April 2018 – Fr. Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast

62. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths: Classical Protestantism, Part Two – The Denominations

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Fr. Bill

Christ is risen! Luther wanted to reestablish Biblical truth, but because of his “Bible alone” principle, soon in Protestantism there was only a multitude of opinions about the Bible. And so Protestants were divided almost from the beginning. Before Luther there was the Church, not many “churches”. Granted, Orthodox and Roman Catholics had a bit […]

61. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths: Classical Protestantism – Part One

Posted on April 13, 2018February 11, 2022 by Fr. Bill

Christ is risen! I’m giving 4 Blog posts to Protestantism, since it is so extraordinarily complex – as you can see here, and this is only part of it. . What is Protestantism? When Protestants ask “What do Orthodox believe?” there is an answer. All Orthodox believe the same things. When I was still Anglican, Father […]

60. My Travels: 2009 Trip – Saint Nektarios, Crete

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Fr. Bill

Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! We’ve been dealing with a lot of heavy subjects lately. We need a break. Our late Antiochian Metropolitan Archbishop Philip (of blessed memory) directed that clergy should stay in our parishes during Great Lent, but now it’s Pascha – and besides, our Milwaukee forecast says freezing rain and […]

59. The Meaning of the Cross

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Fr. Bill

The following is sung during the procession of the Holy Cross at our Orthodox Holy Thursday evening “Twelve Gospels” service. Last Holy Friday (Blog post 9) I compared the Orthodox and Roman Catholic crucifixes. A picture is worth a thousand words, so probably I should now keep quiet. However, being a Blogger, I can’t help […]