Reaffirming IHS
Next Step #464: Post Genocide-Commemoration analysis. Need material? Just listen to the rhetoric and react. The Promise – the movie and the reaction. A Commemorative Celebration through the Liturgy. Witnessing […]
Entries by Vazken Movsesian
Reds’ Formula
Next Step #463: Pre-opening thoughts on “The Promise.” Easter in Portland Oregon. The Supervisors of LA and patronizing Armenians at the expense of the martyrs, Armenian Genocide Commemoration. Alternative Services […]
A Tear and a Smile
Next Step #462: The Easter Edition – A journey through Holy Week as only Fr. Vazken can provide. Music and metaphors taking you from the tear Jesus wept at Lazarus’ […]
New Pills from Shnorhali
Next Step #461: “I Confess with Faith” – a reading. Coping with Anxiety with Xanax and Faith. A thing about degrees and status: An end to spitting against the wind. […]
The Power of the Other
Next Step #460: Interview with Yvette Hovsepian Bearce, regarding refugees, faith, Christian duties/responsibilities and faith in action. Dr. Hovsepian Bearce speaks candidly about her personal experience as a refugee and […]
Old Church: New Maturity
Next Step #459: Reclaim reverberates: Is there a possible avalanche of reclamation ahead of us? Armenian flag over Standing Rock – a symbol of solidarity and a pointer to symbols […]
Reclaimed and Claimed
Next Step #458: Putting it all together after the Reclaim Conference, Fr Vazken reflects on the energy of the new day. What happened and what to expect. Also: Overcoming the […]
Refocus, Return, Reclaim
Next Step #457: The Weekend of the Prodigal Son brings a story of redemption, a story of recovery and of course, reclaim. On the eve of an unprecedented Christian […]
Lenten Consumption
Next Step #456: Lenten exercise to look beyond the abstinence models and engage the spiritual. Ashes to ashes is just as valid as dust to dust: So too with cremation. […]
No Slowdown
Next Step #455: Priest and Warrior: Introspection and assignments at the Feasts of Ghevontyants and Vartanants. Post-notes on post-Standing Rock. The priest and the politician: disappointment and delight. The missing […]
