A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Miki Knezevic

Miki Knezevic is a writer and lives in Madison, WI. She is a professional author who writes both fiction and non-fiction: articles, short stories, textbooks, a novel. She recently published her first novel, Behind God's Back, which is now available on Amazon.com.

Combining studies in English, teaching and writing, she joined a college colleague, Brenda Wegmann, to write textbooks in English as a Second Language (ESL). They have been writing ESL textbooks for over 25 years for Random House and McGraw-Hill. Their series, Interactions/Mosaic, has been successful and sells worldwide. Miki and Brenda do the reading books in the Mosaic series. She also has taken courses in Journalism and fiction writing. Miki Knezevic has written articles for Parade magazine, The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison Magazine and Serb World.

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Recently she has finished a historical novel called Behind God's Back. The story takes place in Europe between 1912 and 1962. A strong female character, Desa Jovanovic, medical doctor, faces World War I, World War II and the Communist era. Fighting for the lives of her patients and her family takes patience and courage; Desa's life and the lives of those she loves are in danger of extinction many times in during these difficult years. How Desa, her family, and friends survive these terrible historical occurrences, or don't, make for exciting and emotional reading.

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Svetlana Rakic

A native of former Yugoslavia, Dr. Svetlana Rakic earned her master’s degree in art history from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and her doctorate in art history from Indiana University. She is the author of several books on Serbian Orthodox icons and the interrelatedness of modern art and religious thought. Most recently, she has published the book Art and Reality Now: Serbian Perspectives (New York: A. Pankovich Publishers, 2014).

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0