By LORETTA FULTON During March, which is Women’s History Month, Spirit of Abilene will feature posts from contributors about women of spiritual influence in the Bible, in their personal lives, and from history. Below is a story I wrote for the Abilene Reporter-News for Women’s History Month in 2016. It is about a woman who was a giant in the
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By DANNY MINTON I’m a big Dallas Cowboy fan. I have been since Eddie LeBaron was a quarterback and as a junior high football player, I could get end zone tickets for 50 cents each at the Cotton Bowl. At halftime, we’d move on over to the 30-yard line since Dallas didn’t always draw big crowds in 1960. I was
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By LORETTA FULTON On Feb. 11, President Trump was in El Paso to rally support for a wall separating Mexico and the United States. On Feb. 22, Anyra Cano, a native of El Paso, spoke about bridges, specifically one that she fondly recalls traveling over every week to visit with her father’s relatives in Juarez. Trumps speech was political; Cano’s
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Hebrews 4: 9-11 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. By LORETTA FULTON Normally, Friday and Saturday are days off
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By LORETTA FULTON “Don’t believe the lies,” Hardin-Simmons University President Eric Bruntmyer said during the Texas Baptist Women in Ministry Conference held Feb. 22 at HSU’s Logsdon Seminary. The lies he referred to are about the role of women in society and in ministry, specifically in Baptist ministry. If Ellen Di Giosia had listened to the lies, she wouldn’t be
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The Abilene Police Department, in conjunction with the city’s faith-based community, is hosting a Community Conversation to Address Domestic Violence 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday. Anyone interested is invited to attend the meeting at Beltway Park North Campus, 2850 Highway 351. The event is free and registration is not required. The informational session will be led by the police department. Some topics
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The Rev. Iziar Lankford, 74, retired at the end of December and his church, Southwest Drive Community United Methodist Church, merged with St. Paul UMC. Lankford will continue the “soup kitchen” he operates at Southwest Drive until the building sells or is put to some other use. Even then, he will continue his Tuesday meal ministry, which features a “from
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(Editor’s Note: Dr. Don Newbury is former president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood and is well known to many Abilenians. Newbury writes a weekly column that is syndicated in 200 newspapers. He graciously is sharing those with readers of Spirit of Abilene.) The Idle American Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury Most veterans stand proudly on annual dates they’re honored,
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By DANNY MINTON I grew up under a dark “cloud.” It hung over me for much of my life and every so often floats back over, although there are more times of sunshine than I had in the past. You see, I belong to a congregation of people who call themselves “The Church of Christ.” The cloud? Well, growing up
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