“Writing on the Wall: Indigenous Rock Art in Central Texas” will be the topic for the Oct. 22 meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations.

The public is invited to hear Dr. Jeremy Elliott, professor of environmental literature at Abilene Christian University, talk about the stories that indigenous rock art tell. Elliott takes his students to Paint Rock to teach them that, “It’s not an inactive site. People have never quit praying here.”

The meeting will begin at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Brook Hollow Christian Church in the Woodhaven Shopping Center on South 14th Street, where Hobby Lobby is located. The church is on the east end of the shopping center. A $3 donation is requested for lunch. 

Dr. Jeremy Elliott

Elliott and his family live on the Callahan Divide. In addition to teaching at ACU, Elliott is the director of the Edwards Plateau Archeological Research Group. He directs collaborative educational archaeological excavations, working with elders from Coahuilteco, Comanche, and Lipan Apache communities to develop research questions and find ways to work together towards answers. These excavations proceed from the understanding that sites are living, and that human understanding of them is best shaped through reading them as parts of living traditions.