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
I’d like to point out again that those of us who have apparent strange experiences with saints or directly from God should not go around bragging about it. No, quite the opposite. God sends us these things because He wants something from us, and we’re not bright enough or spiritually advanced enough to figure it […]
Read More »Before we get started: Our war against Iran has taken attention off wars in the rest of the world. Here are two sources of up to date information from other war zones, some of which is rarely found in American sources at the moment. THE KYIV POST: kyivpost.com Please don’t lose sight of Orthodox Russia’s aggression […]
Read More »Today we’ll cover: 1 “God Bless America”, 2 America’s 200th, 3 Quotes from our Early History, 4 “A Nation of Immigrants”, 5 Christian Nationalism, 6 Thank God for America. 1. “God Bless America” This song now seems to be sung at almost every popular event. Here it is in the 1943 wartime movie “You’re in […]
Read More »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 »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 […]
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