Chavdar is a pretty village about seventy kilometres due east of Sofia, a little south of the main road, the…
Izgrev Revisited
Today I revisited Izgrev, meaning ‘Sunrise’ in Bulgarian, the old artists’ and writers’ quarter of Sofia, where I lived when…
Nativity: The Eye of a Needle
The light is a star, the Infant a spool. The Virgin Mary no longer holds a distaff and spindle. She…
Christ Pantocrator: The Translator of Man
Who is Christ? Not only the one we know about from the Bible and Sacred Tradition, but also the one…
Turner and the Orthodox Liturgy
Turner paid a visit to the Schöllenen Gorge in 1802. This gorge is formed by the upper Reuss, a river…
I AM
There is a very important distinction in grammar between countable and uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns are generally concepts, things that…
Turner: The Man and the Angel
Turner’s painting Sun Setting over a Lake is one of a group of paintings, ‘Late Unfinished Sea Pieces’, whose dating…
ONE
It is remarkable that the number 1 is a straight line. We teach our children to count from the number…
Turner and the Uncreated Light
The Uncreated Light is a very important doctrine in Eastern Orthodoxy that was first formulated by St Gregory Palamas in…
Stones Of Ithaca 