Unmasking Halloween

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Next Step #595: What’s under the mask? Strip search and the necessity to cry while peeling an onion and the layers that mask our selves and our lives. What we lost as the US Congress recognized the Genocide. Beyond mourning: applying tragedy to the betterment of our life. The “3 Year Contract”: Another element in the Armodoxy equation. Justifying ideas as Christian even though they are out of sync with reality – 2000 years ago and today. Cafeteria Christianity and making it work for you: Nothing new here. “Center of Attention” debuts this weekend! Harry Houdini “darelitz”, zombies, standard time and much more, all in this edition of the Next Step.
Dun Ringil by Jethro Tull
Commemorate a Genocide by focusing today
Adam Schiff on Genocide Resolution
Fr. Manoog Markarian on Halloween (Armenian)
Fr. Vazken on Halloween (English)
Fr. Vazken on Fear and Halloween (1995)
God, Lemmy & The Walking Dead: The Gospel According To Ian Anderson
Cover: Piqsels.com, Public Domain
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Realigned to the Road Ahead

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Next Step #594: The Genocide is not a bargain chip nor a punishment: Rejecting a political solution for sacred remembrance. A look and re-look at a true mission for ourselves and our collective energy, as prescribed by Christ himself. “For this I was ordained…” (Luke 4) and its meaning today. Finding the poor, the brokenhearted, captives, blind and oppressed – in the here and now – not too far from home. A special Fr. Vazken annual review and one of the essentials for the In His Shoes and Armodoxy understanding!
Dizzy Gillespie – Odyssey
Salt Peanuts
Essentially Anush – Line drawings
Tweeting from Fr. Krikor’s Ordination
Luke 4
Western Diocese website http://www.wdacna.com/
Cover: Road in Jermuk, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Between the Rocks: Peace Today

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Next Step #593: Syria attacked by Turkey. Fr Vazken gives the IHS response – overcoming evil and our obligation to peace, as Christians and Armenians who have been on the receiving end of the Turkish sword. Includes a prayer for peace. Connecting dots from the weekend: Holy Translators, the widow’s offering and our voice for peace.
Junior Choir of St Sahag & St. Mesrob Armenian Church
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam, A time to break silence”
Next Step #8a – 08/08/08
In His Shoes Mission
Cover: Jermuk hike, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Presumption of Coincidence

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Next Step #592: From Nebraska to Sasnashen the path and trail of a blessing. Optimism vs leadership: Vazken I and clergy greats of the 20th century. Noah, Hayk and his granddaughter. McCarthyism and the Presumption of Innocence. Opportunity missed: Aurora, prejudice, blessing vs coincidence.
Ginger Baker “I Lu Kron”
Sasnashen Update
Conference on 20th Century Clergy
Fr. Zaven Arzoumian on Vazken I (book download)
Ginger Baker drumming video
Miss Nebraska Lex Najarian
Cover: Armenian Lady Bug Found, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Good Fish

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Next Step #591: Returning from Armenia, the opening of the Sasnashen Youth Center, visits to the sacred and the meaning behind them. Forgiveness in action – hugging the perpetrators of the crime. A new and healthier definition for fanaticism connected to the love of God. Reading English in Armenian (like transliteration…) and a case for foreign obsessions. Why the monasteries? the language? the 36 letters? and an Armodox answer.
Nazeli by Haig Yazedjian
Hugging the Murderer
Sasnashen Article 1
Sasnashen Article 2
Cover: Coke & Beer, Dilijan 2019, Fr. Vazken
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