IDLE AMERICAN Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury If Walmart can offer the best-ever recipe for turning out world-class lemonade from lemons grown in their own orchard, folks will line up to buy it, whether or not they’re greeted at the store door. The best decision-makers of the nation’s largest private employer must have been absent when the decision was made
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By LORETTA FULTON Ash Wednesday will be observed at several churches in Abilene, at all three universities, and even on the sidewalk next week. Leslie Dunlap, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, will be on the sidewalk in front of the church, 1202 S. Pioneer Drive, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 5:30 p.m. for “Drive-by Ashes.” Read
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON East coast, West coast, Texas coast and points in between, Mike Cope has been there since leaving the pulpit at Highland Church of Christ in 2009. But listen a little closer to his life story the past 10 years and something becomes obvious. “We’ve never left Abilene,” Cope said. Read Loretta Fulton‘s complete story in the Abilene
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By LORETTA FULTON United Methodists voted Feb. 26 in St. Louis to maintain the current wording in the church’s Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality issues. The denomination’s Council of Bishops, including Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, voted in May 2018 to support a plan that would have been more inclusive. That plan, and one
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By NANCY PATRICK Women’s History Month provides a time for everyone to pause and reflect on the value of women in society. Modern women benefit greatly from the dedication, persistence, commitment, and sacrifice of our female predecessors. No longer does the developed world relegate women to the home as wives, mothers, and caregivers. Though many modern women choose to retain
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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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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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