THE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury It was a rainy Saturday morning in the thicket where live my Uncle Mort and Aunt Maude. They got up early to go outside, eager to “feel” the soaking of rain on their yard’s crusty soil, and to thank The Almighty for ending a dry spell when there’d been nary a drop of rain
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Habitat for Humanity St. Ann ProjectHighland Church of Christ, in partnership with Habitat of Humanity Abilene, has committed to sponsoring the first three of the planned 11 houses for low to moderate income families on land that was formerly home to St. Ann Hospital. Rosten Callarman, executive director of Habitat for Humanity Abilene, said other individuals or groups are being
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A cultural anthropologist who is a professor at the Perkins School of Theology at SMU, will be guest speaker for the Monk-Stamey Lecture Series at McMurry University Oct. 12-13. Dr. Harold Recinos is Professor of Church and Society at Perkins. He led a group of McMurry students on a Spiritual Formation Pilgrimage to El Salvador in May through the university’s
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Christian Service Center will host its sixth annual Be a Good Neighbor event on Thursday, Oct. 8, at the center, 3185 North 10th St. Hours are 8:3 a.m. to noon. Purpose of the event is to help people discover resources that can change their lives, with more than 45 area agencies providing information about various services, including job-seeker assistance, rent assistance,
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By Danny Minton No, the title is not the Tinkerbell that comes to people’s minds when the word is mentioned. That Tinker Bell was the fairy in J.M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan. Neither was it the Tinkerbell in Walt Disney’s version of the play. The Tinkerbelle in the title was a 13.5-foot Old Town “Whitecap” wooden sailboat. Today it is
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By Jim Nichols The veterinarian’s waiting room contained the predictable collection of people and animals. Most were well-behaved (people and animals); a few were anxious, but the noise level was tolerable. On one wall was a bulletin board with a half-dozen messages pinned on it. One index card read: LOST CAT Lost Cat. Gray and white color. Left ear mostly
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By Glenn Dromgoole In my younger days, I played a lot of 42. Not so much in recent years, although I bet I could still make a 31 bid. One of my roommates in college pretty much “majored” in 42. He played it a lot more than he studied. Well, in all honesty, so did I. But he flunked out,
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury Members of Dallas’ First Assembly of God Church could hardly have realized what a dynamic duo they called to lead them beginning in February 1998. Right alongside Rev. Thomas (Tom) Myers McMahan was the former Linda Diane Featherston. Actually, her credentials, zeal and commitment were equal to his, and their joint bond in
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St. Paul and McMurry connectionsDr. J.W Hunt, founder and first president of McMurry College, now a university, was appointed pastor of St. Paul on June 29, 1914, after serving several smaller churches. Two years later, in the summer of 1916, Dr. Hunt was named president of Stamford College, a school started by area Methodists and supported by Methodists from all
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