Entries by Vazken Movsesian

Starting 14 Challenged

Next Step #680: Beginning our 14th Year of broadcasting the Next Step. Sorting the files, reflecting and reminiscing – from the early days in an old Victorian in Hollywood. Elections […]

Post-God Authority

Next Step #679: Finding authority in a post-God world. Defining boundaries and parameters for defining Christ, Christianity and real magic. A look at life after cancer, plus 10: Crutches, friendship […]

Change

Next Step #678: What needs to change to bring about peace? Moving from the personal – habits – to the global – peace/harmony: the first steps of bringing about change. […]

The Big Dot

Next Step #677: The dots get connected between the Christ’s Cross and the “Lynching Trees.” James Cone and Black Liberation Theology, works that resonate with and for us. Understanding as […]

Authenticated Faith

  Next Step #676: Faith authenticated by questioning God. Liberation Theology and its message today. Discovering our ethics from an authenticated faith. Camel, water and murder. Blacks to McKinley/Armenians to […]

Teeter Totter

Next Step #675: Ascension Day, fighting in Syunik, response. Taking Archimedes’ principle of fulcrums to leverage change against the odds. Common sense weaponry for the world. Changing the conversation to […]

Offerings

Next Step #674: Azerbaijanis in the Armenian Church at Shushi under the guise of renovation. Archbishop Barkev of Artsakh, speaking from a place of authority and a mystical place. Some […]

Downshifting

Next Step #673: Post Genocide-recognition- downshifting to use lower gears to go faster. Fr. Vazken talks about the importance of the genocide tag and some of the dangers of the […]

Reiteration

Next Step #672: On the eve of the Armenian Genocide anniversary: Challenges to the necessity or nuisance side of remembrance. Genocide: The voices that matter. George Floyd murder trial. Keith […]

VC1: Not just a Greeting

Voice of the Church Series – #1 By order of His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church, the “Voice of the Church” was […]