Bishop Brent Whetstone

Bishop Brent Whetstone Father, Husband, Chaplain.

12/11/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Whetstone Family Foundation Announces the Very Rev. Richard J. Whetstone Scholarship
Honoring a Ruthenian Catholic priest, Eastern canonist, scholar, and spiritual father.

Cortland, Ohio — The Whetstone Family Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the Very Rev. Richard J. Whetstone Scholarship, established in memory of Father Richard J. Whetstone, JCOL—priest, veteran, Eastern canonist, teacher, and beloved mentor.

Father Richard faithfully served multiple parishes across Appalachia, including Saints Peter and Paul (Warren, OH), St. Stephen (North Huntingdon, PA), St. Andrew (Gibsonia, PA), Holy Ghost (North Side, Pittsburgh, PA), and St. Mary (Herminie, PA). He also taught Eastern Canon Law at Franciscan University of Steubenville, contributing significantly to the formation of future Church leaders.

The scholarship supports Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic students, regardless of the institution they attend, who are discerning or pursuing:
• Priesthood
• Diaconate
• Religious life
• Eastern Canon Law

Priority consideration will be given to:
• Ruthenian Catholic students enrolled at Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Seminarians of Saints Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh
• Parishioners of the parishes Father Richard served during his ministry

“Father Richard embodied scholarship, pastoral care, and unwavering service to the Church,” said Brent Whetstone, President of the Whetstone Family Foundation. “This scholarship ensures that his legacy continues in the lives of those who will serve the Church he loved.”

The first award will be granted for the 2025–2026 academic year.

For application details, visit:
www.WhetstoneFamilyFoundation.org/scholarships

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NA OKAMŽITÉ ZVEREJNENIE

Nadácia Whetstone Family Foundation oznamuje vznik Štipendia Very Rev. Richarda J. Whetstonea
Na počesť kňaza, východného kánonistu, učiteľa a duchovného otca.

Cortland, Ohio — Nadácia Whetstone Family Foundation s hlbokou úctou oznamuje vznik Štipendia Very Rev. Richarda J. Whetstonea, JCOL, ktoré bolo založené na pamiatku otca Richarda J. Whetstonea — kňaza, veterána, východného kánonistu, pedagóga a milovaného mentora.

Otec Richard verne slúžil vo viacerých farských komunitách naprieč Apalačským regiónom, vrátane Saints Peter and Paul (Warren, OH), St. Stephen (North Huntingdon, PA), St. Andrew (Gibsonia, PA), Holy Ghost (North Side, Pittsburgh, PA) a St. Mary (Herminie, PA).
Vyučoval tiež východné kánonické právo na Franciscan University of Steubenville, kde prispel k formácii budúcich vedúcich osobností Cirkvi.

Štipendium je určené pre študentov Zjednotenej Gréckokatolíckej (Ruthénskej) cirkvi, bez ohľadu na to, akú školu navštevujú, ktorí rozlišujú alebo študujú v oblastiach, ktoré formovali život otca Richarda:
• kňazstvo
• diakonát
• rehoľný život
• východné kánonické právo

Prednostné zohľadnenie získajú:
• Ruthénski katolícki študenti na Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Seminaristi Seminára sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Pittsburghu
• Veriaci z farností, v ktorých otec Richard pôsobil

„Život otca Richarda bol stelesnením učenosti, pastoračnej starostlivosti a neochvejnej služby Cirkvi,“ povedal Brent Whetstone, prezident Whetstone Family Foundation. „Toto štipendium zabezpečí, aby jeho odkaz pokračoval v životoch tých, ktorí budú slúžiť Cirkvi, ktorú tak hlboko miloval.“

Prvé udelenie štipendia je plánované na akademický rok 2025–2026.

Viac informácií a pokyny k podaniu žiadosti nájdete na:
www.WhetstoneFamilyFoundation.org/scholarships

12/11/2025

This year, the Whetstone Family Foundation proudly awarded $5,000 in scholarships to students across Appalachian Ohio — empowering future healthcare leaders and artists, who are determined to uplift their communities. 🎓✨

Our scholarship program was built on one simple belief:
Opportunity should never depend on a ZIP code or a GPA.

By investing in Appalachian students, we’re investing in the future of our region — one dream, one classroom, one student at a time.

As we look toward the year ahead, we’re asking for your help to expand our impact.
Your end-of-year gift directly supports:

✔️ More scholarships
✔️ More students
✔️ More opportunities
✔️ More hope

👉 Give today and help us continue building pathways for Appalachian students.
Donate at: www.whetstonefamilyfoundation.org/donate

11/18/2025

The people of Appalachia are truly the last marginalized population in this country- to the point where most Americans don't even think about what the community has endured socially, economically, and medically. Bringing his unique insight to this community, Whetstone draws back the veil to reveal this unique American experience in an eye-opening memoir of his ongoing work in the field of organ donation. -Amazon Review

11/17/2025

🎓🎭🍂 $5,000 in Scholarships. Dozens of Family Meals. Support for the Arts. 🎄🙏

This year, the Whetstone Family Foundation has been busy planting seeds of hope across Appalachia. Here’s how your support has made a difference:

✨ $5,000 in Scholarships
We proudly awarded scholarships to students pursuing careers in healthcare, education, and the arts—empowering the next generation of leaders rooted in Appalachia.

