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First Baptist Church, 218 N. 35th St. Service, 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014
Length of service: 1 hour, 5 minutes. Length of sermon: 31 minutes. A few minutes into his sermon, Pastor Ross Lieuallen apologized for an equipment malfunction that was preventing him from displaying the next point of his homily on the two big-screen TVs in the front of the sanctuary. Continue Reading →
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 7 Burlington Ave. Service, 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014
Length of service: 56 minutes. Length of sermon: 27 minutes. At the First Church of Christ, Scientist, it was hard not to be won over by the beautiful setting. Continue Reading →
Chapter 3: Full Gospel Revival Tabernacle, 3307 Third Ave. N.
Service, 11 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014
Length of service: Undetermined. Length of sermon: Likewise undetermined. During this, my third foray to a place of worship in Billings, I uttered my first unprompted prayer. Continue Reading →
Chapter 2: Mount Olive Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod), 2336 St. Johns Ave. Service, 10:45 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014
Length of service: 1 hour, 10 minutes. Length of sermon: 17 minutes
I decided to attend a Lutheran service on my second outing for the simple reason that it seemed likely to be the least unusual to someone brought up Catholic. Continue Reading →
Chapter 1: St. Patrick Co-Cathedral, 215 N. 31st St. Service, 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013
Length of service: 60 minutes. Length of sermon: 5½ minutes
This service was a mixture of the familiar and the strange. Continue Reading →
Starting a week from today and continuing every Monday for about six months, Last Best News will be running a new feature, At Your Service. It will consist of a series of reviews, for lack of a better word, of church services—or mostly of services: one review will be of a musical presentation and another of a meeting of humanists—in the Billings area. To avoid blowing my cover, I have already made all my visits and written all my reviews. (more…) Continue Reading →
