The Turn-it-off Solution

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken, The Turn-it-off Solution, #806 – September 21, 2025
Freedom, Independence and Speech in America on the anniversary of Armenian Independence. Step-by-step instructions on how to turn off what you reject. Checks and balances. Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death, Palestinian death. Editorial perogative. Varakakhatch coming up: The Stones will speak, they did and do in Varak. Rallying around the Shnorhali formula of Unity in Essentials.
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Music to share: Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
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Next Step Interview with Tigranna Zakaryan (805SE)

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“Navigating the World as an Armenian,” NS805_091025

Candid Conversation with Tigranna Zakarian
Internation Human Rights Activist, Refugee Response Coordinator
This is the soundtrack (AUDIO ONLY) of Next Step #805
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Recorded September 2025
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NS804SE – Dr. Sophia Armen Conversation (Audio)

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This is the soundtrack (AUDIO ONLY) of Next Step #804

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Sophia Armen, Ph.D., on Armenian Christian Identity and Activism in the World Today

The Next Step with Fr. Vazken, SE, August 9, 2025

Activism in a world plagued by intolerance, war and even genocide. Here is a must-listen-to interview with Sophia Armen, a fresh voice, who shares her views on identity, activism and global challenges. Sophia Armen is a community organizer and scholar from Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Armen serves as Executive Director of Armenian-American Advancement Network and as Co-Chair of the CA Middle Eastern and North African-American Civil Rights Coalition. She holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies and has been active in a diverse array of community initiatives.

Recorded: 1 August 2025

From Dr. Armen’s website: Dr. Sophia Armen is a Middle Eastern-American feminist organizer, scholar, and writer. She holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. Her research “A Peoples’ History of Middle Eastern-Americans, 1890-1930” focuses on the racialization of Middle Eastern peoples in the United States, from the perspectives of organizers and refugees through feminist theory and methodologies. She has been building in the feminist, SWANA, and survivor justice movements in the United States for over 15 years. She is a descendant of genocide survivors from Kharpert, Van, Hadjin and Istanbul. She served as the Co-Chair of The FF.

The Conversation: Compassion (even at 17)

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Next Step #803 – June 18, 2025

War and peace, as the world bunkers up for more aggressive rhetoric. Is it Pandora’s box? Or is there a way of go back to the message of overcoming violence with love? Compassion as measured through shoe sizes. The torture a prisoner in our midst. Fr. Vazken reflects about the 17th anniversary of the Next Step the purpose of this podcast today.
Music: “Hrashk” by Gor Mkhitarian
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Artist Rendering: Suzie & Fr. Vazken recording the Next Step in the early days of Epostle at the Glendale studio

Unapologetic Apologies

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Next Step #802 – May 17, 2025 – Unapologetic Apologies – Pope Leo XIV’s papacy begins with a message of peace offered by the pontiff. Fr. Vazken breaks it down, and shares thoughts about the office of the successor of St. Peter and the Bishop Rome. “Unity in Essentials, Liberty in Secondary Matters, Charity in all things.” Who is the Bishop of the Ararat Valley? Synodality: The Catholics Discover what we’ve known. Unapologetically Fr. Vazken shares wishes and prayers to and for the Pope. And then… Apologetically a  look at genocide happening now, Gaza included. How the world stays silent in the face of atrocities of the magnitude of genocide. Why “Never Again” didn’t mean never again. No politics just human compassion is the call of the day. And more…
Pope Leo XIV first words…
Luys Vocal Quintet. Naregatsi Art Institute
The Pete Rose story
Leveraging Love
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Humanitarian: Non-Political

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Humanitarian: Non political

Next Step #801 – April 25, 2025 – Another opportunity lost: 110 years since the Armenian Genocide and still self-pitying and at a loss of words (read: nerve) to talk about other genocides, falling victim of politics and political correctness. Humanitarian issues becoming politics. A first look at the passing of Pope Francis and his legacy of humility.
Worth 1000+ words (Pope)
Armenian Monument in Montebello as historic landmark
Pope Francis Passes Away
Instead of Mourning a Genocide, Stop One
Gregory Beylerian: visual arts to art of articulation (Echos of Ararat)
Rwandan Blog
Armodoxy for Today
Araksia Gyulzadyan
Leveraging Love
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Realigned on Track

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Next Step #800 – February 22, 2025 – Back on track, episode #800 is a recharge, realignment and recommitment to the goals and purpose of the Next Step. The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Montebello is designated as a California Historic Landmark. Fr. Vazken shares his thoughts as he sits through a ceremony that recalls the past, praises the present and offers questionable options for the future. Remembrance of the opening days in 1968. In this episode you’ll hear a move from hopelessness to a realignment of purpose for the Next Step podcast and his ministry.
Montebello Monument Historic Landmark Ceremony (video)
Prayer over Montebello Monument – Historic Landmark Designation
Coverage: Montebello Monument Designated Historic Landmark
ABC Coverage of Monument Designation
Leveraging Love is the Next Step
The Mother Ship: Epostle.net
Life is a Long Song by Jethro Tull
Daily Podcasts – Armodoxy for Today – epostle
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The Solstice: Sun and Son Light

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Next Step #799 – December 21, 2022 – The Winter Solstice signals the birth of the Sun days begin to grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere. In a comparison of Sunlight with Sonlight, Fr. Vazken shares some ideas that prepare and challenge the listener to tap into the Christ light within. Welcome to Noor.
Show note links:
Why January 6 for Christmas?
Probe to the Sun
Halleluia by Leonard Cohen
Christmas Song by Jethro Tull
Daily Message on the Solstice
Daily Podcasts – Armodoxy for Today – epostle
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Gump-Priest at Thanksgiving

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Next Step #798 – November 28, 2024 – The Thanksgiving edition. Transition moments of life – from mom, to the Nairi Computer, to politics, to wars. The Forest-Gumpish nature of the priesthood embraced. Being there. A look at angels and the aftermath of the US elections.
Links
Six years without mom
Christine – “One Less Listener”
Hratchya Hovsepyan and the Nairi Computer
Carl Sagan – Contact
President Reagan – the Politician & the Minister
The Centurian of Great Faith
La Vie En Rose – Louise Armstrong
Daily Podcasts – Armodoxy for Today – epostle
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Pre-Election Bouquet

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Pre-election Bouquet

Next Step #797 – October 31, 2024 – Less than a week before the US Elections. Thoughts in a changing world. The voice of moral authority in a silent world. A pipeline from floods to draught? Here’s the plan: Drop the war. The myth of end times explored and exposed. And more…
Pope Francis – select the lesser of the two evils
Daily Podcasts – Armodoxy for Today – epostle
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