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
1) American Orthodox wealth and education and more 2) How American Orthodoxy is changing. 3) Abortion statistics 4) How to find out what much of the American press ignores. 5) Israeli settler attacks on Christians on the West Bank 6) Old-fashioned dancing for two or more sexes 7) Religion in the White House 8) Patriarch […]
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 »This has been a long vacation, folks. I see from the Blog stats that some have headed home already. * Understandable. However, I think you who are still hanging in here will enjoy our last week in Greece. We bloggers know these things. But relax. We don’t know your names. Today we’re… Back to the […]
Read More »Why is it so hard to get to church when we’re away from home? So who wants to go to church while we’re on vacation? I (the Church fanatic) do. Let’s see if I can convince you to join me. As you know from last week’s Post, we’ve left the problems of the world behind, […]
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