Religion

Pope denounces fake news about COVID-19, vaccines, urges truth

Published on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 12:00am
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis denounced fake news about COVID-19 and vaccines Friday, blasting the “distortion of reality based on fear” but also urging that people who believe such lies are helped to understand true scientific facts.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: The little red chairs

Published on Fri, 01/21/2022 - 12:00am

It is a good thing for me that I take the 23rd Psalm literally. I believe it is true. I memorized it when I was in Sunday School.

At many churches, pandemic hits collection plates, budgets

Published on Fri, 01/21/2022 - 12:00am
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Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: No reality show

Published on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 12:00am

We talk about everyday real life here. But this is not a reality-show column. When “Time Out” started back in March of 1987, there were no reality shows. Reality was just plain and simple reality back then. Things just plain were.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Last words

Published on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 12:00am

The last words my mom said to me before she slipped into a peaceful sleep for five days and then into heaven, were, “I still didn’t get my ice cream.”

Orthodox Christians observe Christmas amid virus concerns

Published on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 12:00am

MOSCOW (AP) — Orthodox Christians in Russia, Serbia and other countries observed Christmas on Friday amid restrictions aimed at dampening the spread of the coronavirus, but few worshipers appeared concerned as they streamed into churches on Christmas Eve.

Time Out With Lois: My mother — precious memories

Published on Fri, 12/31/2021 - 2:51pm
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The most important thing in my mom’s life was her relationship with her Savior Jesus Christ, followed by her love for my Dad and my brother Ron and myself and all her other  family and friends. Oh how important you all were to her.

My mom was so ordinary, so real — and so unique. She loved growing up in the Shields Valley. Her dad, Bill Adams, died when she was 2 and sister, Alice, 1. In 1929 her mom married Tony Lennamann and she got his kids, Bernard and Bernice, as siblings. Then her mom and Tony had Doris and Frank! What a wonderful time they had! 

CHRISTMAS SERVICES

Published on Thu, 12/23/2021 - 12:00am

Following is a listing of Christmas season services and programs from Park County churches that provided them.

Local Christmas services listed

Published on Fri, 12/17/2021 - 12:00am

Following is a listing of Christmas season services and programs from Park County churches that provided them.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: No room in the inn

Published on Fri, 12/17/2021 - 12:00am
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This column is so appropriate this week for my mom and I. We are in the middle of stuff in two houses 8 miles apart — our former ones and the new one.

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