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

76. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths: Some Extra-Protestant Groups, Part 1 – Unitarians, Mormons

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Fr. Bill

By Extra-Protestant I mean groups that most Protestants don’t claim, but because they sprang out of Protestantism I think they belong in this series. If there are mistakes in what follows (and in some cases I sincerely hope there are) will somebody please correct them in the Comments below. I am not intending to make […]

75. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths: Modern Protestantism, Part 3 – Why is the Mainline down? Why are Evangelicals up? Pentecostals. Charismatics.

Posted on July 20, 2018October 21, 2022 by Fr. Bill

We’ve been tracking the decline of the Mainline Protestants and the rise of the Evangelicals. According to Pew Research in 2014 above, maybe the change in American religion has been even more radical. Look who’s growing fastest now, and rapidly. I can’t begin to describe how different the American religious scene feels today compared to 50 […]

74. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths – Modern Protestantism, Part 2: Everything turns upside down.

Posted on July 13, 2018October 21, 2022 by Fr. Bill

Contemporary Protestantism That means “within my lifetime”. I know, to some of you this will seem like ancient history! There is so much to say about Protestantism. Can you all hang in here for an extra week? … … I just heard a unanimous cry, “Yes!” So now it’s 3 weeks on modern Protestantism. Then […]

73. Orthodoxy and Other Faiths – Modern Protestantism, Part 1: Protestant disunity, Orthodox unity

Posted on July 6, 2018October 21, 2022 by Fr. Bill

The Fragmenting of Protestantism Now… if you have no acquaintance with Protestantism and probably even if you have, prepare to be confused. From early times there have been followers of Christ outside the Church – Arians, for example, were quite numerous, as Protestants are today. Then came the great division between East and West. The […]