By DANNY MINTON You sit quietly in your home with your family and the phone rings. On the other end is a voice, a voice from the past that brings back memories, memories that you wanted to forget. The voice on the phone is trembling, and you hear the sniffles of tears. You are stunned and want to hang up
Read moreThe San Angelo Diocesan Service Committee is sponsoring a talk on “Spiritual Ecumenism” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church parish hall, 837 Jeannettee St. Speaker will be Matteo Calisi of Bari, Italy. The presentation, open to the public, is part of the Hearts In One Accord Prayer Meeting. Calisi was appointed by Pope Benedict as a member
Read moreBy LORETTA FULTON “My name is Houston Heflin, and I don’t like hard conversation.” That opening remark was made by one of the speakers for the fourth annual Summer Seminar hosted by Abilene Christian University, but most likely anyone in the audience could have said the same thing. “The Gospel and Culture: What’s a Christian to Do?” was the theme
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“Reclaiming Christianity” is a new book written by the Rt. Rev. Claude Payne of Abilene, a retired bishop and rector in the Episcopal Church. Payne 86, started on the book three years ago and finished in time for the book to be released during the trienniel General Convention of the Episcopal Church held in July in Austin. “Reclaiming Christianity” is
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The Rev. Emilio Sosa was raised in an orphanage in Mexico, with several unsuccessful adoptions. He was raised in a loving environment at the orphanage by nuns who saw to it that he was well educated. As a result, he earned seminary degrees and became a priest in the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo. In July, Sosa began his
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON My wife, Kathy, and I sat down and watched a movie late one night entitled, “A Smile as Big as the Moon.” It was a true story about a coach who was also a special education teacher and his class of special needs children. The class was a variety of kids, Tourette syndrome, autism, ADHD, Downs’s syndrome and
Read moreHighland Church of Christ is sponsoring a children’s feeding program at its three campuses July 30-Aug. 17 as a pilot program to bridge the gap between the A.I.S.D. Summer Feeding Program and the beginning of school. Children ages 18 and younger will be served at Highland’s three locations – South Fifth and Highland, North Ninth and Cypress and South 10th
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON We sit behind the mask of our computer screens, open up Facebook and criticize all genres of people, past or present for what they said or did. Politicians, sports figures, movie stars, and I have even seen spouses criticize each other. We find it easy to point out people’s faults from the privacy of our personal computer.
Read moreThe 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, which concluded Friday, July 13, was a special one for the Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne, retired bishop of the Diocese of Texas. Payne and his wife, Barbara, both grew up in Abilene and live here in retirement. Not only was the
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