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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) departed this earthly life on August 24, 2022. Here I want to look at: 1 His life. 2 Two (of the many) things I learned from him. 3 My four personal encounters with him. His Life Bishop Kallistos was perhaps the most prominent Orthodox theologian, author and lecturer of our […]
Read More »Who am I talking about up there? Surely it can’t be me!? The number sounds just wrong, so wrong. But there it is, and here I am. In fact with the traditional Chinese or Japanese system of counting, I will be 85 years old. (I’m not going to go there. Turning 84 is quite enough.) In a book […]
Read More »Before we begin: If any of you ever look back through earlier Posts (accessible on the right of this screen), you’ll note that many of the images have been removed. It would take too long to explain why. I’m replacing them as I can get to it, Post by Post. _____________________________________________ After writing and rewriting […]
Read More »This week: 1 Regarding Orthodox who have abortions, 2 How should we try to apply Orthodox principles to society? 3 Being consistently pro-life. As I said last week: 1) If you read the original Posts three years ago, some of this will be familiar to you. Today, however, a great deal will not. Some of this […]
Read More »Well, I certainly timed this right, inasmuch as Roe v. Wade has been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, just as I am preparing to send out this Post. Originally I wrote and published these two articles in this Blog in February 2019. If you read them then, some of what you find here will […]
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