🥘 Dozens of Meals Served
Through our Harvest of Hope: Appalachian Thanksgiving Initiative, we’ve helped ensure families across the region could gather around a warm table with dignity and joy this holiday season.

🎭 Support for Local Arts Programs
We’ve continued our commitment to the arts by sponsoring theatre and drama programs that are giving young people a creative voice and a place to belong—because beauty, expression, and community storytelling matter deeply here.

🎁 The Gift of Hope: Christmas Campaign
And we’re not done yet. Our Christmas campaign is underway, bringing care packages, warmth, and hope to families facing winter hardships.

💖 Help Us Do More
Every donation matters. By making a tax-deductible gift today—or setting up a donor-advised fund—you can help us reach even more students, serve more families, and spark more creativity in our communities.

Join us in building a brighter, more hopeful Appalachian future—one meal, one scholarship, one story at a time.

11/17/2025

🎁 The Gift of Hope Christmas Campaign

A Holiday Outreach Spearheaded by Isabella Whetstone

This Christmas, one local family needs a little extra light.

A devoted mother is bravely fighting cancer while raising three wonderful children — ages 16, 13, and 9. As she focuses on healing, we want to make sure her children can still experience the joy, comfort, and magic that every Christmas should bring.

Through The Gift of Hope Christmas Campaign, the Whetstone Family Foundation is helping ensure this family has the means to provide their children with Christmas gifts, warm clothing, and small essentials — reminders that they are deeply loved and not forgotten.

All donations are tax-deductible, and every contribution will directly help bring joy and stability to this family during an unimaginably difficult season.

This heartfelt holiday effort is being spearheaded by Isabella Whetstone, whose compassion and leadership embody the true meaning of giving.

✨ Together, we can fill one home with light, love, and the hope of Christmas morning.

💙 How You Can Help
• Make a tax-deductible donation — every dollar helps provide comfort and Christmas cheer.
• Share this campaign with your friends, family, and community.
• Leave a message of encouragement for the family.

🎄 Your Gift Will Help Provide
• Christmas presents for the children (ages 16, 13, and 9)
• Warm clothing, holiday meals, and family essentials
• Hope, dignity, and love for a mother and her children

Let’s make this Christmas one they’ll never forget — a season filled with kindness, joy, and the reminder that love still wins.

➡️ Donate today to The Gift of Hope Christmas Campaign
Your generosity will bring warmth and wonder to a family who truly needs it.

💙 Donation Link: https://givebutter.com/5DT1d9

Sermon: When the Waves Turn the Minutes to HoursPreached on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzge...
11/10/2025

Sermon: When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours

Preached on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
✠ Bishop Brent Edward Whetstone
Anglican Diocese of Saint George

There’s a line in Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald that has haunted the Great Lakes for fifty years:

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”

It’s not just poetry—it’s a question every mariner, every chaplain, every mother standing by a silent phone has asked in the dark. It’s the same question whispered at hospital bedsides, in waiting rooms, in sanctuaries half-lit by grief: Where is the love of God when the storm will not stop?

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald vanished beneath the furious gray of Lake Superior. No mayday. No survivors. Just silence, and the slow ache of minutes that turned into hours, and hours into half a century of wondering.

Those of us who serve along these inland seas—Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan—feel that story in our bones. Because the Great Lakes are not only deep in water; they are deep in memory. Every storm carries the echo of those 29 names. Every ship’s whistle sounds a little like a prayer.

And yet—beneath all that loss, there is a truth the Church dares to proclaim: the love of God does not vanish in the storm. It is not capsized by tragedy. It does not drown in the depths.

When Lightfoot asked, “Does anyone know where the love of God goes?”—the answer, I think, is yes.

The love of God goes down with the ship.
It is there in the final prayers of frightened men.
It rides on the wind that carried their last breath home.
It sits with the families who never got the call they prayed for.
It weeps beside them, unseen but not absent.

The love of God goes to the bottom of the lake, to the bedside of the dying, to the lonely who wait for answers that will never come.
It is the presence that abides even when there are no words left to speak.

Because the miracle of faith is not that God prevents every storm—it’s that He joins us in the storm, and refuses to let the dark have the final word.

The same Christ who stilled the Sea of Galilee walks these waters still.
He does not silence every wave, but He meets us amid them.
And sometimes, faith means rowing on through the tempest, trusting that even when the compass spins, even when the radar fails, even when the shoreline disappears—God is not gone.

In the hours that feel like days, when grief stretches time beyond measure, the love of God does not go anywhere. It remains. It endures. It descends to the depths and rises again with the dawn.

So tonight, we toll the bells not only for the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew, but for every life that has been swallowed by silence, every family left waiting for the wind to break.

We remember that to live by these lakes—to serve by them—is to stand where the sacred meets the unpredictable. It is to preach resurrection in a place that remembers wreckage.

