A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
That was my immediate reaction when I read again the first chapters of Ezekiel, as I prepared this Post. (Please forgive my built-in scientific skepticism. I can’t help it.) So I looked up the date when hallucinogens were first known in the Old World. There’s some evidence that in Egypt it goes ‘way back. But […]
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 […]
Read More »Several weeks ago I mentioned what a shame it is that, in our Orthodox Sunday lectionary, we never hear the lovely story of the Wedding at Cana, and I promised an article about it soon – and here it is! A Digression about Pentecost and Weddings By chance I placed this Post at the right […]
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