A Modern, American Orthodox Pastor

About the Book

February 10, 2010 Haralambos the Holy Martyr Dear to God, Christ is in our midst! By the grace of God we are presented here with a wonderful collection of sermons. They are not, however, an expression of a dry, dead, dissection of Holy Scriptures, but represent the living experience of a priest who has em-braced. Like the Hebrew people of the Old Covenant, the V. Rev. Bill Oln-hausen does not delve into fruitless speculation about the Divine, but he speaks of that which he knows from his encounter of the Living God. Without reservation, I recommend this wonderful collection of homilies, A Modern, American Orthodox Pastor: The Homilies of Father William Oln-hausen as a vital resource for understanding as the fruit of a life of prayer, fasting, the reading of Holy Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church, and most importantly an encounter and experience of the All-Holy Trinity. I am most grateful to the editors, James Scarpaci MA and Michael Huber ThM, MA, for gathering these gems into this little treasury. Your unworthy father in Christ, + MARK Bishop of Toledo and the Diocese of the Midwest

About the Author

Born into a mixed Protestant/Catholic family background, Fr. Olnhausen felt genuinely surprised to be called into the ministry during his college years. While attending a Methodist seminary he became convinced of a "Western Orthodoxy" in the Anglican Church as a result of influence by C.S. Lewis. He then graduated from General Theological Seminary and attempted to move his Episcopal parish in this direction. Having been exposed to Eastern Orthodoxy in various places, especially Greece, he ultimately decided that Orthodoxy represented the original faith of Christianity. In 1988 he resigned from the Episcopal priesthood and began St. Nicholas Orthodox Church the next year with a group from his former Episcopal church.