Brian Charles Nixon is a television and radio host, author, minister, journalist, and former rock musician of the rock band, The Electra. He is married to his wife Melanie Nixon and has two sons, Cailan Nixon and Isaiah Nixon and one daughter, Sutherland Jaramillo. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Musical work
During his high school years in San Jose, California, Brian met Jeff Carlson and Chris Manak and formed the underground rock group, The Electra. Signed to Epithet/Americanon Records, The Electra recorded only one album, USAmerica, but went on to influence other musicians through the continued musical work of Chris Manak and Jeff Carlson's Stones Throw Records. The Electra are highlighted in the award-winning documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw. After leaving The Electra, Brian attended college and formed two other local bands, Canterbury and Widow's Mite. Widow's Mite was signed to the music label Hope Records, owned and operated by Rick Wakeman of the influential rock group, Yes. Brian Nixon's music project, The Beautiful Gallows, was nominated for the best Religious/Gospel recording for the New Mexico Music Awards in 2014.
Research
Brian Nixon has proposed the theory of Icon Numbers, a mathematical means by which God may structure and order the universe. His theory has connections to the thought of German scientist Dr. Peter Zöller-Greer. Brian Nixon has presented work for the Kalokagathic Argument From Beauty, an argument derived from Russian mathematician Pavel Florensky and the ontological argument as presented by Dr. Norman Geisler. The argument proposes that beauty can communicate God's being. The argument is presented as follows:
If beauty exists, it must be conjoined in a Necessary Being which cannot not exist;
Consequently, beauty, as an attribute of a Necessary Being, cannot not exist; it is actual.
Beauty exists; therefore, we must conceive of beauty as real, rooted in reality as an attribute of a Necessary Being as conveyed through creation.
Beauty is, therefore God exists.
Brian Nixon has written on Faux/Pseudo Modernism, a proposed worldview that may shape future philosophy. Nixon’s thoughts are related to philosopher Alan Kirby. As a visual artist, Brian Nixon's research and work is in avant-garde iconography, with connection to the thought and philosophy of Pavel Florensky. His other artwork is related to Japanese influenced Sumi-e art, concentrating on Pop influenced watercolors.
Journalism
Brian Nixon writes for ANS News, founded by British journalist Dan Wooding. Writing in a narrative form of journalism, Nixon covers stories as wide-ranging as Cormac McCarthy and Robert Redford to Daniel Dennett. Several of his articles were compiled in the book Tilt: Finding Christ in Culture, published by Cascade Books.
Prior to Brian's involvement with Calvary Chapel, Nixon was a licensed minister within the Church of the Brethren, active in Christian peacemaking. Brian is the founder of Calvary Chapel Education Association, established in 2004. Brian directed and produced a ten-part documentary interview with famed guitar makers, Pimentel and Sons, before the death of the founder, Lorenzo Pimentel. He is currently Director of Education in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, at Calvary of Albuquerque, where he lectures on church history. Brian Nixon and Skip Heitzig's children book, The Voyage of Brendan McCurdy, was a finalist for best Religious Book in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in 2018.
