Musical Interlude: Star Wars on Strings

For all you children of the ’70s out there, this will be a trip down memory lane. And now I have this inexplicable urge to go buy a Coke…

An interlude from what, I don’t know, since I haven’t blogged in forever. But, here it is. If this doesn’t put you in the Christmas spirit, nothing will. Be sure to listen to the last note…you won’t be sorry.

From now to the end of the month the Musical Interludes here will have a Christmas theme. First up, via Dan Phillips comes this video of the Celtic group “Off Kilter” (get it?) playing Greensleeves/What Child is This. I saw these guys play once while at Epcot, and they are really good. Perhaps it is…

I have some issues with the movie Rio. I hated the entirely predictable glorification of Carnaval. I did not appreciate the unnecessary paeans to destructive alternate lifestyles. And it really bugged me that the Brazilian hero of the story only found his American female companion beautiful once she was decked out in the outlandish Carnaval…

Pastor Izaías is one of my colleagues here in São Luís–pastor of the First Baptist Church–and a very good friend. God has given him a talent for writing worship songs, and his daughter Abigail a talent for singing them. Here she sings one of her father’s pieces, entitled Quero te Adorar (I Want to Worship…