A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, Aug. 26, for Ray Hildebrand, 82, a graduate of Howard Payne University who composed and sang the pop hit of the 1960s, “Hey, Paula.” Hildebrand died following a year-long illness. The Celebration of Life will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Nall Avenue Baptist Church in Prairie Village, Kansas, located near Kansas
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Abilene is filled with houses of worship but most Abilenians are familiar with the inside of only a handful. A periodic feature in Spirit of Abilene will give you an “Insider’s View” of some of those places you may have driven by many times but never entered. By LORETTA FULTON Name: St. Vincent Pallotti Catholic ChurchLocation: 2525 Westview DrivePhone: 672-1794Online:
Read moreConnor Mullins, Student Editorial Assistant, ACU Singer-songwriter and Abilene Christian University alumnus Aaron Watson will headline a concert with Jenna Paulette at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, in Moody Coliseum as one of the premiere events of Wildcat Week, ACU’s official welcoming and orientation program for incoming students. Tickets to the concert are available to the public now, and ACU
Read moreA presentation on Men of Nehemiah empowerment ministry and ways to help will be the program for the August meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations. The meeting, which is open to the public, begins at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, in the dining room at First Baptist Church. Lunch is $3. Come through the south entrance to the dining
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By JIM NICHOLS The university purchasing office occasionally phoned me to question some purchase order from the Biology Department. They were not suspicious as much as they were curious. Why would we order a dozen pig hearts? Five dozen meal worms? Owl pellets? And what exactly are owl pellets? It made for interesting conversations with the purchasing office. With all
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON I once heard the fable of an eagle who was envious of another larger eagle who could fly much higher than he could. The only way to be the best eagle again was to have the larger eagle killed. So, one day, the eagle went to a bow hunter and showed him the grand prize he could
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By LORETTA FULTON Construction and instruction will be going on at the same time when students return Monday, Aug. 28, for fall classes at Abilene’s three church-affiliated universities. Classes and opening chapel services, along with the sounds of power tools and heavy equipment, await students at United Methodist-affiliated McMurry University, Baptist affiliated Hardin-Simmons University, and Churches of Christ-affiliated Abilene Christian
Read moreDr. H. Taylor Rankin, a longtime biology professor at Hardin-Simmons University, died Aug. 11 at age 89. A message from HSU President Eric Bruntmyer and a link to the full obituary follow. “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. H. Taylor Rankin, age 89, who died on August 11, 2023 in Abilene. A memorial service will
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Dr. Robert Ellis recently learned something about patience as he waited his turn to have blood drawn for routine lab work. His lesson came from watching a mother and her daughter waiting to hear their names called. Ellis, retired dean of Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University, shared that lesson in a beautifully written article for his blog, “An
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