HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE A team comprised of 20 Hardin-Simmons University physician assistant students, nine non-medical staff, and 10 medical professionals recently returned from a mission trip in the Dominican Republic. HSU began preparing for the student-led mission trip as early as Fall 2018, with meetings held each month to communicate what the Dominican Republic community would need. Each student
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By DANNY MINTON I was traveling down one of the commercial streets in Abilene one day and saw the sign, “Clean Dirt.” That struck me odd since I learned years ago that dirt was “dirty.” I was told to wash the dirt off my hands before I ate. I washed the dirt out of my hair, and my mom cleaned
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By LORETTA FULTON Members of First Christian Church gathered May 5 in a circle around the sanctuary, held hands,and sang, “We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord.” It is that spirit that will take the congregation on a new journey as plans come together to relocate from the downtown corner that has been home since
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By DANNY MINTON The date was sometime in January 1966 when I lay in bed, alone in a hospital room at Baylor medical center, encased in a body cast that engulfed the upper half of my body. I had been in the hospital over a month after breaking a vertebra in my neck. It didn’t hurt when it happened, and
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IDLE AMERICAN Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury Brits have long been viewed as folks who seem bent on probing details of “whys” on many topics, some of them unlikely. Maybe it’s because they’ve been around a long time. Like the Farmers Insurance commercial, they “know a thing or two because they’ve seen a thing or two.” Many of them reach “lathered
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By LORETTA FULTON It didn’t take David Lofton long to reach a conclusion. “I think it’s pretty good,” he said, “and the cobbler’s excellent.” Lofton is warden of the Middleton Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located just north of Abilene. On May 16 and 17, Lofton and his close to 500-member correctional and support staff were treated
Read moreDr. Travis Frampton, longtime religion professor and administrator at Hardin-Simmons University, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Schreiner University in Kerrville. Frampton, who has been at Hardin-Simmons 19 years, currently serves as vice president for university mission and strategic vision at HSU. According to a news release from Hardin-Simmons, Frampton has held numerous positions, including professor
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By LORETTA FULTON Larry Wolz will celebrate 50 years in church music, 38 of them at First Central Presbyterian Church, with an organ recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at the church, 400 Orange St. A reception will follow. The program, titled, “Fifty Years on the Organ Bench,” will include pieces by various composers, including one composition by Wolz,
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By LORETTA FULTON The numbers are startling-1.2 million orphans in Zimbabwe, accouting for 10 percent of the population. It sounds hopeless, but the people who operate Harvest Family Village near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, don’t see it that way. They see those numbers an opportunity. So do volunteers who travel great distances to help them. Among those volunteers is Robin Cunningham, a
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