“Both well known and yet unknown”: this is how I would characterize the situation of the Byzantine icon today. “Well known,” because unlike written texts or devotional practices, icons do not require ...

Rather, we move from death to life - from this fallen world to God's reign. One of the most symbolic of the Festal Icons of the Orthodox Church is that of the Holy Resurrection. In the center of this ...

Eastern Orthodox churches today ... Others believe that perhaps she, too, awaits the final days to experience resurrection, but this is often the minority opinion. In every icon, there is a fathomless ...

Thus, since Byzantine times these images have been described in the Bible, yet they have not been personified with heavenly virtues. The lives of the saints Hagiographic icons became widespread in ...

Who are the Orthodox? It’s a question ... Mathewes-Green: Faith in the Resurrection means believing that the people pictured in icons are alive — alive right now, in Paradise, in the presence ...

In three key swing districts in New York’s Hudson Valley, candidates are pressing for the support of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who ...

including Byzantine icons. According Maximilien Durand, who will oversee the new department's curation, the permanent ...

According to Islamic tradition, artwork of human figures are forbidden in places of prayer, while in Orthodox Churches, icons ...

In a special Radio 4 documentary, The Right Rev James Jones reveals the little-known story of Holy Saturday, the early church’s dark night of the soul As a Bishop, I’ve accompanied many people ...

With mutants scattered across the globe and the mutant resurrection circuit offline, what kind of journey must Storm embark on to bring Magneto back to life? Al Ewing: There’s a trope in the ...

Ecumenical Patriarch received an honorary doctorate on the occasion of celebrating 100 Years of the Archdiocese of Australia ...