Icons have been a part of the Russian Orthodox faith for thousands of years as a physical expression of worship. They’ve been displayed at churches, carried into battle and each iron has been publicly ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0084 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.8.1.0084 Copy URL Abstract African Americans regularly join Eastern ...

A Ukrainian artist has exhibited a stunning collection of linen threaded icons made using a brand new patented type of macramé. Vladimir Denshchikov's Russian Orthodox icons were put on display at the ...

Every year on or around Epiphany, a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful from Denver forms a carpool caravan and drives three hours to the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, Colo. They make ...

After serving as an active Methodist pastor for more than 40 years, I am now retired. My husband is also a retired Methodist pastor, and growing up, our two daughters attended worship in the Methodist ...

According to a story in the Old Testament, three youths were thrown into a fiery furnace by an angry king, but were not harmed. They sang amid the flames, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church pastor the Rev.

Continuing an artistic tradition begun in the 3rd Century, Kim Fritzges paints early Byzantine icons in Studio 311 at the ...