By Loretta FULTON Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar from Vanderbilt University, will be guest speaker for the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University Nov. 14. She will speak at 4 and 7:15 p.m. Both lectures will be in Room 114 of the Biblical Studies Building and are free and open to the public. Theme of the lectures is
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By JIM NICHOLS It has been said that sometimes you write what you need to read yourself. Here goes. There are two linked pieces to my thinking here. Consideration of them causes me to talk to myself and the conclusions boil down to just a few words. Unfortunately, though this conclusion consists of minimal words, they are functionally difficult for
Read moreIDLE AMERICAN Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury OK, I admit it. My memory of clever ads and lots of other stuff dates back to the early years of World War II. One I recall simply won’t dislodge. It promoted what the world has long described as being “an adult beverage.” I’ll not call it by name. For all I know, the
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Hardin-Simmons University professors Dan Stiver and Tom Copeland will be guest speakers for the November meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council at noon Tuesday. Topic is “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.” The public is invited to the meeting, which begins at noon in Gerhart Hall at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest,
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By DANNY MINTON Gladys May Aylward wanted to be a missionary to the Chinese people, but it was the 1930’s, and the world was engulfed in unrest. Besides, she was a woman, a small woman with no language skills in any Chinese dialect, and no credentials to merit anyone sponsoring her efforts in wanting to go. But Gladys longed to
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By LORETTA FULTON Flash back to 2008 and place yourself on a street corner in downtown Abilene. That’s where D Grant Smith was when an experience changed his life. Always small and insecure, Smith was standing on a street corner when he saw a rough looking, much bigger guy on the opposite corner. Smith feared that the guy was going
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By LORETTA FULTON Dr. George Knight would have been proud. Three of his former students were featured speakers for the annual George Knight Lectures Oct. 28-29 at Hardin-Simmons University. Theme for lectures was “Women of the Old Testament,” with Dr. Susan Pigott, Dr. Robert Ellis, and Dr. Meredith Stone delivering the lectures. Knight, a professor for years at Logsdon School
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