By DANNY MINTON One afternoon I called the phone company to check on an issue with my bill. It was about a quarter before 5:00 when I called and was put on hold by their computer. The wait was to be several minutes, and intertwined with the music was an occasional “We’re sorry for your wait. Someone will be with
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View Post By LORETTA FULTON Our little spot on the globe will be well represented when the Parliament of the World’s Religions meets in Chicago Aug. 14-18. Representatives from the Abilene Interfaith Council and McMurry University will be taking in as many of the sessions as possible, and some of them will be participants. Attending from the Interfaith Council will
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HOW TO HELPMeals on Wheels Plus is in need of volunteers. Many of the regulars are on vacation, and college students haven’t started arriving yet for fall classes. Betty Bradley, executive director, said staff members frequently have to take time from their regular work to deliver multiple routes every day. “It has been very stressful,” she said. If you can help,
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a minister from another church background different from mine. He was twenty-five to thirty years younger than me and had been in ministry for twenty years. He told me he was considering quitting the full-time ministry and thought about doing something else. I asked him what was causing
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Hardin-Simmons University recently announced its annual alumni award winners. They will be honored at the Alumni Awards banquet on Oct. 12 as part of homecoming. Winner of the Keeter Award, the highest alumni award, is Filemon Ortiz, who graduated from HSU in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and history. He obtained his law degree from the Thurgood Marshall School
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Abilene is filled with houses of worship but most Abilenians are familiar with the inside of only a handful. A periodic feature in Spirit of Abilene will give you an “Insider’s View” of some of those places you may have driven by many times but never entered. By LORETTA FULTON Name: Valley View Missionary Baptist ChurchLocation: 3564 Clinton St.Online: https://www.facebook.com/valleyview.baptistchurch.1/Pastor:
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By JIM NICHOLS It would be impossible to find any human who has only one set of skills and interests. Although each of us certainly develops certain aspects of our lives as basic, we each have latent secondary or tertiary topics that drive us. These additional areas of our lives are unpredictable to others, but quite real to each of
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By NANCY PATRICK I am currently reading novel fifteen in Louise Penny’s series featuring main character Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté of Quebec, Armand Gamache. By this time in the series, Gamache has cleaned up a corrupt police force as well as the Sûreté’s academy that graduated immoral, inhumane, and power-hungry officers. Inspector Gamache maintains his integrity throughout the series.
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By LORETTA FULTON “Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?” For a young couple who had just been ordained as ministers in the Presbyterian Church, these words from the refrain of “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky,” were especially meaningful. Sunday afternoon, July 16, members of First Central Presbyterian Church, family, and friends, affirmed the calling of Carlo
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