November 28th, 2021 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 subject?” Click […]

November 21st, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “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 […]

November 14th, 2021 Stuff from the Priest: Sola Scriptura In the Vanity of Their Minds. Click here for the Article in English. Click here for the article in Russian. 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 […]

November 7th, 2021 Stuff from the Priest:  Taking Orthodoxy As It Is. 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 Sunday […]

October 31st, 2021 Stuff from the Priest: Question: “What is the history behind the tradition of the bread and the wine on the table, to eat and drink after the Eucharist?” 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, […]

October 24th, 2021 Stuff from the Priest: “A Response to “Holy Communion and Menstruation”” 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/pent18.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for […]

October 17th, 2021 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 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/pent17.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader […]

October 10th, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “When are prostrations made at the Liturgy?” 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/pent16.pdf Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (which is free to download): http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Propers for the […]

October 3rd, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “What does St Paul mean when he says “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law” (1 Corinthians 14:34)? Does this mean that women cannot direct or sing […]

September 26th, 2021 Stump the Priest: Question: “The Bible says that homosexuality is an abomination (Leviticus 18:22), but it also says that eating shrimp is an abomination (Leviticus 11:9-12), so why do Christians eat shrimp, but oppose homosexuality?” Click here for the Answer. If you have a question you would like to ask, e-mail frjohnwhiteford@gmail.com Saints of the Day […]