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
It is time to meet Aslan the Great Lion, and visit Aslan’s Country. from “Rambling Ever On” site Last week’s Post (just in case you didn’t read it which, granted, is very hard to imagine…) included a short biography of C.S. Lewis, the “anonymous Orthodox”. Today we travel to Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia are six […]
Read More »Why, you may ask, am I giving two Posts in an Orthodox Blog to an Anglican and his writings? It’s because I’ve been waiting over four years for an excuse to do this! and this is the excuse: During Pascha and Ascension season, we’ve been looking at Heaven, where Christ went “to prepare a Place” […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Coptic Orthodox Anastasis To those of you who schedule your entire lives around the arrival of this consistently-every-Friday Blog Post * my apologies for being a day late. This has been an extraordinarily busy week. Next week I’ll get things under control again. I will not use the pop abbreviation LOL […]
Read More »Someone said “Everybody listens to advice. Nobody ever takes it”. But, oh, I hope you take this advice from the Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko. So my advice is: Put his Maxims in an icon on your computer screen, labeled in capital letters so you will see it and open it often. Or print out the Maxims and […]
Read More »Finally we come to the end of this series. I’ve found so much to talk and think about that I began to wonder, at my age, whether I’d live long enough to finish it – and then find out for myself if I had known what I was talking about! But I’m still here. So, […]
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