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An Interview with Iconographer Julia Bridget Hayes
18 November 2015
Julia Bridget Hayes is a talented iconographer working in Greece. Her work is a truly wonderful example of creativity within tradition. We asked to interview her and to share these images of her work ... 
The goldsmiths of Meleniko
Anna Ballian
17 November 2015
The attribution of items of silverware to local workshops is fraught with difficulty where there are no documented inscriptions, and was until recently based exclusively on tradition, normally handed ...
Euthanasia: Turning your back on the opportunity for glorification
Vassiliki Katsaouni
16 November 2015
With euthanasia, people aren’t making use of the right for a dignified death. Instead of making the most of this extremely trying time in the life of the patient as an opportunity for glorification, t...
Drawing Closer to the Mother of God during Advent
15 November 2015
Veronica Hughes examines the mysteries surrounding the life of the Mother of God to help us prepare for the Nativity of Christ. In this episode Veronica draws on the wisdom of St. Gregory Palamas and ...
Peace is always possible
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana
14 November 2015
The most tragic violence today is the misuse of the term peace by people who do not really believe in it. Nevertheless, the human longing for a world wide peaceful coexistence remains permanent. Ev...
The Pectoral Ornament of Saint Makarios of Corinth
Anna Ballian
13 November 2015
The only work of the early post-Byzantine centuries to have been located in the sacristy of the Monastery of Vatopaidi is a small pectoral reliquary (enkolpion) of the early 16th century, representati...
The icon of Our Lady Vematarissa from Vatopaidi Monastery
Anna Ballian
12 November 2015
The ‘palladium’ of the Monastery of Vatopaidi is the famous icon of Our Lady Vematarissa or Ktitorissa, which was saved from the Saracen raid by being kept for 70 years in the well below the sanctuary...
Metropolitan Nikolaos: “Global Financial Crisis and Crisis of Faith”
11 November 2015
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogea and Lavreotiki talks about global financial crisis and crisis of faith...
Creation Care and Ecological Justice
Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
9 November 2015
The Oxford Union, November 4, 2015
Distinguished members of the Oxford Union,
Esteemed administrators, faculty and friends of the University,
Dear students,
It is a unique pleasure and a great...
The Art of Carving of Mount Athos, 17th-early 18th Centuries
Anna Ballian
7 November 2015
The carving of wooden crosses is regarded as an art traditionally practiced by Athonite monks. Ioannis Komninos in 1698 and the Jesuit priest Braconnier in 1706 both refer to the carved wooden pectora...
