Everyday Ministry shines the spotlight on those who try to stay out of it. They’re the ones who stay in the background, quietly doing the small things that make life better for others. They’re all around you. To nominate someone for an Everyday Ministry feature, please send information to editor@spiritofabilene.com. Include the name of the person being nominated, contact info,
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By Loretta Fulton Wesley Erickson, Director of Mission and Ministry at Hendrick Health, will speak on a topic he knows well at the Wednesday, Sept. 23, meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations. Erickson’s topic will be, “A Day in the Life of a Healthcare Chaplain.” The public is invited to the luncheon meeting, beginning at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at
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Local Catholic parishes will be hosting fall festivals, beginning Saturday, Sept. 26. Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 837 Jeanette St., will have a two-day festival Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26-27. Saturday’s events will be held 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday’s hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival will feature music, food booths, games, bingo, and a silent auction.
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The Abilene Interfaith Council invites the public to a screening of Fordson: Faith, Fasting, and Football, followed by a discussion led by Dr. Zach Ingle, a film studies scholar and professor of communications at Hardin-Simmons University. The screening will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at Unity Spiritual Living Center, 2842 Barrow St. Snacks will be provided. Admission is
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By Glenn Dromgoole Not every Sunday, but some Sundays, we stand together in church and recite the Apostles Creed. Every now and then, maybe, the Nicene Creed. And there are numerous other statements of faith, in various churches and affiliated groups. I found a good one online from the C.S. Lewis Foundation, for example And while those do speak to
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By Jim Nichols Barbara Brown Taylor is a wordsmith who can pack a sermon into an amazingly small number of keystrokes. In a short essay titled Life-Giving Fear, she wrote the following which I have paraphrased: “It is not a bad thing for us to feel the full fragility of our lives. It is not a bad thing for us
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By Danny Minton I stumbled across a conversation this week where people were discussing when they put up their Christmas trees. It may sound like a strange question almost one hundred days from Christmas, with Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays still on the horizon, but it was a serious back-and-forth between a few dozen people. I was surprised by how many
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury It wasn’t something he expected to find in his rural mail box. However, my Uncle Mort opened the envelope joyously; it was from his great nephew. He thought immediately about his kin’s spread deep in Arkansas. In the envelope was a fancy invitation equal to any he’d ever seen for weddings or graduation
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By Loretta Fulton McMurry and Abilene Christian universities set enrollment records while Hardin-Simmons University experienced enrollment growth, record-setting residence hall occupancy, and continued expansion in high-demand academic programs. McMurry welcomed 340 new full-time first-year students, the largest entering class in the university’s 103-year history. The historic class is part of McMurry’s fourth consecutive year of record enrollment, with total fall
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