October 19th, 2025 Stump the Priest: Question: “What should parents do when their children are involved in sports that have games or practices that conflict with Saturday evening or Sunday morning services?” 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: Orlets. Saints of the […]

October 12th, 2025 Stump the Priest: Question: “What is the appropriate way for laypeople to use incense in prayer?” 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: Dikirion and Trikirion. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: […]

October 5th, 2025 Stump the Priest: Question: “In Matthew 16:13-19, is Jesus referring to Simon Peter being the rock upon which He will build His church, or is He referring to Himself in Simon Peter’s revelation of who Jesus is? And did Jesus give all of the disciples the power to bind and loose, or […]

September 28th, 2025 Stuff from the Priest: “David Bentley Hart and Marcionism” 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: Chrism. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent16.pdf Propers for the Sunday […]

September 21st, 2025 Stuff from the Priest: “The Hart Idiosyncratic Version” 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: Diptych. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent15.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, September 21st): https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_nattheot_sun.htm […]

September 7th, 2025 Stuff from the Priest: “The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament” 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: Indiction. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent13.pdf Propers for […]

August 31st, 2025 Stuff from the Priest: “The Prayer Rule of St. Pachomius” 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: Koliva. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent12.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August […]

August 24th, 2025 Stuff from the Priest: “The Bible the Church and Homosexuality: Obscurantegesis vs the Truth” 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: Koliva. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent11.pdf Propers for the […]