Pastor Ed Backell is a Washington state native, and has taught for 40 years in churches in Oregon, Washington and Nebraska, currently in Spokane Valley, WA. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada with various musical groups. As a youth minister, he specialized in creating teen performance groups that helped students use their gifts and talents to explore and share their own faith. He holds an M. Div. from Bethel Seminary in St Paul, MN, as well as an M. A. in Ministry. Ed and his wife Jami (originally from Ephrata, WA), his bride of 34+ years, have been involved in fandom for many years. They were very involved with the I.S.S. Mystery, a Mirror Universe Star Trek club based in Seattle, and even wrote a Trek themed cookbook called Mysterious Foods. They have three married daughters, and two grandchildren. The entire family have competed in the costume contests at RadCon, and have done well for themselves.
Sessions in which Pastor Ed Backell participates
Friday 15 February, 2019
Sunday 17 February, 2019
Friday 14 February, 2020
Sunday 16 February, 2020
Friday 16 February, 2024
Filk= the singing of songs about fantasy and science fictionKaraoke= the singing of songs with words projected for youFilkeoke= sing songs about fantasy, science fiction, anime... all with the words projected for you! Be a star singing about Star Wars! Live your musical fantasy by singing about Lord of the Rings! Gather for a magical time as you sing about Magic the Gathering! All kinds of specialty music available to sing, as well as 280,000 songs from which you can choose! youtube.c...
Saturday 17 February, 2024
Filk= the singing of songs about fantasy and science fictionKaraoke= the singing of songs with words projected for youFilkeoke= sing songs about fantasy, science fiction, anime... all with the words projected for you! Be a star singing about Star Wars! Live your musical fantasy by singing about Lord of the Rings! Gather for a magical time as you sing about Magic the Gathering! All kinds of specialty music available to sing, as well as 280,000 songs from which you can choose! youtube.c...
Sunday 18 February, 2024
The Babylon 5 episode "Parliament of Dreams" featured a week-long festival of all of the major religions represented on the space station. When it was time to explain the religious belief of Earth, a collection of people of various faith traditions made themselves available to share from their own traditions.Let us come together and enact a similar situation: we will share from our various faith traditions with each other. Past years have explored the topics of light, sound, and expres...