And we proclaim this truth:
Even here, even now—
when the waves turn the minutes to hours,
when the night will not end,
when the lake keeps her secrets—
the love of God goes nowhere.
It remains, steady as the shoreline of eternity.

✠ “Christus in Omnibus Locis, Per Viam Anglicanam.”
Christ in all places—yes, even on the waters that never give up their dead.

11/09/2025

“It’s not just about medicine; it’s about culture, context, and the complex terrain of trust.”
— Brent Whetstone, Anatomy of a Yes

From the heart of Appalachia, Anatomy of a Yes explores the human stories behind organ donation—where compassion meets courage, and trust becomes a bridge between loss and legacy.

📘 Available now from Inland Sea Press.
📍 Learn more at https://books.by/inland-sea-press

11/09/2025

☕ Happy National Cappuccino Day!

Some stories are best told over a good cup of coffee — the kind that warms your hands and opens your heart. Anatomy of a Yes was written in those quiet moments between late-night hospital shifts and early-morning reflection, fueled by too much caffeine and a deep love for the people of Appalachia.

This book isn’t just about organ donation — it’s about compassion, community, and the courage it takes to say “yes” when life asks something hard of us.

So today, as you sip your cappuccino, take a moment to reflect on the power of generosity and the quiet beauty of hope.

📖 Anatomy of a Yes: Field Notes from an Organ Donation Advocate in Appalachia
Available now — every story shared supports scholarships and outreach through the Whetstone Family Foundation.

Purchase your copy today at: https://books.by/inland-sea-press

11/06/2025

🌊 New Release from Inland Sea Press 🌊

We’re proud to announce the publication of Anatomy of a Yes: Field Notes from an Organ Donation Advocate in Appalachia by Brent Whetstone — a powerful exploration of compassion, choice, and the quiet heroism found in the moments between life and loss.

Set against the backdrop of rural Appalachia, this book invites readers into the deeply human side of organ donation — where faith, dignity, and empathy converge. It’s not just a story about medicine; it’s a story about meaning.

Anatomy of a Yes is now available at: https://books.by/inland-sea-press

📘 Published by Inland Sea Press
Anchored in Hope. Carried by Story.

11/06/2025

Faith in Action: Remembering Archbishop William Temple

Issued by the Chancellor and Canon to the Ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Saint George

November Sixth in the year of our Lord 2025
The Memorial of William Temple, Archbishop

Today we remember William Temple, a man whose lineage and calling placed enormous burdens upon him, as the son of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, he knew intimately the expectations and authority of the office. Yet when his country entered the darkest days of the Second World War, Temple did not retreat into comfort or privilege. Instead, he rose as one of England’s most powerful and prophetic voices, speaking to the nation via radio, addressing Parliament, and urging courage, resistance to injustice and refuge for the oppressed.

Temple’s faith was never abstract. He refused to see doctrine and duty, belief and compassion, as separate spheres. His wartime radio addresses and his presence in the public square were grounded in a theology that insisted the Church must engage the world, that the Gospel demands we care for the poor, speak on behalf of the persecuted, and treat every person as image-bearer of God.

In those days when the N**i threat loomed, Temple was unafraid to call for refuge for Jewish survivors, and to challenge British society to live up to its Christian ideals. His leadership exemplified a Church that stands with those who suffer, and that finds its voice when the world cries out.

For the modern Anglican Church, Temple’s example matters deeply. We live in an age of change and challenge, when the Church is again called to speak truth, to act in justice, to embody hope. Temple shows that the Anglican way is at its best when it holds together prayer and practice, contemplation and public action, the sacramental life and the demands of the world. Rooted deeply in Christ, his ministry flowed outward in compassion for the world.

May we, following his example, seek to be faithful servants, steadfast in prayer, clear in conviction, generous in love, and courageous in public witness.

Collect for the Memorial of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury

Almighty and everliving God, you raised up your servant William Temple to be a faithful shepherd of your people and a courageous witness to the unity of faith and action; Grant that we, inspired by his example, may not only confess your truth with our lips but serve you faithfully in our lives, seeking your kingdom in justice, mercy, and love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Per Crucem, Ad Lucem, In Fide

Rev. Canon Liam M. Helms
Chancellor and Canon to the Ordinary
The Anglican Diocese of Saint George
November 6th 2025

10/20/2025

Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist
October 18

Today the Church gives thanks for Saint Luke, the beloved physician, companion of Saint Paul, and writer of both the Gospel that bears his name and the Acts of the Apostles. Through his careful account, we see the Gospel not as an idea but as a living reality: Christ healing, forgiving, and restoring fallen humanity.

Luke reminds us that the Gospel is not a cause or a campaign, it is Good News: the message that the Son of God entered our frailty to make us whole. His writings reveal a Savior who lifts up the lowly, not through slogans or activism, but through the transforming power of grace and repentance.

As Anglicans, we hold dear Luke’s vision of the Church, a community gathered around Word and Sacrament, steadfast in prayer, and sent into the world to bear witness to Christ crucified and risen. May we, like Saint Luke, speak truth with clarity, live with faithfulness, and heal the world not by our own strength, but by the mercy of God.

“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”
— Luke 10:2

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