Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald Former Washington State legislator Bill Hinkle – Deacon Vasily Hinkle – helps organize and oversee the Antiochian Orthodox Church’s mission in Moses Lake. MOSES LAKE — These days, he’s called Deacon Vasily. But for the ten years he served in the Washington State legislature representing the 13th district, and before […]

We have begun a Wednesday evening Bible study in which we sections of the New Testament that have been misinterpreted in ways that have had enormous consequences not only for Church history. Please contact Fr. Timothy if you would like to attend. October 24: Romans 5:1-12 – Original Sin October 31: 2 Timothy 3:16 – Inerrancy November […]

  Again we pray to our Lord and Savior for the preservation of the Orthodox Church throughout the world in unity and true faith and for the bestowal of peace and tranquility, love and accord upon it, let us all say, O Lord, hear us and have mercy.   Again we pray that Thou wilt […]

Use and Application of the Institutes of Saint John Cassian by V. Rev. Timothy Wilkinson The Institutes of Saint John Cassian describes eight deadly vices and the appropriate remedy for each one. While emphasizing that our salvation is absolutely dependent upon the grace and mercy of God (p. 259 IX), the author explains how each […]

My friend Dr. Tony Clark has written an important article about what is happening with the Roman Catholic Church in China. Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

A heartfelt thank you to all who have helped initiate St. Luke Orthodox Christian Church. Many individuals and families have contributed their time and talents. Also, contributions of liturgical items have been received from the following churches: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Spokane Christ the Savior Antiochian Orthodox Church, Spokane Valley Our Lady of Kazan […]

This past year, I burdened the English-speaking world with my very own translation of the New Testament – a project that I undertook at the behest of my editor at Yale University Press, but that I agreed to almost in the instant that it was proposed. I had long contemplated attempting a ‘subversively literal’ rendering […]

In a thoughtful piece entitled, “Headscarves, Modesty, and Modern Orthodoxy” published in Public Orthodoxy, Katherine Kelaidis has some valuable things to say about women wearing headscarves in the modern West. In this piece she offers a much-needed and valuable historical insight that women like her grandmother wore a headscarf in Greece but upon coming to America discarded […]