I have recently had the pleasure of making an altar set for a Coptic church. This project was somewhat of a challenge for me because the Coptic Church and her liturgical art is not my area of expertise. I had to learn about both the liturgical implements and the historical styles of woodwork unique to […]
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher” This post is the first of a series. Part two The icon of St-Christopher is one of the most astounding images found in the Orthodox Tradition. Showing a dog-headed warrior saint, it conjures fantastical stories of werewolves or of […]
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “The Recovery of The Arts” My first article in this series proposed a vision of the arts based on Old Testament, Greek and finally the Orthodox Christian worldview. As this series on the recovery of the arts develops I will be exploring several underlying questions of […]