Sep 26, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
THE TREES OF PARADISE, a prologue for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross"Meaning" is so often the missing dimension in religious teaching and deliberations. When religious people debate about the creation narrative in Genesis, they leave a certain...
Sep 19, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
The Twelve Great Feast Days: A Verbal IconographyWhen we enter an Orthodox Church, we do not encounter images of the 12 stations of the Cross but the icons of the 12 great feast days. This is because we understand that the entire life of Christ, from his incarnation...
Aug 31, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
THE THEOLOGY OF THE OCTOECHOSVladika Lazar The hymnology of the "Octoechos” [the “Eight Tones”] continuously focuses us on the alienation of man that occurred in paradise. Satan tempted Adam and Eve, not merely to eat the fruit of the tree, but to...
Aug 19, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
Many Christian theorists believe that humanity is a collection of Karl Capek's Robots, or mechanical robots, empty and waiting for the right programmer. The inner strength that man finds within himself is there because he is created in the image and likeness of...
Jul 6, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
The deliberations and debates of the holy fathers with heresies are of no small moment. Why, for example, was it of such great necessity to refute Arius at Nicaea, Evtikios at Chalcedon, and Nestorius at Ephesus? They were defending the very nature of redemption in...
May 15, 2023 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
We are in a transitional stage in which much of the popular certainty of the postwar era is slowly fading. In such an era, and when politics is no longer an elitist enterprise but a more populist one, the politician who can rouse the passions of the crowd will gain a...
