(Originally written Feb. 6)

The Outbreak

This is the web site of the youth group of the church I attended in Lake Jackson, TX before I moved to Louisiana several years ago. The place always turned me off somewhat - it was always rather intense, rather "Jesus Freak" in its particular theology. Those of you who know me know that I don't go in for that sort of thing. I could write an essay on that alone, but thankfully Sean McMains spared me the trouble. -_^ (What Would Jesus Play? and Attack of the Precious Moments - and by the way, I *do* look at the Goldberg Variations as a way to practice my faith, but then again everything I do relates to music anyway.)

Anyway, I wanted to see what they were up to lately because I'll be visiting this weekend on my way to go look at Rice University in Houston. Imagine my horror when I viewed this web site and realized that *none of this* that they have up there is what I believe in doing. Oh, the essential tenets of Christianity are there, all right, but there's such an emphasis on mass evangelism and what I call "pop" Christianity that I almost can't bear to read it. I suppose three years at an *extremely* Anglican school has made me more orthodox than most.

Song of the Random Time Interval: "I'll Cover You," RENT
Item of the Random Time Interval: A-frame
Words of the Random Time Interval: Something eternal