Orthodox Christians should write and paint and sing and dance. We should make
movies and television shows. We should make clothes and produce textiles as art
as well (the fullness of culture is itself too large to describe in a sentence,
a paragraph or even a book). And in all these activities, they will be
expressive of the fullness of our humanity without having to stick an icon on
everything to prove its Orthodoxy.
-- Father Stephen in Glory to God for All Things
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2006-12-24
It’s the Sunday before Christmas. It’s usually not so immediately before Christmas as this year, which makes for a strange succession of days, as if we’re having a Holy Sunday the way we have Holy Saturday before Easter. But it’s a normal Sunday before Christmas regardless, celebrating the Fathers of the Old Testament, and the Gospel reading is Matthew 1:
