December 8th, 2024 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 the […]

December 1st, 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: Synaxarion. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent23.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, December 1st): https://www.saintjonah.org/lit/lit_november18_t6.htm […]

November 24th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Computer Based Bible Study… for Free” 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/pent22.pdf Propers for the Sunday Liturgy (Sunday, November […]

November 17th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question “I have a recent convert friend who is worried about the validity of his chrismation after the priest left the Church. What should we say to people who received sacraments from priests who either apostatize later or turn out to be grossly immoral, and so now doubt the validity […]

November 10th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question “Why do the Orthodox adhere to Amillennialism, when it is so obvious that Satan is alive and active now and not confined. The following fathers were premillenarians: Justin Martyr, Melito, Hegesippus, Tatian, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus and Apollinaris. So why is Chiliasm a heresy?” Click here for the Answer. If you […]

November 3rd, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: Contrary to Nature: A Response to “Would the True “Nature” Please Stand Up?” 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: Panagia. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and other edifying reading: https://www.saintjonah.org/bltn/pent19.pdf […]

October 27th, 2024 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 The Orthodox Term […]

October 20th, 2024 Stump the Priest: Question: “Why does our parish not do all of the anaphora prayers out loud” 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: Crosier. Saints of the Day for Sunday and the coming week, and […]

October 13th, 2024 Stuff from the Priest: “Romans Chapter 1 & 2” 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: Zapivka. 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 Liturgy (Sunday, October 13th): […]

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 […]