January 1st, 2023 Stump the Priest: Question: “Did Christmas originate from a pagan holiday?” 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/pent29.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for […]

December 25th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “What do the terms “apocrypha” and “deuterocanonical” mean, and how does the Orthodox Church view them?” 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/pent28.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat […]

December 18th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “Now that the Christmas season has begun — in our secular society called the “holiday season” — there are parties held at workplaces. But we are fasting, and the celebration of the Lord’s Nativity does not comes until December 25/January 7. How would you counsel Orthodox Christians on this […]

December 11th, 2022 Stuff from the Priest: “The Ecumenist “Orthodox” (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 4)” 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 […]

December 4th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “Is the story of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple historical?” 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/pent25.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free […]

November 27th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “Isn’t the fact that there were controversies over icons well into the 9th century proof that the early Church did not venerate icons?” 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 […]

November 20th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “When are prostrations made at the Liturgy?” 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/pent23.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the […]

November 13th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “Doesn’t Ezekiel 16:49 make it clear that the sin of Sodom was inhospitality rather than homosexuality?” 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/pent22.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader […]

November 6th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “What is the soul?” 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/pent21.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, […]

October 30th, 2022 Stump the Priest: Question: “Why do the Orthodox have patron saints?” 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/pent20.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the […]