Jan 23, 2025 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
Archishop Lazar Puhalo on the Visible and Invisible Church QUESTION: In Western church tradition, there is a concept of the visible and invisible church, however we define that. Is there such a concept in Eastern Christianity? RESPONSE: There is, but there is not such...
Jun 22, 2024 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
A theology of reality & the human condition A theology of reality describes the human condition instead of creating dogmas about what we think it should be. It looks at the realities of the human condition to try to understand them in the light of understandings...
Mar 9, 2024 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
The word asceticism means "training," a strengthening of our will. An athlete is an ascetic who is training in his or her specific field of athletics. For Orthodox Christians, it is spiritual training, exercising our willpower,...
Mar 5, 2024 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
ARCHIPELAGO OF THE MIND [Lee Puhalo, 1963] the mind is an archipelago in the sea of the brain. islands of reason and uncontrolled emotions; of understanding and hopeless confusion of faith and skepticism shoals of loyalty and infidelity Isles of logic and passions of...
Feb 1, 2024 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
Mark 6:14-29 14 King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known. Some were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.” 15 Others said, “He is Elijah.” And still others...
Sep 26, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
I am offering an opinion that will be controversial but which I want to ask people to think about seriously before they respond. It is possible that the movement of Christian nationalism is led by people who no longer accept Christian apocalypticism and do not believe...
