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 kn...

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 ar...

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 s...

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

Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...

Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who transfor...

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

I love this quiet, mid-week feast day celebrating Christ's rising up to Heaven in His resurrected body. He leaves us with the commission ...

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 ...