[MarMema]

In the Orthodox church, each year, we celebrate the victory against the iconoclasts on our annual Sunday of Orthodoxy.
We join together here with some 14 other Orthodox churches and we all display our icons. Just happened a few weeks ago, in fact.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

In the Orthodox church, each year, we celebrate the victory against the iconoclasts on our annual Sunday of Orthodoxy. We join together here with some 14 other Orthodox churches and we all display our icons. Just happened a few weeks ago, in fact.

You Eastern Orthodox may have celebrated your "victory against the iconoclasts" a bit too soon. After all, eight centuries later, the Iconoclastic Protestants came along.

But then, of course, you have the occasional OP Protestant who looks back fondly on the velcro-puppets-on-feltboard Vacation Bible Schooling of my youth, and think to myself: "You know, though as a Protestant I should be loathe to admit it... I was learning the Bible iconically."

I still can't bring myself to venerate Icons, per se. But as an ancient and hallowed means of Instruction and Contemplation -- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, I always say.

"We dare not allow our interpretation of the second commandment to lead us into a docetic diminution of the Reality of the Incarnation." ~~ Rev. Dr. Greg Bahnsen, Orthodox Presbyterian (RIP)

best, OP