(Editor’s Note: Carlyn Ray created Gathered Radiance, the new installation in the Abilene Heritage Square Library. She writes about the spiritual aspect of creating art, especially in community.) By Carlyn Ray One of the reasons I am drawn to glass is because it brings me into the light. It teaches me to listen to my inner voice and to what
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By Glenn Dromgoole Former Abilenian Dr. Leonard Allen, dean of the College of Bible and Ministry at Lipscomb University in Nashville, is co-author with John Mark Hicks of A Wild Democracy, the first in a planned three-volume history of the Churches of Christ in the 20th Century. The book, published by Abilene Christian University Press (192 pages, $19.99 paperback), covers the period
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By Danny Minton I sat at a table in a meeting this week with five other chaplains. As I surveyed the group, I realized that everyone around me was in their twenties. They were young and just beginning their careers, all single and with a lifetime of experiences and journeys ahead. To them, 9/11, Vietnam, Korea, Kennedy’s assassination, Alan Shepard,
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By Loretta Fulton Abilenians will have at least four opportunities to observe the National Day of Prayer, including a breakfast that will be held on the day before the official dates. Hardin-Simmons University will host a breakfast on Wednesday, May 6, the day before the national observance. The breakfast, which begins at 7:30 a.m. in the Johnson Building Multipurpose Room,
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By Loretta Fulton Love & Care Ministries, 233 Fannin St., is getting a makeover and a Care Room for people in need of a safe place and someone to talk to. The Care Room will be located in a current room that will be getting a new look, said Mark Hewitt, executive director. News of the makeover and addition of
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By Jim Nichols Art forms can expose us to truths in unexpected ways; sometimes they can expose truths about God. DaVinci’s Last Supper stimulates understandings about Jesus and the disciples in a way that other formats miss. Music is one of the powerful carriers of insights into God. Occasionally, words and notes form an amazing parallel to the Bible itself.
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By Glenn Dromgoole (This is the last of three excerpts from the book Parables from the Diamond that I co-authored with Phil Christopher, published in 2009 and now out of print.) The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, is one of the nation’s favorite tourist locations. Of the many thousands who have played the game,
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By Danny Minton Ilion Jones writes that “On the great biographer Ida M. Tarbell’s 80th birthday, someone asked her to name the greatest persons she had ever met. She responded, ‘The greatest persons I have ever met are those nobody knows anything about.’ “Once, the New York Times was asked to help a group of club women decide on the
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By Loretta Fulton The local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will deliver an 18-wheeler filled with 4,700 meals to the Food Bank of West Central Texas on Wednesday, May 6. The local church was one of only 250 selected nationwide as part of the church’s 250 Food Truck Initiative, which celebrates America’s 250th birthday. Food deliveries across the
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