The Next Step – Page 13

Thought Process

Next Step #686: A thought process that takes you from the reality of war to an answer found in the song of a people. Leaving the neighborhood: Christianity on the border. With Azeri aggression front and center, and a silent world community, Fr. Vazken leads the listener through this short journey, not down a rabbit hole, but to an end with identity nourished along the way. Defining identity through memory. Finding hope
Azeri latest attack
North & South Korea restore hotlines
Olympic Videos
Fiji Rugby Team Singing after winning gold
In His Shoes Mission
Hope for Haiti Now
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Next Step #685: Testing God: from a dialogue with the Pharisees to walking maskless, we try our best to stump Him. Matrimonial scriptures: another look at Matthew 19. Words matter: when the wrong words are used to baptize this priest, it affects every other sacrament administered to him and to those to whom he ministers.
Pope Francis restrictions on Latin Mass. Wine and forgiveness.
Invalid words for baptism invalidates priest
Our Weekly Bread – interview with Fr. Vazken
Highland Revolution – Gregjam
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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #684: “Out of the mouths of babes” comes a question with a profound answer: Life after death for the Christian. Remember Yellow Pages? Claimed as the “original search engine” is also the original pay-to-create news service: Deciphering through some of the religious “competition.” Apostolic vs. Gregorian.
Are all “Brands” the Same?
Nicene Creed
Phonebook visual
iAct
Peter Gabriel on Djivan Gasparyan
The Passion of the Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ movie
Djivan Gasparyan on Armeniapedia
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Next Step #683: Extreme Unction, a sacrament of the Armenian Church, is perhaps one of the seven that is most misunderstood. And why have some reduced the list to six? Fr. Vazken starts the discussion on the secular plane, with current political trends and the place of faith in evaluating your belief system, and takes the conversation to end-of-life reflections. Don’t check-in your brain at the door for this one; uncomfortable for some, it’s an important discussion in Armodoxy.
Prayer for “good death”
Houdini exposing fraud – contacting the dead
Transfiguration/Armodoxy
Transfiguration Sermon (2020)
Transfiguration blog post
Djivan Gasparian passes away
Mama – Djivan Gasparian
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Next Step #682: Finding a shirt inside the dalmatic: simple steps toward relevance. Altering the altar area: how we went from dinner table to ornate altar and now searching for simplicity. Advice to a younger self: The Buddha on the road. The priesthood: Caring and loving from cradle to grave. Challenged to share advice with a younger self.
If you meet the Buddha on the Road
Diving Liturgy and Thanksgiving – AC101 Video
Declaration of Independence
Fr. Vazken’s Sermon – Church & State – 27 June 2021
Time Travel Grandfather Paradox
Dalmatic
Ray Charles, America
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Cover: Dalmaticx with Annunciation to Magi 1593, public domain
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Next Step #681: The virtual church, the virtual nation and virtual Armenia existed long before the pandemic forced virtual realities to interact. Looking beyond the politics of the latest election. Caution against throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The “awe” of religion, expressed in numbers and math. The billion-hour phenomena of YouTube. From “Evil Empire” to “Velvet Revolution”.
AP Election News
WD168 this week
Gorbachev US trip cut short
Bishop Sebu: Baptism in a Shack
Encountering Anew: Vazken I
Vazken I visit to America: Anna Movsesian memoires
First Armenian Bulletin Board System
YouTube at 1 billion
Element Band
Cover: NetZero Stained Glass
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Next Step #680: Beginning our 14th Year of broadcasting the Next Step. Sorting the files, reflecting and reminiscing – from the early days in an old Victorian in Hollywood. Elections in Armenia. Peace with bullies in the neighborhood: Leveraging Love. Challenging William Saroyan: New Mexico and the problem of finding peace in a most obvious place.
45 Days: Fight for a Nation
Archimedes’ Lever
WD168 this week
Sermon on Purpose (6/13/21)
Leveraging Love
Crystal Diode Radio – no batteries necessary
Ruminant
Listen to the Mockingbird
Cover: Victorian in Hollywood, 1989 Fr. Vazken
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Next Step #679: Finding authority in a post-God world. Defining boundaries and parameters for defining Christ, Christianity and real magic. A look at life after cancer, plus 10: Crutches, friendship and family. A humbling look at the ego. Wrapping up 13 years of podcasting: the virtual church.
Forty Days to Healing by Fr. Vazken
60 Minutes: UFOs regular sighting by military
WD168 this week
Parik Nazarian Cycle of Life and on Cycle of Life on Amazon
Cover: Sunset over Redwood Shores, Fr. Vazken 2021
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Next Step #678: What needs to change to bring about peace? Moving from the personal – habits – to the global – peace/harmony: the first steps of bringing about change. The myth of politics: why it fails. Bully to bully: Motives aren’t all focused on change nor maintaining the status quo.
Jesus on Priorities
Dalai Lama, Book of Inner Peace
Andrew Weil, MD, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Israeli Journalist regarding Peace
WD168 this week
Tracy Chapman
Cover: Joshua Tree, 2021 Fr. Vazken
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Next Step #677: The dots get connected between the Christ’s Cross and the “Lynching Trees.” James Cone and Black Liberation Theology, works that resonate with and for us. Understanding as afforded us by walking in the shoes of others. Thoughts from the MLK walk for peace in Glendale and how Armenians have lost the map to two-way streets. Humanity found: No superiority rhetoric.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
“More than a Greeting” by Fr. Vazken
George Floyd: After Asphyxiation by Fr. Vazken
WD168 This Week
MLK Walk pictures
“Strange Fruit”
Greetings of Hope to Darfur
Governor Newsom on the shooting in San Jose
New Era for Glendale Armenians
Bob Dylan at 80 https://www.rollingstone.com/bob-dylan-archive-songs-discography-album-reviews-interviews/
Cover: “Guitar scarf”
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