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  1. Ioannes

    Icons made with pencils or felt pens

    Hello all, Before posting this, I searched extensively online both on other sites and this forum I also asked to orthodox acquaintances and a parishioner, to no avail. Is it possible to draw an icon with colored pencils or felt pens, or watercolors, provided a "canonical" stile is met and all...
  2. Ioannes

    Genesis 34: Simeon and Levi massacre inhabitants in Shechem

    I just read this chapter and did a brief search online. I'm trying to understand whether there is any currently valid morale in this story, or if I should just dismiss it as a tale within Genesis that bears no value today. Of course I'm not reflecting on whether we can avenge the rape of a...
  3. Ioannes

    Confronting parents and relatives

    Yesterday I had dinner outside with my parents (we don't live together since last June), and at some point the discussion turned to the topic of religion and specifically of my current thought on homosexual couples. The debate didn't heat up because of the public context and because I was kept...