BTW. if you own XO stock, dump it. They're hopeless, with clueless, unempowered customer service people. These guys are unlikely to survive... expensive service that's bad...
Comments [ ] 7:26:50 PM    

Main advantages should be much better response times: www.gulker.com is slow for people using broadband connections (like our new 3 mbps Comcast ADSL line), and our vendor, XO, won't match SBC and other competitors' rates (XO charges $150 month/ SBC wants $54).

I'd be happy to give SBC a try (especially for $100/month savings), but we'd still be on a slow link - we're just too far from the switch to get fast DSL service. I'd like to use more pictures and multimedia in the future, so we're going to try hosting www.gulker.com and related domains on an Xserve on a fast network at Server Logistics. Still not sure how I'll migrate the comments server...
Comments [ ] 8:46:28 AM    

And, the Foundation's music is available on iTunes! 2 volumes of Songs from the Roots of America are available for $9.99 each, with more than 20 songs per album. Artists like Whistling Britches Thompson, Cootie Stark, Willa Mae Buckner and Beverly "Guitar" Watkins can't be found anywhere else - real deal blues performed by living artists. Highly recommended... I bought 'em both...
Comments [ ] 8:40:12 AM    

The reference is to the current controversy in the Methodist Church. Bretheren in Christ, do we not see the comparison? Some Methodists supported slavery, upon a time. Had those people spent the time to ask Christ, in their prayers, what their path forward should be?

Please, if you feel strongly that homosexuality is somehow "wrong", ask yourself the same question, and pray. Those who supported slavery, did they walk in Christ's footsteps? Do you who now deny children of God, walk in Christ's footsteps?
Comments [ ] 9:29:41 PM    

Thank you. The dialog has been welcome.

But, I keep coming back to a basic tension. During the 60s, when some groups cited religion as a justification for racial discrimination, I came to the conclusion that you can't be a racist and truly be a Christian: as Martin Luther King famously said "It's a strange thing, when people want to justify a prejudice, they turn to religion."

So, I ask my fellow Christians, do you really believe that Jesus calls us to discriminate against brothers and sisters who happen to be gay? Isn't the example of Christ's life one of love for all, even the most wretched among us? No matter where you come down on the issue of the science of being gay and lesbian (the 'nature or nurture' argument), if you are a Christian, are you not called to try to understand, and failing that, to love? It seems to me that, if one is truly a Christian, the default has to be understanding and tolerance, not prejudice and rejection...
Comments [ ] 11:41:05 AM    

Here's a timeline of events surrounding the closure of author John Gray's alma mater Columbia Pacific University by the California's Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.

After 4 years of law suits and appeals, Columbia Pacific was shut down in 2000 only to reappear in 2002 (according to degree.net) as Columbia Commonwealth University, first in Montana and now in Wyoming, where the school claims "recognition" by the State of Wyoming. Stranger and stranger...
Comments [ ] 1:16:46 PM    

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