Eastern Orthodoxy, though shaped in the Greek world, thinks about God far more like Israel than like late Latin Europe.
If there is anywhere a nameless yet still pulsating core of Judaism preserved within Eastern Christianity, it is in the liturgy.
One of the most remarkable churches in Selino in terms of its iconographic programme.
The prohibition against depicting God is one of those moments when we see how deeply the Christian East grows out of Judaism – and how sharply it diverges from the West.
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.
How I read Crete through limewash, frescos, and churches.
What shook me – and why it wasn’t the earthquake.
A great feast and a great story told in icons and frescoes.
What annoys me, irritates me, and makes me laugh. Zero pomp, lots of side-eye.
Small, beautiful, and wrapped in local legend.
The birth of a new island on an old map.
The story of one church from Giuseppe Gerola’s monumental catalog.
