Religion

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Stumbles in the aisle shows church is not formal and boring

This was written three years ago this week. It is more important for you now than it was then. Please trust me. If you heed these words, I promise you will not be sorry.

Have you stayed away from church services because of pomp and circumstance? Think services are too formal or too strict for you? Or you went once and found it boring? May I dispel those thoughts? At least last Sunday in the church we attend I took steps (literally) to change your thinking!

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Prince Charles’ Easter message

LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles released a videotaped Easter message early Friday offering support for persecuted Christians around the world.

He expresses sympathy for people who have “had to flee for their faith and for their life” and says he has been deeply moved by their courage and ability to forgive.

He says all three Abrahamic faiths have endured persecution when religion “has fallen into the barbaric grip of those who distort and misrepresent faith.”

TIME OUT WITH LOIS

The tale of the Easter Pageant soldier's skirt

It was time for He-Who-Takes-Long-Steps to model my soldier skirt. Karen Woods, our Easter Pageant director had told me, “We need new soldier skirts this year.”

“I can do that,” I said. The Easter Pageant in Colstrip was a huge production for a small town. Over 100 people were involved. People from all over the area and many different churches volunteered. The performances each year were packed.

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Easter services

The Enterprise will publish a listing of Easter season services in its Friday, March 23 and Friday, March 30 editions. Churches wanting their services or programs listed should email them to news@livent.net or call 222-2000.

 

Spontaneous Pope visit

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group of 45 band students from a Jesuit high school in St. Louis didn’t know they’d get a spontaneous visit from Pope Francis when they recently performed in the Vatican.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS

The Easter Pageant in Colstrip was a huge production for a small town. The four performances each year were packed. This pageant touched all of our lives in the seven years it ran.

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Easter service listings

The Enterprise will publish a listing of Easter season services in its Friday, March 23 and Friday, March 30 editions. Churches wanting their services or programs listed should email them to news@livent.net or call 222-2000.

Archbishop: Saudi leader

wants faiths to flourish

Putting yourself in the Easter story

TIME OUT WITH LOIS

The Easter Pageant in Colstrip was a huge production for a small town. The four performances each year were packed. This pageant touched all of our lives in the seven years it ran.

Church birefs

Easter service listings

The Enterprise will publish a listing of Easter season services in its Friday, March 23 and Friday, March 30 editions. Churches wanting their services or programs listed should email them to news@livent.net or call 222-2000.

 

Archbishop: Saudi leader wants faiths to flourish

Local churches respond to emergency on Blackfeet Reservation

Dave Greep, pastor of the Holbrook and Grace United Methodist churches in Livingston, had a visual aid for a request he made Sunday to his congregations: Let’s fill this sled

Readers respond to quarter story

Thank you, Jeremia Fox, for giving me the quarter. What benefits have been reaped! Letters came in from all over the country, folks sharing childhood memories, reminded by my own