TakeMeOuttotheBallgame.mov Click on the link above to watch Abilenian Dustin Tatro playing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and other baseball favorites. By LORETTA FULTON “I’m the Texas Rangers organist!” Please excuse Dustin Tatro if he can’t help saying that over and over. The St. Paul United Methodist Church organist and EMT for Citizens Emergency Medical Service has added
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By LORETTA FULTON Sometimes, it’s the simplest of things that sparks an attraction between to people. For Big Mama, it was simply responding to a request. Big Mama was at a Fourth of July biker rally near Coronado’s Camp and two bands were schedule to play. She asked the first band to play a Lynyrd Skynyrd song, but they couldn’t.
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Jake Deshazer walked through the door of the community center in Nagoya, Japan, in the spring of 1950. As he passed through the entrance, a young Japanese woman wearing a yellow kimono greeted him. Amayo bowed before Jake with a warm welcome and a smile. He was met by 50 or 60 more people who then wanted
Read moreBy JIM NICHOLS The newspaper, radio, and television headlines speak about returning to normal when this pandemic wanes. It is worth asking what this means. What is the definition of “normal”? One of the curious aspects of the early Genesis stories is that God tells Adam to “name” all the other creatures. A reasonable explanation is to understand this was
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By LORETTA FULTON Good leaders get ahead of the game as soon as an opportunity arises, or even begins to emerge. And that is exactly what the leaders-in-training at ACU’s Lytle Center for Faith and Leadership did when “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” first emerged in our vocabulary. As soon as that happened, students put on their thinking caps and came up
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON I remember a story from my childhood about a magic ice cream bowl. Some of the facts are vague, but the moral of the story has remained with me over the years. There was this young boy and his mother, who had helped a person with magical powers. They were poor and could barely take care of
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Editor’s Note: The following article is reposted with permission from Episcopal News Service, where it first appeared on April 15. The Rev. Robert Pace is a former McMurry University history professor and former rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Amarillo. Abilene and Amarillo both are in the Episcopal Diocese of Northwest Texas. By EGAN MILLARD Episcopal News Service When
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By NATHAN DRISKELL Abilene filmmakers Nathan Driskell and Timothy Palmer this week released their debut documentary Where Is Palestine? online for free, at whereispalestine.film. While the filmmakers had originally intended to submit the film to festivals this year, they said the coronavirus outbreak had changed things. “We decided the right thing to do was to release this film as widely
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By LORETTA FULTON Looking for a good excuse to get out of the house without endangering anyone’s health? Jay Moore, Abilene’s favorite historian, has the solution. He has put together a drive-by tour of historic churches for the Grace Museum. Moore will compile several historic tours to keep us sane during the coronavirus shutdown. The first tour was of historic
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