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
Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine. Pray for the Palestinian people and for peace in Gaza. The first thing I want to say is that Saint Symeon makes me feel embarrassed. First, because of how little I’ve known of this great man. How have I missed him all these years? […]
Read More »Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. This will not be pleasant reading. If you want sweetness and light, come back next week. However, to your great relief and mine, I’m not going to talk about Charlie Kirk today. I’m just using him as […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org ________________________ What follows here are two papers I prepared almost thirty years ago, for what purpose I can’t remember. A member of our Saint Nicholas congregation found […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the much-suffering Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. __________________ Why an article about King David in the middle of September? Just because… Because I’ve wanted to write about this fascinating and significant man, but there’s never an appropriate time. Many prophets get […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org _______________________________________ Point One: The Orthodox Church’s View of Science and Scientific Research To sum up at the beginning: We’re all for it. In this we are unlike Fundamentalist […]
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