A panel of McMurry University students presents the program on their trip to the Parliament of the World’s Religions for the November meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council. (Photo by Loretta Fulton) McMurry University chaplain, Marty CashBurless, middle in photo on right, joins students in presenting the November program for the Abilene Interfaith Council. Ten
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Dr. Sandra Hazelip, a world traveler, was honored Nov. 9 at Hillcrest Church of Christ for her numerous trips to one particular spot on the globe, Zambia. Hazelip and her good friend, Ellie Hamby, who spends part of the year each year helping with the Namwianga Zonal Health Center in Zambia, plan to go around the world in 80 days
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Looking for a different kind of Thanksgiving with the opportunity to make new friends? Aldersgate United Methodist Church is hosting an unusual Thanksgiving Day meal. It will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the church’s Open Door Community Garden, located at the corner of Amarillo and South 19th streets. Guests are asked to bring a dish to share. The church’s associate
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By NANCY PATRICK I enjoy Thanksgiving more than any other holiday. Its position between two of the most publicized holidays of the year—Halloween and Christmas—offers a chance to breathe and focus on something other than commercialism. Thinking about Thanksgiving actually makes me feel good. It reminds me of the plans for my fall wedding back in 1968. Enrolled in Hardin-Simmons
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By DANNY MINTON Frederick Langbridge died in 1923. The one thing that he left behind that has had a lasting impression is a short poem he wrote. It simply says: “Two men look through prison bars;One sees mud the other stars.” It’s a simple little poem with a powerful message. Some people are never happy. They are always looking at
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By LORETTA FULTON Jeff Childers got plenty of feedback from the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University–and that was before the lectures were even given. It’s no surprise, considering the title of the annual lecture series: “Friends and Drunks: Two Glimpses into the Social History of the Early Christians and Their World.” Childers joked that the feedback was in the form
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A panel of 10 McMurry University students, professors and the university chaplain will present the program Tuesday for the monthly meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council. Title of the presentation is “Interfatih Immersion: Learning Through Experience.” The panel will talk about connecting what they learned at the recent Parliament of the World’s Religions to interfaith work in West Texas. The
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