Of Stained Glass and the Stories Churches Tell

"True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility." - James A. Garfield

There is an artistry to stained glass. It is not just in the colors and shadings, but in a way so subtle that most contemporary stained glass artists neither practice it nor know of it.

It’s called Type and Anti-Type.

If one should walk into an ancient church, staring up the center aisle towards the altar, and then turn and look to his or her left, one m…