Memories of Purity: Thoughts at a funeral
Memories of Purity Some thoughts and ties following a funeral… by Fr. Vazken Movsesian No matter how many or how often I have officiated at funerals, I cannot get used […]
Entries by Vazken Movsesian
Dalmatic Ease
Next Step #682: Finding a shirt inside the dalmatic: simple steps toward relevance. Altering the altar area: how we went from dinner table to ornate altar and now searching for […]
When VR was all we had
Next Step #681: The virtual church, the virtual nation and virtual Armenia existed long before the pandemic forced virtual realities to interact. Looking beyond the politics of the latest election. […]
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 […]
