THE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury It would be daunting for researchers half his age, but it didn’t stop Dr. Ray Van Cleef from reconnecting with his baseball players from six decades ago. The longtime Texas community college administrator couldn’t resist trying. Late in 2022, the search began. At age 94, he employed the usual communications efforts–some of them
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An informational Zoom meeting for the summer Racial Healing of America Revival and Bus Tour will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 30. Signup information is pasted below. The tour is sponsored by the ACU Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action. Dates of the tour are July 9-17, 2023. The Racial Healing of America Revival and
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A new center in Abilene Christian University’s Brown Library will honor Landon Saunders, longtime Church of Christ minister. The kick-off of fundraising for the Landon Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing was announced at the annual Friends of ACU Library dinner April 19. The new center has a mission to promote conversation and reflection upon the primacy of joy
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Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, even as their share among Latino adults has steadily declined over the past decade, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys. By contrast, the share of Latinos who identify as Protestants – including evangelical Protestants – has been relatively stable, while the percentage who are
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McMurry University will honor alumni who have made a significant difference in their communities at the Night of Distinction dinner Friday, April 28. Among the honoree is the Rev. Helen Neinast, Class of 1975, who received the Outstanding Alumni Award in Religious & Spiritual Life. Click here to read about all the honorees.
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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. Mark’s Episcopal ChurchLOCATION: River Oaks Shopping Center, South
Read moreDr. Jonathan Hill, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will present a lecture on the intersection of faith and science April 25. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. at Highland Church of Christ. It is sponsored by the Office of Research
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By JIM NICHOLS The names are made up, but the story is common. David’s father, Ralph, was seriously ill. Ralph had a constellation of physical problems and he had been hospitalized for at least two weeks this time, growing weaker by the day. It seemed to everyone that this would probably be his last stay. Ralph certainly did not lack
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON As strange as it may sound, or maybe I should say morbid, I find cemeteries interesting places to visit. As I walk through one, I think of the lives that must have been lived by those buried beneath the six feet of soil and grass. Sometimes I stop and pause as I read one where the dates
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