Tag: devotional art
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Brief Book Review: The Art of Holy Week and Easter
“This little book is a beautiful invitation to go more deeply into the moments of Holy Week and Easter.”
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Learning to Interpret Christian Art
I recently fell down the delightful rabbit hole that is Kahn Academy’s series of art history presentations and videos.
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Devotional Prayer and Community
In early October, I was in Nairobi teaching at a program for contemplative nuns, and afterward I spent a few days with the Benedictine nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery outside the city, in rural Kiambu. As I have written about before, this is still a fairly new community, and it is fascinating…
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Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop
This past week I worked with iconographer Anna Gouriev at a Hexaemeron icon painting workshop hosted at Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina. Another track, on icon carving, was led by Jonathan Pageau. For those not familiar with the traditional Russian process of icon painting (or “writing”), it is a prayerful time of transforming…