Fr. John Whiteford

The recent events in Georgia are quite sad. All sides are historically Orthodox Christian peoples. The media has generally only been prese...

Fr. John Berzins (now Bishop John), reading his confession of Faith on the eve of his consecration. At the Vespers on Thursday, the Old Rit...

The west side of the Church of the Nativity in Erie. The Icon of the Last Judgment is partially visible. As I mentioned, I missed the first...

The Iconostasis of the Church of the Nativity, during a Vigil Before I move on to talk about other aspects of the conference, I should make ...

I spent the better part of last week at the 2008 Orthodox Conference in Erie , Pennsylvania. Because of my secular job, I was unfortunately...

Click here for a slide show of our parish move and first liturgy at our new location.

This is the beginning clip of a full length animated film about the Monkey King , that was done in China just before the cultural revolution...

A Paschal song performed by the musical orchestra ''Stupovi'' and various Serbian singers and celebrities, which is par...

From "The One Thing Needful", by Archbishop Andrei of Novo-Diveyevo. The Word of God has the wonderful power to renew the soul of ...

Another Aaron Copland classic

Today, we finished moving into our new facility. We have a lot left to do, but we had our first service there this evening. Interesting, r...

Yesterday (fittingly on the anniversary of the signing of the act of canonical communion), Metropolitan Hilarion was given the white klobuk...

One year ago today, I was in Christ the Savior Cathedral, witnessing the reconciliation of the Russian Church. What a blessing it was to be...

After all... half the country went into rebellion because he was elected, and the other half were not very happy with him for most of the ti...

A clip from a fun old movie.

Many Years! Russia Today has a video news clip on this. In Russian, here is another video report: Here is the official notice from the Synod...

This week the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia will elect a new head. Russia Today has a report on the opening day ...

This is one of two songs that were sung at my wedding. It was a Protestant wedding, at a Chinese Baptist Church (this was about two yea...