(Editor’s Note: Rick Hammer is a professor of biology at Hardin-Simmons University and an environmental action coordinator for the Abilene area of the Texas Interfaith Power & Light organization. He believes that we are called to be stewards of creation. April marked the 400th consecutive month with above average temperatures on Earth–not a cause for celebration.) By RICK HAMMER Earth
Read more(Editor’s Note: Carolyn Newman is a retired public school music specialist who spent much of her career at Dyess Elementary School. She also writes “po’try,” as she calls it, thinking that her work doesn’t rise to the level of poetry. But it is certainly entertaining. Newman has sung her “Ode to Retirment” for the AISD retired teachers’ luncheon and the
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON Highland Church of Christ and all of Abilene will be loosing a good friend when Jonathan Storment and his family move to Little Rock. Jonathan, preaching minister at Highland since 2010, will become preaching minister at Pleasant Valley Church of Christ. His last Sunday at Highland will be June 24. In eight years, Jonathan has become a
Read more(Editor’s Note: Cliff Stewart, pastor of First Central Presbyterian Church and president of the Abilene Association of Congregations, issued the following statement following the shooting that took place May 18 at a Texas school.) I want to express our sadness over this morning’s shooting taking the lives of teachers and children. This shooting reminds us that such tragedy is not
Read more(Article courtesy of Dr. Kristina Campos Davis, Director of Communications, Hardin-Simmons University.) Dr. Phil Christopher, pastor of Abilene’s First Baptist Church, was honored with an honorary doctorate degree May 12 during graduation ceremonies at Hardin-Simmons University. Christopher was cited for his influence in the lives of thousands of people during his 40 years of ministry. Christopher has been senior pastor
Read more(Editor’s Note: Glenn Dromgoole is graciously sharing a series of “Just Three Words” from his book, More Civility, Please. A new segment will be posted each week for 10 weeks. The entire book can be purchased at Texas Star Trading Company.) Most good advice can be expressed in Just Three Words By Glenn Dromgoole From More Civility, Please (Sixth in
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON To most of us, loud noises can be irritating. It started years ago when we were just babies. A loud bang, rattle or abrupt noise would send us off into a crying spell. We didn’t realize at the time what it represented, only that it was irritating and required us to express our lack of satisfaction with
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON They’ve been neighbors for 64 years and they have yet to say a cross word to one another. Instead, these neighbors are the model for what neighbors should be. Meet the neighbors–Bonham Elementary School and Pioneer Drive Baptist Church. The school opened in 1953 and the church a year later. “We’ve been neighbors in this part
Read more(Editor’s Note: Matthew Broyles is Pastor to Emerging Adults at First Baptist Church and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Congregational Ethics, started by former Logsdon School of Theology professor Bill Tillman. Broyles shared this reflection, which originally was written for the Center for Congregational Ethics) By MATTHEW BROYLES (The following reflection is drawn from Galatians 5:16-25
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