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Israel is coming back to life slowly. (Unfortunately this doesn’t pertain to air travel, which may be in hiatus until after Passover – but we don’t know anything for sure.) To celebrate coming out of our third lockdown we recently went to Jerusalem for an urban exploration.
Jesus Calms the Storm
“The need to see yourself in your chosen religion is not a trivial thing,” says Laura James, a New Yorkbased painter and illustrator. “With my work I am trying to offer an alternative to the ‘traditional’ images we find in Western religious art.”
Perhaps the most striking element of
Jesus Calms the Storm is her depiction of Jesus and His disciples. For anyone used to religious art depicting Christ and His followers as Anglo-Saxon in look, her portrayal of characters as dark-skinned individuals may be jarring to some but carries profound meaning.
“I grew up attending a Brethren church with my Caribbean family in Brooklyn, New York. We were not allowed to image Bible characters, and there was no art on the walls,” she says. “However, we did have children’s Bibles filled with fantastic images! Although surrounding characters were light brown in color, perhaps reflecting Middle Eastern people, Jesus was unbelievably White, with blond hair an
The online gallery Russian Icon Collection is pleased to share the amazing news that the Museum of the Russian Icon in Moscow is now open to the public.
New York, NY (PRUnderground) January 27th, 2021
The online gallery Russian Icon Collection is pleased to share the amazing news that the renowned Museum of the Russian Icon in Moscow is now open to the public. Starting from January 22, 2021, everyone passionate about Orthodox Christian art can visit the permanent exposition at the Museum, as well as a temporary exhibition of the icon of the Release of the Apostle Peter from the Dungeon from Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Kozhevniki, which is organized in collaboration with the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve. The Museum of the Russian Icon is open for visitors every day, except Wednesday, from 11am to 7pm. Admission is free.
Religion Bulletin: Religion instruction is abolished in Russia
RELIGIOUS EVENTS IN HISTORY
On Jan. 20, 1918, following the Bolshevik Revolution, all church property is confiscated and all religious instruction in schools is abolished across Russia. In an effort to establish state atheism, the Communist government targeted religions based on state interests and became the first state with the official ideology of eliminating existing religion and preventing the future implementation of religious belief. Although most organized religions were not outlawed, believers were harassed and ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools following the revolution. Personal expressions of religious faith were not banned, but the government imposed a strong social stigma and it was considered unacceptable for members of certain government professions (teachers, bureaucrats, soldiers) to be openly religious and anti-secular.