Impacting Hope

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #718: “I love God but I feel God doesn’t love me enough,” says a Ukrainian soldier and analysis leads to paralysis: A look at hope, faith, religion in the face of war. Prayers that won’t “stop the bleeding or ease the hate.” Maternity ward bombing: Why would they possibly kill babies? An answer from Rwanda 25 years ago. The rules of war and the end game. TV was to Vietnam what the Internet can be to Ukraine, and War Games gives a solution. This Lent: A different attitude toward prayer: Adding the first lines to the Lord’s Prayer.
Maternity ward bombed in Ukraine
War Games
Jesus at M*A*S*H* 
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Cover Photo: Peace Shadow, Fr. Vazken 2008
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Caravan Dogs

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Caravan Dogs
Next Step with Fr. Vazken #717 – March 3, 2022 – Week 1 of the War in Ukraine: Our world barks and the caravan moves on. Praying with the preface given by Jesus. Loss and resilience: lecture notes shared.
Loss & Resilience by Fr. Vazken (video)
Lenten Journey
Forty Vegan Meals for Lent
Focused Vision
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for http://InHisShoes.org
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Nero & the War

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Nero & the War
Next Step with Fr. Vazken #716, February 24, 2022. Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned, so they tell us, taking him to a point of irrelevance as a leader. Today, Russian invades Ukraine, the country in flame and our reaction parallels the irrelevance of the Nero.
Putin Shatters Peace in Europe
Nero & the Fiddle
“A religious politician” – Head of US Ukrainian Orthodox Church slams Moscow Patriarch
Pope Francis Ukraine
Fr. Vazken on Vartanantz to the High School student
Cat Stevens
Cover: Angel playing Violin, 1945-1985, National Library of France, Public Domain|Engel, Muziek, Schilder
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Cellophane Reality

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #715: A check on reality- altered, augmented, synthesized or processed, from radio to ntf’s to the latest Webb telescope images. The groundwork for understanding: religion, belief and disbelief. The endless cycle of war and stepping out of the game via Armodoxy.
Does s/he exist?
Webb telescope
Monster galaxy discovered
Sarky Mouradian/Armenian Classic TV
Moog synthesizer
Wendy Carlos, Switched on Bach
Cover: Cellophane Reality, Fr. Vazken 2022
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Dawn Reset

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #714: Pressing the Reset button on life: Overcoming the fear of living. Selling the product: Super Bowl to church. Scanning the news from international, to national to local: can we connect the dots? Russian, Ukraine, Iran, the US and a 34:18 bet. Expertise through the Internet and other absurd notions about brake repair. Finding your talent, your gift and purpose in life. Symbols: Valentine, Sarkis and Love.
Parable of the Talents
Abp. Torkom “Impossible Love”
Superbowl Advertising
Superbowl Ticket prices
Precursor to Mindfulness
Gor’s Spirit Album
Gor Mkhitarian
Cover: Charlie’s candles, Feb 10, 2022
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Bittersweet

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Next Step #713: Bridges between bitterness and sweetness: how to build them and how to cross them, in this episode. A series of coincidences or blessings that lead to “Lessons from Grandma.” Celebrating a miracle bigger than the one at the Red Sea! A quick first look at “The Zealot Gene.”
St. Sarkis, San Diego Consecration
St. Sarkis – photographed 
Armenian America online – Priest of the People
The Zealot Gene
Cover: Bittersweet, thecapturedgarden.com
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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DerVaz: The People’s Priest

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A new publication, “The Armenian America” features a story on Fr. Vazken and In His Shoes.
From building with water protectors at Standing Rock and for Artsakh relief, to his almost twenty year old Annual MLK Jr. Retreat and organizing weekends with the homeless & incarcerated, Fr. Vazken Movsesian for decades has been making impact with everyday work. A joyful read of our beloved community force. It truly gave me the refuel I needed after a hard month. Hope it does for you too.
-Sophia Armen (The Armenian America)

Consecration and Transformation

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #712: Consecration! The power of the Holy Spirit to transform the inanimate to the living. On the eve of the Consecration of the new San Diego church, Fr. Vazken delves into the mystic ritual that touches our lives today. The Holy Trinity revealed in our service. Vachik Mangassarian: dared to stand with us.
Consecration of San Diego Armenian Church
Follow the Consecration at https://www.facebook.com/westerndiocese
Vachik Mangassarian Obituary
Fr. Mesrob’s last unction (Next Step #31)
St. Andrew, Cupertino
ANN Sample
Neil Young and Spotify
Needle and the Damage Done
Cover: “Sneak Peek” of the San Diego Church, 2022
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Open Cafe

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #711: Ordering and consuming exactly what you want and need – whether a meal, a matter of faith, a hamburger, a bowl of soup. Vantage points, geography and life circumstances in defining our religious understandings. The scorecard on chosenness.
Samaritan Woman and Jesus
Jesus beyond the three years
Joni Mitchell
Cover: Clifton’s Cafeteria
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Extreme Goals

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Next Step #710: Extremes and extremists, a reflection on the means of change. Pope, Church and Country. Martin Luther King holiday and another opportunity to focus on nonviolence and change.
MLK Retreat 2022 www.InHisShoes.org/MLK_retreat22
Pope Francis to the Diplomatic Corps
Letter from Birmingham
Carol King
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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