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The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...

The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...

The interior of a Byzantine Church should be a three dimensional icon; the Church is a model of the universe, a vision of the redeemed, a...

One Sunday after liturgy, I overheard a visitor to our church commenting on the iconography, “Why do the figures look so strange? They...

Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...

With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....

Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...

When I was living in St. Petersburg, I rented a small, airy room in a sunny, high-ceilinged apartment on the corner of Dostoevsky Street...