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Spirit of Abilene is an online faith forum for all Abilenians. Contributions are invited. They may be a meditation, a reflection, a spiritual take something in the news, or an announcement about something of interest to the community. Email submissions, plus a photo of yourself, to editor@spiritofabilene.com
Loretta Fulton, editor

If anyone could be pointed to as the perfect person to illustrate the topic of the 2018 Knight Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University, it was the series’ namesake, Dr. George Knight. Read more

Love and Care Ministries is sponsoring its 20th annual Mission: Thanksgiving 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at Arrow Ford. Monetary donations and winter clothing and bedding are needed. Read more

Danny Minton writes about grace and mercy in the form of a broken clock. Read more

A panel of 10 McMurry University students, professors and the university chaplain will present the program Tuesday for the monthly meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council.The panel will talk about connecting what they learned at the recent Parliament of the World’s Religions to interfaith work in West Texas. Read more

Jeff Childers got plenty of feedback from the Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University–and that was before the lectures were even given. It’s no surprise, considering the title of the annual lecture series: “Friends and Drunks: Two Glimpses into the Social History of the Early Christians and Their World.”Childers joked that the feedback was in the form of questions like, “Is there a prerequisite?” Read more

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