21 years ago this evening, at Youth Camp with South Main Baptist Church, I became a Christian. For a lot of people, I suppose, coming to see God as he truly is is a long process. For me, it happened rather quickly: realizing it was the thing to do. No hyper-emotion or [...]

The penultimate Snapecast ere the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, this episode focuses on the Snape/Hermione ’ship. Enjoy!
Jeff

Six days to the movie… Sixteen days to the book…
If you are a Harry Potter fan like I (or a Harry Potter fanatic like Rachael from Snapecast), you know what I am talking about. If you are not and have no clue to what I am referring, I refer you to my previous posts [...]

At right, the organ of Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church

 
The best photo I could get of the Chapel at the Villa de Matel Convent in Houston
Yeah, it’s been a while since my last update. I was shocked to see just how long it had been. Oh [...]

If you remember ’80s TV’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, you will appreciate this. This is the first in Unemployed Skeletor’s Blog Of Evil, and it’s the funniest thing I have seen in quite a while, and I’ve stayed up waaaay too late on a Saturday night watching some of [...]

More on the fabulous weekend that was very soon…
Jeff

The interior of Wells Cathedral with its dramatic interior buttressing.
This photo is taken from the Cathedral’s website at http://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/files/history/photo_nave.jpg
From 16-22 July of this year, the Adult Choir of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, in which I have been a staff singer for nigh-on-five years, will be the choir in residence at Wells Cathedral in [...]

…for my little half-brother, anyway. Ian and his bride-to-be, Randi, will be married in Shakespeare Garden in New York’s Central Park in a short ceremony on Saturday 19 May. Ian lived in that fair city for about three years, and it will be my first trip there.
Jeff takes Manhattan!

Come one and come all! The Bach Society will, this coming Sunday 6 May, give its last Vespers service of the 2006-2007 season. Look for me doing the tenor recitative and duet (with baritone Ryan Villaverde)!
May 6, 2007 • 5:00 p.m.
Bach Vespers
Bach: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal BWV 146
Eccard: Zu dieser österlichen [...]

One of the featured items in this month’s episode (and the reason why Rachael wanted to do this podcast in the first place)  is the Snarky Chapters segment on Spinner’s End, the 2nd chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  This is actually part 1 of this two-part segment, the 2nd part coming in [...]