Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...

We’ve all seen extraordinary stained glass windows in churches, museums and some friends’ homes. Art nouveau and art deco style homes and public buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity – Percy Bysshe Shelley I often find peacefulness in a soaring stone church, a cool open place to sit and contemplate.

Whatever religion we classify ourselves as – or even if we actively renounce or denounce organized religion in all its forms – the one aspect of Christianity those in predominantly Christian countries ...