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 teachesadult Orthodox education classes, chants in the
church services, has a YouTube channel, bakes prosphora,
sews, and likes to garden and ferment.