May 26, 2022 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
QUESTION: Vladika, can you say something about the meaning of "testing the Spirit." What does that mean and can you give an example? REPLY: One of the surest ways in our regular experience to "test the Spirit" is in the Divine...
May 7, 2022 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
The mystery of redemption is co-suffering love, not divine revenge in the form of a substitutionary sacrifice. The Orthodox concept of redemption may be briefly epitomized as follows. While “atonement” is not a usual Orthodox Christian term or expression,...
Apr 8, 2022 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
This is Part I of Archbishop Lazar's presentation to the CEMES symposium in Thessaloniki, Greece (29 March, 2022). INTENT The intent of this paper is to explore the general background of the present invasion of Ukraine and then focus on the problem of the...
Sep 19, 2021 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN JOHN THE BAPTIST AND HEROD: THE REST OF THE STORY St. John the Baptist was preaching across the Jordan River at Bethany of Peraea, that little strip of land east of the Jordan that belonged to a Galilee. Only later did he came across into...
Aug 17, 2021 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
REFLECTION ON MODES OF FUTURE THOUGHT(an invited paper for the Big History Congress, 2011) Lazar Puhalo Modes of Future Thought: Can strategic concepts move beyond ideology? Political Ideologies and “GlobalThought”: Can there be a Synthesis of Scientific...
Jul 28, 2021 | Author - Lazar Puhalo
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.” –Revelation 16:1 It is simply a fact – a difficult reality – that some parts of the world which are now inhabited are becoming...
