• Food Bank Adding Drive-thru Pantry Three Times a Month

    By Loretta Fulton The Food Bank of West Central Texas is opening a drive-thru food pantry that will be open hours and days that other pantries in town aren’t.  The

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  • Heavenly Rest to Dedicate Rebuilt Organ

    By Loretta Fulton After a wait of two years, the newly rebuilt organ at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest will be dedicated on Sunday, May 3. The dedication

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  • There Are No Routine Plays

    By Glenn Dromgoole (This is the second of three excerpts from the book Parables from the Diamond that I co-authored with Phil Christopher, published in 2009 and now out of

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  • One Woman’s Unconditional Kindness

    By Danny Minton Winston Churchill called it “the greatest American Battle of the war.” It would be known in history as “The Battle of the Bulge.” The United States would

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  • Enjoy the Chase

    By Glenn Dromgoole (This is the first of three excerpts from the book Parables from the Diamond that I co-authored with Phil Christopher, published in 2009 and now out of

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  • Meet Mike Greenfield

    By Loretta Fulton A lot of kids would have gotten burned out on church if they had gone as much as Mike Greenfield did when he was growing up in

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  • Silence

    By Jim Nichols Silence is a word that demands an opposite. We each understand what is meant by silence, but we would probably define it as the absence of something.

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  • What’s in a Name?

    By Nancy Patrick In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet asks Romeo the title question when she tries to rationalize the relationship between herself, Juliet Capulet, and her lover, Romeo Montague.

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  • The Church Without Walls

    By Danny Minton Almost everyone who reads this has probably seen the World War II movie, “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” We can’t resist whistling the song that the

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  • Ah, Abilene

    By Glenn Dromgoole A few things I’ve learned after making Abilene my home for 40 years. Maybe you’ll agree. * Someone said “Keep Abilene Boring” and we take that as

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Prayer for ‘Timshel’

By NANCY PATRICK I have written before about my brain’s inability to relax. I think a lot about the ironies, complexities, injustices, and undecipherable events of life. You know the kinds of things to which I refer—family of origin, nationality, race, intelligence, opportunity, and gender. Because a greater power than humanity has determined these factors, we can never know answers.

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A Bit of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair Right Here on North 1st Street

By JAY MOORE There is a building along North 1st rooted in foreign inspiration. The brainchild was born in 1958 during a visit to the Brussels World’s Fair. During the six-month run, over 41 million people came to the Brussels Fair—known as Expo ‘58—including at least two from Abilene. That couple came home with an idea. Here’s the story.  Jack

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Turning the Page

By JIM NICHOLS From 1951 to 2008 one of the best known and most quickly recognized Americans was radio broadcaster Paul Harvey. On national radio his news and comment six days a week is estimated to have reached 24 million listeners every week. Like other popular personalities, he developed some trademark phrases and speaking mannerisms that made him instantly recognizable

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A Man Who Got It Right

   THE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury Mention the name Walter R. Chambers to families with long connection to the tiny Coleman County community of Burkett, TX, and a hush of funereal proportions is immediately evident.  Mr. Chambers’ views on all issues–school, sports, community and otherwise–carried the day. Respected as much as any educator of his era, he is most remembered

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