October 2007 - Posts

K2 Theme, WP 2.3.1 and IE6: Bad
In the two or three column version of K2 and Wordpress 2.3.1,  IE6 hangs and won’t let go until you kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Del End Process in Task manager.  Someone using IE6,  which I no longer run at home,  pointed this out to me.   I know it’s K2 also because choosing another theme removes the [...]

Posted 10-31-2007 2:21 PM by Theoblogical

About Doing No Harm
Recently someone told me he was in a roomful of “do-gooders.” From the way he pronounced the word it was clear he found these folks infected with a strain of naivete that was outside the “real” world. I was intrigued a few years ago to hear a politician attack “liberal do-gooders” and deride a piece of [...]

Posted 10-31-2007 9:04 AM by Perspectives

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COMMENTARY: Making college degree possible for 'farm boy'
Bill Roughton shares how his life changed because a college president "needed a student who could drive a tractor."

Posted 10-31-2007 9:04 AM by UMR Communications Headlines

WESLEYAN WISDOM: High Point University has phenomenal story
Throughout its history, High Point University has experienced miracles. Donald Haynes shares the latest one, a rebirth of the institution.

Posted 10-31-2007 9:04 AM by UMR Communications Headlines

our great pumpkin
erin & i spent last night prepping our front porch and carving our, starting to be, traditional pumpkin for halloween. this years pumpkin is an old school street lantern. we tried some other designs, but they just didn't fit onto...

Posted 10-31-2007 8:58 AM by Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd

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busy time
it's been a busy time.. wish i could even form a thought let alone write. here is a run down of things in my life, should you care... and you are not named "mom" ("nana" for the little kids) monday,...

Posted 10-30-2007 5:38 PM by Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd

Who are voting for? Who should you be voting for?
I was doing some reading on the web the other day, trying to figure out what kind of impact Stephen Colbert is having on the polls so far, which is an interesting topic in itself. But in my searching, I came across this tool from Select Smart, which allows you to respond to your views on many topics, and rate the importance of those topics, and then it will tell you who you should be voting for.

I found this intriguing because I'm not always sure we're committed to voting for the person who actually supports what we want to see. There's a lot of reasons that might be the case, some more and less sensible! I can tell you that I wasn't surprised by who this quiz said I most agreed with, but that I'll most likely be voting for the candidate who showed up 5th on my list. Why? Electability. The candidate with whom I'm most in sync I doubt could get elected.

How about you? Do your results match your actual voting intentions?

Posted 10-30-2007 4:12 PM by bethquick.com

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Encouraging young clergy hopefuls
An event to help young people discern a call to ministry means even more when it's followed by continued contact and encouragement. Vicki Brown has the story of how EXPLORATION 2006, held nearly a year ago, is still having an impact.

Posted 10-30-2007 9:02 AM by UMR Communications Headlines

Kentucky Conference wins lawsuit
The board of the Good Samaritan Foundation has lost the legal battle with the Kentucky Annual Conference over proceeds from the sale of its hospital. The decision upholds the long-standing United Methodist trust clause regarding church property.

Posted 10-30-2007 9:01 AM by UMR Communications Headlines

Understanding Evangelicalism in 2007
For the conservative Christian leadership, what is most worrisome about the evangelical disappointment with President Bush is that it coincides with a widening philosophical rift. Ever since they broke with the mainline Protestant churches nearly 100 years ago, the hallmark of evangelicals theology has been a vision of modern society as a sinking ship, sliding [...]

Posted 10-29-2007 11:31 PM by Only Wonder Understands

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Arrests made in pizzeria killings
Jason Bobo comes from a good family, and lived in Nashville the past couple of years hoping to work in law enforcement, according to his sister, Kiana Bobo, of Memphis.But Monday, police arrested Jason Bobo, 21, and charged him with the execution-style slayings of two employees at Bellacino’s Pizza & Grinders, a west Nashville restaurant [...]

Posted 10-29-2007 11:14 PM by Only Wonder Understands

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Charge Conference 2007
We completed on annual Charge Conference for 2007 this past Sunday. I won’t go into much detail here, but thought that some might like to see the materials that we submit every year (it is generally a public record, so anyone has access to them). Click here to download our 2007 Charge Conference book in [...]

Posted 10-29-2007 10:18 PM by Only Wonder Understands

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Responding to The Golden Compass
In the past couple of days, I received several e-mails that go something like this: Warning to the parents, grandparents, kids and grandkids!   The Golden Compass, a movie coming out 7 December 2007 is a children’s movie based on a series of books with anti-religious themes written by Phillip Pullman, a Proud athiest.  The [...]

Posted 10-29-2007 2:22 PM by Only Wonder Understands

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Remembering the 70’s again…
Now playing: Jerry Douglas - A Remark You Made Back before there was Jay the fat preacher (the force behind the empire that is Only Wonder Understands) and even before there was Jay the Methodist technogeek of General Conference fame, there was Jay the fat geeky sound guy. That goes a long way back . . [...]

Posted 10-29-2007 12:37 PM by Only Wonder Understands

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trinity videos
don, whom i got to hang with at the emergingumc thingy, does film work when he is not church planting. he has some great stories with that part of his narrative. coming to today, he is has put online some...

Posted 10-29-2007 12:19 AM by Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd

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