As a spiritual discipline, iconography is to be considered a vocation, on the same level as any other ecclesiastical vocation. It is certainly so in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is not be considered a “job” in the profane sense of the word, or some mundane commercial venture. It woul...
he does not commend them for a job well-done; in fact, he rebukes them as nothing more than “dumb dogs”. He indicts them as “blind” and “ignorant”. He suggests they value the comfort of sleep more than the safety of God’s people. (Isa. 56:10). When the Christian...
even if they’re not paid staff. The people who are paid staff often go above and beyond their job roles to keep the church running. Putting on an awards program that recognizes the hard work those people offer is a way to raise some money while thanking the people who support you. ...
“I just want to play shows,” says Church. “Politics’ job is to divide — that’s how you win elections. Those things that unite us are music and sports. The times when, whether you’re a Democrat or Republican or whatever, you throw your arm around the person next to you.”...
Of course, this kind of people-as-commodity thinking is compounded by living in a highly mobile society. We can move on from a job, move on from a school, move on from a church, any time that relationships become difficult. We can move halfway across the county if we wish and “star...
There are too many to mention them all: writers -- Dickens, Browning, Tennyson; musicians -- Handel, Purcell, Vaughan Williams; politicians -- Pitt, Gladstone, Chamberlain; scientists, architects, explorers and reformers. Some might be surprised to be here. Charles Darwin, despite his atheism...
musicians and writers, Zabel admires her namesake, Armenian poet Zabel Asadour. `Her deeply felt verse is a constant call to never forget our homeland and yet adapt,' she says. `I live with the wonderful people of Mumbai by the tenets we get as a baptism blessing: havatk, hoous, ser...
Tired of being undervalued at his job, 18-year-old Dick Stack took a $300 loan from his grandmother and opened his first fishing tackle shop in Binghamton, New York in 1948. Three decades later, he expanded his offerings, selling equipment for all kinds of athletic and physical endeavors, ...
All those voices. Job, scratching his sores in the ashes of his life with a shard of broken pottery. Elijah, splitting a bull into four blood-soaked pieces and calling down the fire of God to defeat the prophets of Baal. Sort of a my-God-is-bigger-than-yours. St. John of Patmos ...
perception. Only after he had returned from India he ‘literally seemed to be shining with abundance’, passing the message to all his friends that he had been reborn. Ponji gave up his job, wanted to lead the life of a beggar monk, but his internal demons would take over once in ...