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A2: Greece: Design Exercise 1: Learning to use the Brush.

Posted on 13th April 2020

In the Online icon Course, linking the history of the Church to the development of iconography, we have now started the second set of exercises based on the classical cultures which influenced icon painting. We are looking at A2 Ancient … Continue reading →

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Hellenic Judaism, Icons & Gold

Posted on 16th June 2018

It is a long time since I updated the News, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening! As I am now at a monastery in Greece, life has changed quite a lot. I can no longer do the one-to-one online tuition … Continue reading →

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Judaism: podcast lecture: Sacrifices & Birds

Posted on 5th March 2018

This is the continuation of an excursus about sacrifices – perhaps appropriate that we have got here at the start of Lent! We all talk about ‘making sacrifices’ and the ‘paschal sacrifice’ but this is in context of a long … Continue reading →

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Judaism: Podcast Lecture: Plagues & Stars

Posted on 27th December 2017

This is the beginning of a short series on the theme ‘Battle of the Gods.’ The Torah (Ex.12:12/Numbers 33:4) states that the plagues are selected explicitly to defeat and humiliate the gods and symbols of Pharaonic Egypt. It’s not kidding! When … Continue reading →

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Judaism: Podcast Lecture:The two Leaders, Joseph & Moses

Posted on 27th December 2017

I nearly called this ‘In and Out’! The leader who gets Israel into Egypt is separated, by nearly four hundred years, from the leader who gets Egypt out of Egypt! Joseph is a seer in the same mould as Daniel. … Continue reading →

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