: Always be really nice to your teachers. They have it harder than you will ever know...

Guilty Pleasures: Being nostalgic (usually in the form of animation geared for much younger audiences than my current self)

Favorite Sports: Track & Field

Favorite TV Shows: "Classic" cartoons or 90's cartoons...

Favorite Movie: All-Time = Wall-E. I'm an avid movie watcher, but I greatly prefer movies that have survived the test of time... and Pixar movies...

Favorite Actors: All-Time = Jimmy Stewart. Next 5: Humphry Bogart, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Charlton Heston

Favorite Actresses: All-Time = Audrey Hepburn, Next 5: Ingrid Bergman, Sandra Bullock, Grace Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep

Favorite Books: The 66 that guide my life,The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, To Kill A Mockingbird and the Redwall series

Favorite Cartoon Characters: Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, The Warner Brothers (& The Warner Sister), Pinky & The Brain, Tigger, and the Peanuts gang

Favorite Bands: All-Time = Steven Curtis Chapman. The rest are here

Favorite Live Shows: Is it blasphemous for a music critic to never attend concerts?

Favorite Animal: Meerkats (this would definitely be my choice for an exotic pet)

Favorite Food: Honeycrisp Apple

Favorite Fast Food: I've never seen food race before, so I honestly can't say...

Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Honey Nut Cheerios

Favorite Drink: Without water, I'd be dead.

Favorite Candy: Nerds

Little-Known Super Power: An inordinate ability to learn trivia



John Reuben Reubonic	Hip-hop	4/5

Chris Sligh Mighty Roar / Healing Flood	Worship / Pop	3.5/5

Kerrie Roberts Boundless	Worship / Pop	2.5/5

The Digital Age Galaxies	Worship / Pop	3/5

Theocracy Ghost Ship	Progressive Power Metal	5/5

Remedy Drive Hope's Not Giving Up	Hip Hop	3.5/5

Heath McNease Who Knows? Who Cares?	Pop / Rock / Re-imagined	4.5/5

Skillet Unleashed	Rock	3.5/5

Hillary Scott Love Remains	Acoustic / Country / Pop	4.5/5

Adam Young RMS Titanic	Soundtrack	4/5

Steven Curtis Chapman Worship and Believe	Worship	3/5

Michael W. Smith Hymns II: Shine On Us	Hymns / Worship	4.5/5

The Ember Days Valitus	Indie / Alternative / Worship	4.5/5

Natalie Grant Be One	Contemporary / Pop	2.5/5

Sara Groves Floodplain	Folk / Pop / Acoustic	4/5

Andrew Peterson The Burning Edge of Dawn	Folk / Folk Pop	4.5/5

Tree63 Land	Pop / Rock	4/5

The City Harmonic We Are	Melodic Rock / Worship	3.5/5