By Nathan Jowers My name is Nathan Jowers. I’m a student of theology, studying Bible at Abilene Christian University. During the school year, I attend services at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Abilene. At the start of the summer I was near miraculously offered an internship that would have me flipping back and forth between work at a
Read moreHardin-Simmons University students in the Department of Physical Therapy work with special needs campers at the Joni & Friends Family Camp 2017 in Navasota. The will follow that camp with a mission trip to Peru. Photos courtesy Jacob Brewer, HSU Department of Physical Therapy. See more photos in Faith and Action by clicking here.
Read moreRick Hammer, a biology professor at Hardin-Simmons University, has an article in The Behemoth, a Christianity Today website, with the intriguing title, “If C.S. Lewis Met E.T.: Scientists and theologians on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.” Hammer is a strong advocate of environmental stewardship and recently led a group of HSU students on a discovery trip to Texas A&M University’s
Read moreBy Jay Moore It was a series of C-sharps which first called Abilene to worship in 1883. The tone rang forth from the belfry atop the small Methodist church located at South Second and Butternut. That same note, from that same bell, continues to sound each Sunday as one of Abilene’s oldest congregations gathers for worship. Just weeks after the
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton The annual convention of two African-American Baptist Church conferences ended June 30 like it began June 26–with thanks to God and plenty of good music. The 103rd meeting of the Congress of Christian Education and the 114th meeting of the Original West Texas Baptist District Association, Inc., ended with performances of all kinds by youth groups. They
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton “My mom gave me a dime to buy a lime.” “My mom gave me a quarter to buy water. And on and on it went–one rhyme after another in a silly little song that everyone was loving. That was the scene June 26 at the Caring in Action (CIA) camp hosted by Connecting Caring Communities and held
Read moreRebecca “Becca” Kello was ordained as a deacon June 14 in a service at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. The Rt. Rev. Scott Mayer, bishop of the Diocese of Northwest Texas, presided. Kello will begin her job as associate rector at Christ Episcopal Church and campus chaplain at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, July 1. Kello
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton Anyone getting ready for a medical mission trip to an international destination naturally would have some worries. Knowing the language should not be one of them, according to a young woman who has been there. “Don’t worry about knowing the language,” said Keelan O’Connell Camacho. “The universal language is love.” And that is exactly what a
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton During the Great Depression, the government instituted a plan to fight the high unemployment rate based on “relief, recovery, and reform.” That was the philosophy behind President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program to immediately assist those in need, jumpstart the economy, and then keep the economy stable. The speaker for a seminar on poverty held May
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