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
Who? I fear that is the reaction of many Orthodox, till lately including myself. The Orthodox Church has given the title “Theologian” to only three men: 1) Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, 2) Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople, one of the great Fourth Century Cappadocian Fathers, defender of the Holy Trinity against […]
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 »Hang on. We are now about to be counter-cultural. 1) Who is wealthy? Answer: Probably we are. The average annual personal income in America is about $65,000, and the average annual household income is about $85,000. The average annual income (adjusted to American dollars) in Haiti is $2010, in Nigeria $1360, in Afghanistan $390. 2) […]
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 […]
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