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17 December 2025ikonografiaThree Men on a Bench (To Say Nothing of the Thief)
On how Paradise was painted in Crete β and why it still matters.
12 December 2025miejscaElafonisi Beach, a Place That Deceives
The beauty of this landscape easily drowns out the fact that it was a witness to events closer to Greek tragedy than to a holiday story.
- β29 November 2025koscioly
Chromonastiri - Panagia Kera
In Chromonastiri even silence has its own weight. This is not a village trying to win the attention of visitors β it is a place that lives by its own rhythm, as if time flows differently here.
- β28 November 2025ikonografia
Pantokrator: A Presence Impossible to Ignore
In Cretan churches, the image of the Pantokrator does not tell a story β it establishes a relationship in which the human being ceases to be the centre, and God reclaims His place above the world.
- β12 November 2025kreta
Modern Crete and Orthodoxy β The Islandβs Tale
How prayer, salt, and icons shaped everyday life on Crete from the Venetian era to the present.
- β2 November 2025bizancjum
The Orthodox Civilization β The Islandβs Story
Why Crete survived.
- β28 September 2025biblistyka
How Much Judaism Remains in Eastern Orthodoxy β Part IV
Eastern Orthodoxy, though shaped in the Greek world, thinks about God far more like Israel than like late Latin Europe.
- β17 September 2025biblistyka
How Much Judaism Remains in Eastern Orthodoxy β Part III
If there is anywhere a nameless yet still pulsating core of Judaism preserved within Eastern Christianity, it is in the liturgy.
- β7 September 2025koscioly
Anisaraki, Church of Saint Anna
One of the most iconographically striking churches in Selino.
- β5 September 2025biblistyka
How Much Judaism Remains in Eastern Orthodoxy β Part II
The prohibition against depicting God is one of those moments when we see how deeply the Christian East grows out of Judaism β and how sharply it diverges from the West.
- β1 September 2025biblistyka
How Much Judaism Remains in Eastern Orthodoxy β Part I
There is something in the Eastern tradition that immediately evokes the prayer and spiritual experience of the Old Testament: a way of relating to God not poured into personal emotion, but immersed in rhythm, repetition, community, and mystery.
- β21 August 2025kreta
Crete β a History Written in Lime
How I read Crete through limewash, frescos, and churches.