August 16th, 2026 Stuff from the Priest: “Is Orthodoxy Too Foreign?” 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: Dormition Fast. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent11.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 16th): […]

August 9th, 2026 Stump the Priest: Question: “I am not opposed to triune immersion, but I do want to question the idea that triune immersion is the ONLY way. Why isn’t there a single mention of triune immersion in the New Testament? Other than the Didache, I see no explicit support for triune immersion from […]

August 2nd, 2026 Stuff from the Priest: “Becoming a Catechumen” 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: Exclamation. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent9.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, August 2nd): https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_july20_sun_t8.htm […]

July 26th, 2026 Stump the Priest: “Why did God create the Tree of Knowledge?” 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: Litany. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent8.pdf Propers for […]

July 19th, 2026 Stuff from the Priest: “‘Worship’ as a False Friend” 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: Automelon. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent7.pdf Propers for the Sunday […]

July 12th, 2026 Stuff from the Priest: “‘Worship’ as a False Friend” 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: Igumen. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent6.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, July 12th): […]

July 5th, 2026 Stump the Priest: Question: “Is it necessary for an Orthodox Christian to always wear a Cross?” 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: Abbot. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://saintjonah.org/bltn/pent5.pdf Propers […]

June 21st, 2026 Stump the Priest: Question: “What does the Church teach about having non-believers in our homes and parish Temples? 2 John 1:10, seems to suggest that we should not have anyone who professes a teaching contrary to the Trinitarian faith into our homes, or to even greet such a person. Was this message […]

June 14th, 2026 Stump the Priest: Question: “How can someone best assimilate into the ‘culture’ of Orthodoxy even picking up other national customs without losing their own nationality (being of the USA for example)? How do we find that middle balance of taking the good and leaving the bad from our own culture?” Click here for the […]