What is the role of the artist in relation to Art itself? Pavel Florensky inspires us through his account of iconographers and their spiritual life.
As writers and artists we can easily lose sight of the goal, the vision, of our work here on earth–we can lose sight of the Way.
Canadian artist and writer Michael O’Brian’s letter to fellow writers and artists is all about the creation of art and spiritual practice–in essence, becoming saints.
Christ is the Logos, the Eternal Tao, the One Who Is. Christ is therefore the Way of creating. In His image, how must we create?
Father Seraphim Rose was a monk, priest, and a powerful writer. He believed he had a small window of time to write before the apocalypse.
Living a poetic life is indeed for everyone–not just for writers and composers. St. Porphyrios says that poetic hearts embrace love and sense it deeply.
In his Nobel Prize speech, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn reveals the connection between Art and Courage, and the artist’s responsibility to stand for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.
St. Patrick’s life is juxtaposed against the hedonism of the popular Guinness suffused St Patrick’s Day. Indeed St. Patrick was a humble monk and ascetic.
This post is all about the most important realization for any creative work, for any endeavour–indeed for life itself: That, above all, you are loved.
Alexander Schmemann shows us the deep connection between Chrismation and becoming one’s self. From this point of departure, creativity as union with God is conceptualized.
Father Antony Paul