today's podcast is an interview with Andrew Gould, the creative young architect who designed Holy Ascension OCA church in Mt. Pleasant, SC (right outside Charleston.) The form of the building is taht of a small, classic Byzantine temple, but the materials are local--pine, stucco, old, re-used bricks. A detail I particulary like is that the wooden door pulls are based on a specific hand-carved door handle in an old home in the Tennessee mountains--the pulls were carved by a Charlestonian. This combination of classic form and local material is very intentional, and results in a fascinating building.
here's a link to the church's website page about building the church. They did much of the work themselves: Holy Ascension building plan <http://www.ocacharleston.org/building.html> And here's teh podcast: <http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/podup/frederica/byzanatine_architecture>Podcast: Interview with Andrew Gould<http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/podup/frederica/byzanatine_architecture> I've been publishing much less in the last few months. I asked to be off the movie beat for the fall, because Paraclete Press asked me to write a book on the Jesus Prayer, and after much misgiving (they originally asked almost 3 years ago) I have finally plunged in. Please pray for me to have clarity of mind, because I find that everything is trying to be said first. It's hard to present the different-ness of the eastern church's understanding, because everything depends on defining something else first. And I am a disorganized writer. I can't make outlines. I start at the top and just go, and with something ths complex I have trouble. I was able to present some of the text at St George Church in Keene, NH this past weekend, and feedback is always a help. At present, the entire text (so far) is lying on my dining room table, where I cut it apart wth scissors and taped it back together! However I have a few interesting pieces waiting to be published--a response to the frequent charge that tehre is no God, or he's a bad God, because of the existence of evil; a reflection on my time as a consultant to Veggie Tales / Big Idea Inc; an essay on learning to love the Virgin Mary; an essay on the Mall; and a commentary on abortion and politics that I submitted to NPR, but haven't heard yet whether they will take it. So, tehre's more to come. Mostly, though, I'm trying to push through the book, and your prayers are appreciated. ******** Frederica Mathewes-Green www.frederica.com
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