Reminder...

With our next post, only paid subscribers will have access (except for the occasional public post). I make my living through the sale of icons, giving lectures, and offering courses. Sometimes demand is up and sometimes down, so a steady income has never been “my way” of getting by — although I do get by, for which I give thanks.

This Substack page takes time and effort to produce, and I hope to improve it as time goes by (and your input will always be welcome if you have suggestions about how I might make it better). With that in mind, I don’t offer it free of charge, although I have kept subscription rates as low as I can and, in fact, lower than the amounts Substack recommends. I hope you will come to regard it as worth the cost! And please recommend it to friends who might also be interested in iconography.

My next two posts will be on the subject of “saints.” If Christ is the Icon of God, saints are icons of Christ, revealing in many and various ways facets of Christ’s character. They are like prisms through which the divine light shines, broken into a spectrum of different colors. Hence, icons of saints adorn our churches — they are icons in paint of the flesh-and-blood icons of the true Icon of God. We will explore this in September.

I hope you’ll join me.