Impulse Buying of Love
Next Step Podcast Episode #5 – July 16, 2008 When Peter accepts Jesus invitation to be a fisher of people (Matthew 4), he and his brother Andrew are impulse […]
Entries by Vazken Movsesian
Repent or Perish
Next Step #4 Pain and suffering is experienced on different scales, whether on a grand scale as when natural disasters strike, or as experienced on the personal or individual […]
Freedom to Create Through Love
Next Step #3 Independence Day is a fitting time to look at our freedoms through the lens of Armenian Orthodoxy. What has been the strength of the Armenian people […]
Vartavar – The Transfiguration Feast
Next Step #2 This coming Sunday is referred to as Vartavar; a pagan feast transfigured into a Christian one. So today Fr. Vazken takes the next step to a […]
The Next Step is a New Step
Next Step #1 With this premiere broadcast, Fr. Vazken takes the next step in exploring Armenian Orthodoxy. God is experienced as Mystery, deep and inscrutable. Tune in and take this […]
Styrofoam, a Green Valley and Recycling Junk
Before it was known as Silicon Valley, the area around San Jose – the Santa Clara Valley, was also known as the Valley of the Heart’s Delight. The phrase described […]
Celebrating (not mourning) Sardarabad – 90 years later
I love the song “Sardarabad.” I love the first lines… “Yerp chi munoom yelk noo jar, khenteru en kdnoom hunar…” [roughly translated = When there exist NO means of […]
Fallen Grains of Wheat – Revisted
At the Requiem Service in the Armenian Orthodox Church, the Holy Gospel according to St. John, is read. Arguably, it is the most heard passage in the Armenian Church today, […]
Is all money, money?
Several years ago (around the early 90’s) the infamous arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian was making headlines in the Armenian press by donating to Armenian organizations and churches. He had appeared […]
An Angel’s Life Does Not End
Sunday mornings, I place my cell phone on my desk before entering the church. I figure those couple of hours in the church can be spent without being wirelessly tethered […]
