Archpriest John Whiteford is a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and head priest at St. Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas. He is Dean of the Texas and Louisiana Deanery of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America. He’s a former Nazarene Associate Pastor who in November 1990 converted to the Orthodox Faith soon after completing his B.A. in Theology at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Father John is the author of “Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone of Reformation Theology” and the general editor of the “St. Innocent Liturgical Calendar.”

Popadija Xenia Franck lives in Chisholm, MN where her husband, Fr. Constantine, serves the Serbian Orthodox parish of St. Basil of Ostrog. She entered the Orthodox Church in 2009, lived around a variety of monasteries, and received her Masters of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in 2019. She has led retreats and given talks and presentations in many Orthodox parishes across the country. Pda. Xenia is an iconographer, studying under Dr. George Kordis and Abbess Katherine (Weston). She teaches adult Orthodox education classes, chants in the church services, has a YouTube channel, bakes prosphora, sews, and likes to garden and ferment.