This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (This is the fourth part of a series. Part 1: Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat. Part 2: Where is Heaven? Part 3: Heaven and Earth in The Icon) In my previous posts in this series I have discussed what Heaven […]
This is post 8 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” This is the eighth part of an ongoing serial (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7) In the New Jerusalem, there is no distinction between indoors and outdoors. It is a […]
Editor’s Note: Our readers may remember the piece we published previewing the Hexaemeron Inc. workshop on ecclesial embroidery. This piece is a follow-up, now that the course has been completed. “And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of […]
In 1995, a small unused room in the Icon Painting School at the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy was converted into a studio for a single student interested in the lost art of church embroidery. This became the Pictorial Embroidery Department of the Icon Painting School housed in a larger facility within the famous Trinity-St. Sergius […]