music, kith/kin: Another recommendation from a friend. Enjoy! YouTube – The Hottest Cole Porter – Harry Reser plays Let’s Misbehave, 1928.
Davidson College, kudzu, goats, random, LOL, followup: Another take on the goats …
Runners on the cross-country trail at Davidson College found a furry surprise Saturday in woods once crawling with kudzu.
There in a clearing stood 30 goats in an area that looked freshly mowed.
But no mower had cut the nearly one-acre patch of ground.
The goats had done the job – eating as much as 20 pounds of kudzu per animal per day since they went to work last week.
“On Monday, this side of the trail looked exactly like that side,” said Charles Jolly, pointing at chest-high kudzu as far as you could see.
food-desserts, Jello, LOL: Upscale Jello? Looks fun!
Are you entertaining this 4th of July? I stumbled onto the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen over the weekend thanks to Mochatini. Talk about cool, Summertime F-U-N. These sophisticated Jello Shot Recipes are absolutely brilliant. The photographs are incredibly beautiful. The question is: should I make the cucumber-lime margarita, the Paloma Cocktail, or the Cosmopolitan jelly shots first?
faith and spirituality, Rob Bell, Love Wins, Southern Baptists: Do you struggle with this? Is it a black and white issue?
Southern Baptists say hell is an “eternal, conscious punishment” for those who do not accept Jesus, rebutting a controversial book from Michigan pastor Rob Bell that questions traditional views of hell.
Citing Bell’s book “Love Wins,” the resolution announced Wednesday urges Southern Baptists “to proclaim faithfully the depth and gravity of sin against a holy God, the reality of hell, and the salvation of sinners by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.”
Several leaders during the Baptists’ two-day meeting in Phoenix coupled warnings about hell with pleas for evangelism – especially in areas where there are no churches or missionaries.
“Is hell real? Is hell forever? Did God really say sinners would perish in eternal torment forever and ever?” asked pastor and author David Platt of Birmingham, Ala. “Oh, readers of Rob Bell and others like him, listen very carefully be very cautious, when anyone says, ‘Did God really say this?'”
Steph Curry, basketball, Davidson College, community involvement: I just like the kid …
Professional basketball player Stephen Curry will be the guest speaker at the first local Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) rally June 20.
Jay and Amy Poag in January helped start the Lake Norman chapter of the national FCA organization “in an effort to give the young athletes of our community a way to stay connected while furthering their Christian walk,” Jay Poag said in an email.
Over the last few months, the group has held monthly “workouts,” which are group community service activities. On Monday, the group plans its first “rally,” a community gathering for fun and fellowship.
Hosted by Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, the rally will include games, live music and food, and Stephen Curry will be the guest speaker.
“Our end result is to try and help build our youth into effective Christian role models so that they can take the spirit of our group back into their schools to form what we call ‘huddles,’” which are weekly meetings for bible study and prayer, Mr. Poag said in an email.
WANT TO GO?
The event will be held on the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church front lawn from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 20. Admission is free.
via Stephen Curry to speak at Christian Athletes rally Mon. | Sports.
teen pregnancy, college, Belmont Abbey College, Room at the Inn, firsts: … the nation’s first college-based maternity and after-care residential facility for single pregnant women …
It was a summer of romance and fear.
A bittersweet mix that cast a long shadow through the years. One that Debbie Capen, 37, of Charlotte will remember today at the groundbreaking for what is believed the nation’s first college-based maternity and after-care residential facility for single pregnant women.
The home is being built on the campus of Belmont Abbey College and will be run by the Charlotte-based Catholic nonprofit Room at the Inn, a safe haven for single pregnant women. The organization’s outreach programs and offices will remain in Charlotte.
During today’s ceremony, Capen will recall the summer she was a rising sophomore at Winthrop University and waiting tables at North Myrtle Beach restaurants.
A fling with a handsome beach service worker stirred images of sailing off together on his catamaran. But the dream faded when she became pregnant. Afraid to tell her mother and worried about the possibility of having to drop out of college, she couldn’t find an adult who understood.
via College maternity center is a first | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper.
Edward Lindsey, Atlanta Public Schools, kith/kin: Very bold and very controversial. But sometimes that is what is needed.
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) – On Monday, June 20th, the Atlanta Board of Education will hold another critical meeting. Among the agenda items this time: the new state law (SB 79), which sets up a process that could end with the ouster of the entire Board. Some sources have told WABE the Board could decide to challenge the new law, in one way or another. WABE’s Denis O’Hayer spoke with Rep. Ed Lindsey (R-Atlanta), who wrote the board review language into the new law. © Copyright 2011, WABE
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