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Friday, January 10, 2003

Being Pragnostic

Randy found this bit about disagreement. I sometimes refer to myself as a "pragnostic." In other words, I'm pragmatically agnostic. On certain controversial topics and issues that I don't have any great answers on, I choose not to issue a dogmatic statement or simply follow the party line (denominationally speaking). I think there are times that we should just shut up and work out an issue with God and our conscience. There's enough "fear and trembling" to be had just doing that. I don't always need to be right or let everyone else know that I'm right.

I think that if we are to achieve any measure of unity in the body of Christ it will come only from a unified seeking after God's heart and a mutual recognition of how darkly we see through the glass when it comes to the finer points of doctrine. .

Why does every preacher need to have an answer for every possible question? Isn't there a point where we can just say, "I don't know?"

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No Reinventing Today

I've been trying to leverage an application to do my web publishing. Radio is that application. The point is that even though I am a programmer, I am also an employee, a husband, and a human being that doesn't have enough time to reinvent this particular wheel. So, at most, I may try to come up with some alternate content modules to customize what I can display with Radio and some administration tools to control those components. But, for now, I don't see any point in trying to reproduce an entire content management system1

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Now, How Hard Was That?

Actually, this has been some learning curve. Slowly, but surely. The Discreet Radio Theme (Green) had one critical flaw. The desktop posting page was ill-formatted. I changed the #desktopWebsiteTemplate.txt in C:Program FilesRadio UserLandwww. I would list the contents here, but I'm still learning how to overcome the pitfalls of the WYSIWYG editor. It doesn't seem to like my <PRE></PRE> blocks.

      <div class="blogbody">
        <table border='0'>
          <tr>
            <td colspan='2'>
              <%radio.macros.editorsOnlyMenu ()%>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td valign='top'>
              <%radio.macros.weblogEditBox ()%>
              <%radio.macros.weblogRecentPosts ()%>
            </td>
            <td valign='top'>
              <div class="calendar">
                <p align="center"><%radio.weblog.drawcalendar ()%></p><br>
                <%radio.macros.cloudLinks ()%>
                <%radio.macros.statusCenter ()%>
                <%radio.macros.supportCenter ()%>
                </div>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        <p class="footer">
          This Page was last update: <%radio.macros.getLastUpdate ()%><br>
          Copyright <%year%> <%authorName%><br>
          Theme Design by <a href="http://www.bryanbell.com">Bryan Bell</a><br>
          <br>
          <%radioBadge%> <%radio.macros.xmlCoffeeMug ()%> <%rssLink%> <%radio.macros.mailTo ()%><br clear="right">
           </p>
        </div>
      </div>

There's nothing like a good table when nothing else will do. Ha! Take that!

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