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
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 »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 »“What is the solution?” I asked. “I don’t think there is one”, she answered sadly, Some years ago a young American woman * , wife of the mayor of Taybeh, one of the last Christian Palestinian towns in the West Bank, spoke at our Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg. During her presentation about the situation there she […]
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 […]
Read More »The priest says those words at the end of almost every service. But does it fit the evidence? Is God really good? Here is our basic working principle: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible.” In that context, here is a group […]
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