Props for the Play
Next Step #410: Quest for Peace – a different way of looking at responsibility in Artsakh & Armenia. As clergy are placed as props* in the grand opera, here’s a […]
Entries by Vazken Movsesian
Effective Prayer & Protest
Next Step #409: Attack on Artsakh and Armenia. You’re asked to pray; now let’s make it effective. Are all wars really civil wars in the sight of God? Does God […]
Logical Proof
Next Step #408: What the early Apostolic Church tells us about the Resurrection. Post Resurrection and post Easter ties: Looking beyond faith to logic to explain the illogical. A miracle […]
Easter Vestments of Light
Next Step #407: Holy Week reflections and the prayer of Vesting; Finding the Vestment of the bare-footed, robed carpenter from Galilee amidst the ornamental nature of the Orthodox tradition. Topics: […]
When did we blow it?
Next Step #406: Meditations at Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion and on St. Patrick’s day begs the question: When did we lose sight of the goals? Justifying without checks and balances […]
Peace through Hell
Next Step #405: Jesus preaching in Hell? (I Peter 3) An Armodoxy Revelation finds the answers in prayers by St. Nersess Shnorhali. Also in this episode: the Seven Hours of […]
The Sound of One Hand
Next Step #404: The Zen koan as the backdrop for this Lenten meditation. Finding the Kingdom within and without as a Jesus-instructed First step. Armodoxy: Understanding faith as a means […]
Preempting Understanding
Next Step #403: As theoretical physics knocks on the doors of philosophy & religion opening a mysterious path to understanding, tolerance and acceptance. Bombardment during Lent and the quest for […]
Walls to Bridges
Next Step #402: Self/community issues; to building walls or bridges; Pope Francis comments on fundamental Christian issues. In this political climate, Trump gets argumentative about Christianity; A trip to Yettem, […]
Unapologetically Speaking
Next Step #401: East & West meet as Pope Francis & Patriarch Kirill rendezvous in Havana. Unapologetically speaking about Candlemas, Diaruntarch, bonefires and the Groundhog. Options for St. Valentine; Our […]
