October 6th, 2024 Stump the Priest: “How would you answer a Protestant who considered our veneration of the Cross (bowing down before it and kissing it) to be idolatry?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Clergy awards. Saints of the Day for […]

September 22nd, 2024 Stump the Priest: “I have heard some claim that Orthodoxy does not approve of self defense or firearms specifically, specifically attacking the “take your purse and buy” a sword verse from Luke that is often used in support of armed Christian self defense. He even went so far as to say, or at […]

September 15th, 2024 Stump the Priest: “How do you find the time to do all the things we should do as Christians, with all the demands that today’s world puts on us?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: […]

September 8th, 2024 Stump the Priest: “Why does the Orthodox Church require adults who are preparing for baptism to become catechumens, and to wait before they are allowed to be baptized. This requirement does not fit the pattern of conversions in Acts. On the day of Pentecost, about the 3000 that were baptized the same day […]

September 1st, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Should Orthodox Christians Vote? Two Contemporary Saints Answer.” Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Gluttony. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent10.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy […]

August 25th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question:”What is the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Logismoi. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent9.pdf Propers […]

August 18th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: Christians and Entertainment. Click here for the Article. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Prayer rope. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent8.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 18th): https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_august05_t7.htm […]

August 11th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Since Christ forbids us to make oaths (Matthew 5:33-36),why does the Orthodox Church allow them?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Kollyva. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying […]

August 4th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “What is the soul?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Canon Law. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent6.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 4th): […]

July 28th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “I often hear sin is sin and no sin is greater than another. What’s the church’s stance on this particular subject?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com The Orthodox Term of the Week: Conciliarity. Saints of the Day for Sunday and […]