iconography- the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot" inset- a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one ...
Two weeks after Midsummer Eve, I saw a magical outdoor production ofA Midsummer Night’s Dreamat the Bloedel Reserve, an Arcadian refuge of woods and meadows on my island. Beginning before sunset, it utilized the fading of the day to intensify our immersion into the dreamworld. By play’s ...
Advent Adventures in Worship (Part 2: Homecoming)–– In a pioneering example of a worship “installation,” people journeyed in small groups through a series of multi-sensory experiences.“The journey was a dying (baptismal figure, narrowing of space, sounds and images of a yearning world, an...
Christmas is behind us and the last leftovers have made their way from fridge to waist. Which means it is another 11 ½ months until we get to hear that festive wonder – of believers, agnostics and atheists belting out Charles Wesley’s exuberantHark the Herald-Angels Sing: “Hail! th...
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“baptismal kutia” – when the baby would be presented to family and guests. It was cooked in milk and cream, with copious amounts of butter. Orthodox believers prepare kutia (also called sochivo) on Christmas Eve (Jan. 6) and on Epiphany (Jan. 19). Kutia is a porridge made from ...
On New Year’s Eve 2008, I wrote to The Prime Minister with the vision I see for CanaDa, and I was pleased to receive this personal reply his 1st Day back on the job in the New Year of the Lord 2009. On the occasion of CanaDa’s 144th Birthday, it is Time to share this vision...
In lieu of a post today, I offer these three passages as prologue to Christmas Eve: Today the Virgin is on her way to the cave where she will give birth in a manner beyond understanding to the Word who is, in all eternity. Rejoice, therefore, universe, when you hear it heralded: wit...
Okay, I can’t leave you there, not on Christmas Day. So let me end on a note of wonder, with a poem by G. K. Chesterton. It was sung at this year’s Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols at Kings College, Cambridge.[x] The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, ...
Although our images of an earthly paradise are painted with the colors of spring and summer, the blank expanses of the Polar regions have haunted our imagination with equal force. InMoby Dick, all that whiteness struck Ishmael as an erasure of everything familiar, revealing “all other earthly...