Before Refrigeration

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #699: Adopting the Cross and Jesus from Biblical times and now: clues to the adoption process. The danger of Revelation and the nonsense of non-denominationalism. Gorbachev’s revelation. Halloween, death, and afterlife before and after refrigeration units. Beginning the process of extracting media from SM. And… answering the questions should Uma have been Yvonne?
Loving as your son: St. Joseph’s example
Purgatory Concept from Maccabees
In Step with Christ: Halloween, Masks and Saints
Few Minutes with Der Hayr (1994): Halloween and Fear
Vernacular Verbose Special ed. 
Vitamin String Quartet
Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for InHisShoes.org
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Meeting Joseph Again

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #698: A personal journey to meet the adoptive father of Jesus. Here is an encounter that begins 39 years ago, comes to a meeting and steps toward a sermon of compassion and care. Religion in America: the mixture of politics and religion, the Evangelical Church and Christianity for the rest. Religion as the lubricants and conductor to furthering political agendas, a caution and appeal to reason.
Meet the Press 10/17/21
Colin Powell passing
Joseph & Mary’s son (blog)
Superman III
Cassandra Wilson
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Back to Fantasy

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #697: Pope Francis calls 40 religious leaders to discuss global issues. Three brothers reunited after a couple millennia. William Shatner in space and Superman drawing and erasing lines between fantasy and reality. Religion beyond Sunday mornings: harmony of religion with the world.
HH Karekin’s message “People as Brothers, Earth’s Future: Religions and Cultures in Dialogue”
HH Karekin with HH Francis
Three brothers reunited
Encyclical Laudato Si
Inside the Vatican
William Shatner’s comments back on Earth
Superman Comes Out
Vitamin String Quartet
Cover: Balls, Balos, Digital Blasphemy
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Dust goes by

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #696: What really lasts forever? From our Dust in the Wind Department: Sears closes Illinois office. Lessons for the Church. Catholicos Karekin II meets with Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Books to be held: “Humanity During War” by Ezras Tellalian. The Tale of Two Babies – a metaphor for today and the grander-tomorrow. From our mixed shoes department: “They were Chris’, not mine.”
Tale of Two Babies
Everything Must Go (at Sears)
Catholicos meets with Pope
Pope’s visit to Armenia (2016) NS#490
Humanity During War
Fr. Vazken on Humanity During War
Chris Brown / In His Shoes
Kansas: Dust in the Wind
Put Your Hand in the Hand
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iACTivism in Armenia

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #695: Interview with iACT Founder and Chief of Vision Gabriel Stauring and iACT Executive Director Katie-Jay Stauring, about their work with refugees, displaced individuals, war, Genocide and an approach to healing. The War in Artsakh, one year later, thoughts for spiritual Q&A.
iACT news: Facebook page
iACT website: www.iact.ngo
“King of Glory” Q&A one year after the war 
iACT – Mindfulness and Soccer in Armenia 
Interview video: https://youtu.be/BKs47NLYopU
Greetings of Hope: Armenians to Darfuris
In His Shoes Mission
Arpi Alto
Arpi Alto Channel
Cover: iACT Soccer ball in rest on a field in Goris, Armenia, 2021
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Peprone

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #694: Discovering St. Peprone – a relatively unknown saint of the 3rd century, brings a message to the believer and to the world today. Fr. Vazken connects the dots twixt the saint, us and our lives today.
St. Peprone, saint of the Armenian Church
St. Febronia of Nsibus (OCA website)
Febronia icon
Sermon on Cross of Varak
Holy Cross of Varak
Datevik “Listen to My Heart”
Gagavik lyrics
Cover icon
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Apologies Abound

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #693: Apologetics is the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a branch of theology, by definition. Justifying what is beyond understanding and the challenge to communicate ideas, despite differences of opinions, is this next step. Expressions of His Holiness Karekin II to the Conference on Freedom and Peace in Holy Etchmiadzin.
Conference on Freedom and Peace in Etchmiadzin
HH Karekin II address to the Conference on Peace
Text of Address
Christian Apologetics
Tiger and the Donkey story
David Benoit Freedom at Midnight
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Post 911 & Tech

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #692: Dinah Washington sang “What a difference a day makes” … here we are 20 years times 365 of those days, a world touched by terror and by advances in technology. Implications for our lives, identity, and for our Faith. Kilobytes to Terabytes… California’s election process and the role of organized religion in delivering the product. What product?
911 Memorial
911 Memorial in lights
911 20 years later
California’s Recall Election
Armenian Christianity Today: Disasters
What a Wonderful Life
What a Difference a Day Makes
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Blessed Memory

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #691: The passing of Fr. Maghakia Amerian, of blessed memory, and the loss for the Church. Reflection on this young priest who tragically succumbed to COVID-19 and the legacy he leaves behind. Keeping hope alive when hope seems hopeless, when the bright star goes out. The Church, the numbers: a look at some of the sociological issues pressing against the Armenian Church, esp. in America.
Shoghakat TV eulogy of Fr. Maghakia
Fr. Maghakia: a personal reflection
A praying tribute
Fr. Maghakia sings Kilikia
WD168 this week
Labor Day Message
Cover: Window in Armenia 2009
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Oxi-Oxy

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #690: Oxymorons given to contemplation, reveal more than the meaning of a phrase or idea, but a look at incongruous and seemingly conflicting ideas. Take a stab and take some time, from the polecat perfumed to some basics in Christianity, a call beyond the child (I Cor 13)
Samples
“Now that’s Rich”
“Cheap Grace” Bonhoeffer
“Cost of Discipleship“, Bonhoeffer
Charlie Watts passing
Rolling Stones
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