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
Commemorated on September 26 Introduction: Do not believe everything you read. If you look up the life of Saint John the Theologian, in many places you won’t find much, or else you’ll read skeptical theories about him, contrary to the Church’s tradition about him. For example, modern (and even a few ancient) skeptics decided that […]
Read More »That was a trick question. The answer is Yes and No and Both and Neither, depending. Here’s why. Orthodoxy is Traditional, grounded in the Holy Tradition of the Church. While everything else in the world keeps shifting, mutating, coming and going, moving right and left, the Church is unchanging. Well, almost unchanging. But […]
Read More »The topic today is The Orthodox Environmental Movement and the contemporary Anti-Environmental Movement. The headline just above is what’s called a “grabber”. I thought if I led with today’s topic you’d all go away. That’s what happens every September when I talk about the environment. Boring, eh? So the future of mankind is boring? Back […]
Read More »This has been a long vacation, folks. I see from the Blog stats that some have headed home already. * Understandable. However, I think you who are still hanging in here will enjoy our last week in Greece. We bloggers know these things. But relax. We don’t know your names. Today we’re… Back to the […]
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