January 24th, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “In the Orthodox Study Bible and in other places online, I’ve seen a chart comparing the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox canon of Scripture. My question is from what canon of what council does Orthodoxy draw her canon of Scripture from?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a […]

January 17th, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “How does doctrinal authority work in Orthodoxy? In a simplified form, how do I know what Orthodox believe? Less simply, what are the common sources for Orthodox when seeking to believe what the Church teaches? And how is it possible to know that certain teachings are definitely the Orthodox position, […]

January 10th, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “Does a fast begin and end at the time of Vespers, or at midnight?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent31.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is […]

January 3rd, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “I have heard it argued that the phrase in the Liturgy “A mercy of peace, a sacrifice of praise” is both nonsensical and a corruption of an earlier text. Is this correct, and if not, what does the phrase mean?” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you […]

December 27th, 2020 Stuff from the Priest: Christianity and Communism Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent29.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the Sunday Liturgy: https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_hffathers_pent29.htm […]

December 20th, 2020 Stuff from the Priest: Did St. Mark “Blunder”? Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent28.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the Sunday Liturgy: […]

December 6th, 2020 Stuff from the Priest: “St. Paisios the Athonite on Divine Providence” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent26.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for […]

November 29th, 2020 Stump the Priest: “Is the idea of a “fallen nature” a later Western concept that was foreign to the early Fathers? If I remember correctly, I’ve seen prominent Orthodox theologians use the term “fallen nature”. But also I think I’ve seen other prominent theologians say that the term is a later Western concept […]