By Glenn Dromgoole Nancy Patrick is a regular contributor to Spirit of Abilene. Her pieces are upbeat, thoughtful, insightful. I always enjoy what she has to say. Nancy also writes something else very well, something we all should do more of. Nancy writes compliments. Compliments. I wrote a light-hearted piece last week about how I love chicken legs, or drumsticks. There wasn’t
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By Glenn Dromgoole What is your favorite piece of chicken? Mine has always been the chicken leg, the drumstick. At one of my favorite buffets that serves exceptional old-fashioned fried chicken – meaning it is cooked in a cast-iron skillet – when I ask for a chicken leg, the server invariably says: “Right or left?” I laugh. “How about both?”
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By Glenn Dromgoole It’s summer, and churches all over town are having Vacation Bible School — and that brings to mind the most memorable VBS of my life. And I wasn’t even a participant. It was 60 years ago, the summer of 1965. In our little Southeast Texas town, where my dad pastored the Baptist church, the church decided to
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By Glenn Dromgoole What an exciting time for the Catholic Church in America! And what an opportunity for Pope Leo XIV to make a proclamation to foster Christian unity on a global scale. Just ten words: “All followers of Jesus Christ are welcome at the table.” All followers. No other restrictions. You are welcome at the table. It would be
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By Glenn Dromgoole My mother was the kindest person I ever knew. Smart. Brave. Humble. But most of all, kind. Maybe we all grow up thinking our own mother is the closest thing to perfection we’ll know. At least I hope that’s how you feel. I did. And she was. It wasn’t easy being a preacher’s wife and a mother.
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By Glenn Dromgoole May is National Hamburger Month, so today I’m writing about hamburgers – and math. Two of my favorite subjects! Well, there’s a faith aspect, too. We all love hamburgers, but we don’t all love them the same way. I like mine with cheese, with mayo (but not too much mayo), with lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, on a
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By Glenn Dromgoole For eight years, my friend and journalistic colleague Loretta Fulton has produced, at her own expense, the website, Spirit of Abilene. It’s a wonderful community service, offering news, views, and information related to the spiritual side of the community. I find that I spend more time reading Spirit every week than any other news site I have
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Second of two parts By Glenn Dromgoole These Food Elegies – not food allergies – are nostalgic tributes to the importance of food and family. Maybe as you peruse these short “elegies,” you will be encouraged to jot down a few of your own. Dinner with the FamilyNearly every night back thenwe sat down togetheras a family for dinner –except
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First of two parts By Glenn Dromgoole We hear a lot these days about food allergies. That’s not what this little collection is about. It’s about Food Elegies, melancholy tributes in verse to some of the foods we grew up with–and the loving hands who prepared them. A nostalgic reflection on the importance of food and family. Maybe as you
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