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Founder Biographies

Clark Carlton

Clark Carlton is an author and editor of the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship. He has also taught philosophy for more than twenty-five years. A native of Tennessee, he earned a B.A. in philosophy from Carson-Newman College, an M.Div. from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America. He is the author of “The Faith” Series and has been published in the Saint Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, Christian Bioethics, and Histoire de la Littérature Grecque Chrétienne des Origines à 451.

Rebecca Dillingham

Rebecca “Iliana” Dillingham used to run the blog and podcast Dissident Mama where she described herself as a “Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, boymom, and lifelong learner” and an advocate of  “Orthodox Christianity, the Southern tradition, real history, homeschooling, and freedom.” A native of Richmond, Virginia, and a 25-plus-year Carolina refugee, Rebecca earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She and her husband and three sons were chrismated into the Holy Orthodox Church on December 24, 2017.

Donald Wilson Livingston

Donald Wilson Livingston is a retired professor of philosophy, Emory University. He is past Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and founder and president of the Abbeville Institute. He serves on the editorial staff of Chronicles, A Magazine of American Culture and is the author of “Hume’s Philosophy of Common Life” and “Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume’s Pathology of Philosophy,” both by University of Chicago Press. Livingston converted to Orthodoxy in 2012 and is a parishioner at Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Father John Whiteford

Father 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’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’s the author of “Sola Scriptura: An Orthodox Analysis of the Cornerstone of Reformation Theology” and the general editor of the “St. Innocent Liturgical Calendar.” You can also read his writings at his blog aptly titled Father John Whiteford.

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