Father Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
Bishop Nektarios died in an infirmary in Athens. As they prepared his body to be taken away for burial they laid his sweater on the bed of the man next to him. The man, who had been crippled for years, immediately stood up and began to walk, and a sweet fragrance filled the room. That […]
Read More »“What is the solution?” I asked. “I don’t think there is one”, she answered sadly, Some years ago a young American woman * , wife of the mayor of Taybeh, one of the last Christian Palestinian towns in the West Bank, spoke at our Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg. During her presentation about the situation there she […]
Read More »This is an approximate quote from Father Thomas Hopko (of blessed memory+): “At inter-religious conferences, at first you find Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and Protestants together ‘over here’ and Jews ‘over there’. But as we get down to the nitty-gritty of what religion and life are all about, you find Orthodox Christians and Jews together […]
Read More »The priest says those words at the end of almost every service. But does it fit the evidence? Is God really good? Here is our basic working principle: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible.” In that context, here is a group […]
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