Religion

Thanksgiving challenge

Published on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 12:00am
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Several people have told me they are having a hard time making Thanksgiving plans this year. That made it easy for me to share some of our favorite Thanksgiving holidays and ideas from others this week.

Florist who refused same-sex wedding job settles with couple

Published on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 12:00am

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A florist in Washington state who was in an eightyear legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court will retire after settling with the same-sex couple whose wedding job she refused.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Tiny voices

Published on Fri, 11/12/2021 - 12:00am
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It must be my age. It seems to happen more often. Someone will tell me about something they are going through and I find myself saying, “That happened to me, too!” Is it the longer you live the more experiences are cached in your memory bank? There are days I wonder if I am retaining anything in that bank!

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Lessons learned

Published on Fri, 10/15/2021 - 4:27pm

As I wrote last week, October is when I wear a pink ribbon as a member of the BC club. My battle with the disease was in 1992. I sure learned lots of stuff. 

Average-people-stuff is different from medical stuff. Medical stuff is information from your doctor that is technical and medical. Average-people-stuff is, well, average stuff. Like do you get to keep your clothes on, or do you have to wear the paper gown when you are radiated? Like do I tie it in front or back? I asked if I could wear earphones during radiation. Nope. “Lois, you’d fry your cassette tapes!”  

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Zlang went the lid!

Published on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:00am

A lady called me with some questions. She was scheduled for a breast lump biopsy. I answered her questions the best I could and loaned her a newly released reference book I had. Most importantly, He-Who-Took-Long- Steps (my husband) and I began praying for her and her family. Because we knew some of what they were feeling. We had walked that path. Many of you have, too.

Woman who won’t get vaccinated denied transplant

Published on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:00am

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — When a Colorado woman found out her hospital wouldn’t approve her kidney transplant surgery until she got the COVID-19 vaccine, she was left with a difficult decision pitting her health needs against her religious beliefs.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Bears and darkness

Published on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 4:39pm

Is it still okay and culturally acceptable to blame your parents for your weird personality quirks? My mom and I went out on late afternoon drives twice this last week to look for bears. My mind got thinking on why this fascination to see bears?

“Aha,” I said to her, “you and dad probably caused this obsession I have about bears. Remember when we went to Yellowstone Park back in the olden days and we could feed the bears right out the car window?”

Joint service for United Methodists

Published on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 4:30pm

The United Methodist churches in Park County will hold a joint service at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3, at Holbrook United Methodist Church, 424 W. Lewis St. in Livingston. Pastor Pat

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Moving to Clyde Park

Published on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 4:34pm

You have traveled through lots of family experiences in this column. Some of you, like Jim Wilson, in Hardin, Montana, and many Rosebud County friends, have been with us since our first column was in the Rosebud Press in 1987. 

Park County United Methodist churches announce cooperative ministry

Published on Fri, 09/24/2021 - 12:00am

The Park County United Methodist churches — Pine Creek, Grace, Shields Valley and Holbrook — have recently joined together in cooperative ministry, the churches announced.