Back Door to Genocide

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Next Step #644: “In the Shadows” is arriving at a higher consciousness about responsibility in the face of evil. Overcoming the evil and with the The Blood of the Sacrament and the martyrs: A short meditation in front of the altar. Insult by Kurt Vonnegut: “They’re Turks” and seven-fold-turks. The road from light to darkness, the evil that takes place in the darkness and returning to the light: thoughts on how we got here and where we go. Identifying the point-of-no-return.
Raffi “One Light, One Sun”
Adana “Zartir Lao”
Ghazanchechots (Shushi) Church bombed
Ghazanchechots shelled
Harry Hagopian on Hagia Sophia
War in Artsakh Sermon by Fr. Vazken
101 Hollywood Freeway Protest
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Deacon Hrayr at the Front Line in Artsakh
Blessed are you… are the light
WD168 for this week
Cover: Destruction at Ghazanchechots, 10/8/2020 newswire photo
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Zero to power of 10

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Next Step #643: War in Artsakh: News we hope would never happen but deep down knew it would. Azerbaijan: A case for systemic racism. Attack while the world is asleep: 1915 and today, taking advantage of the moment. What does it mean to have faith? To overcome evil with the good? The power of Miuron and the strength for the entire army. Questions for the Christian reconciling the peacemaker of the beatitudes. Juxtaposing the faith in Christ next to the reality of war. Identity and reconciliation: Double hypocrisy.
Cat Stevens Peace Train
All Armenia Fund – give safely and generously
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict explained
Artsakh conflict visually explained
Archbishop Barkev of Artsakh interviewed (Armenian)
WD168 this week
Prayer Service for the Army with Fr. Vazken’s Message
Jethro Tull: One White Duck/Zero to power of 10
John Lennon: Imagine 
Cover: Artsakh Cross; 2019 Susan Movsesian
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Belief Touched and Untouched

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Next Step #642: Eschatological parameters, manipulating the stories and testing religious myth against the backdrop of world events. A quick look at that reality through the last six decades and how the Good Samaritan got lost along with globalization while dialogues phased into monologues. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the prophet metaphor. Hatred and intolerance: Arsonists at the Armenian Center and self worth. XM Radio deciding what’s religious and what’s entertainment. A simple disclaimer: “I believe”
Mask, Pieces for Piano by Aret Madilian
Armenian Center: Arson and Hate Crime
Go Fund Me page for SF Armenian Center
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, remembrance
Demographics of the Supreme Court
Globalization and the Armenian Church
Nicene Creed
XM Satelite line-up
Cover: Stations, Fr. Vazken 2020
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Human Rights: Jesus and today’s response

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Next Step #641: Was Jesus concerned with human rights? Armodoxy for the day: Fr. Vazken challenges the listener to move from a future faith to a terrestrial one. A quick look at theologians – traditional and liberal, eastern and western and their missing voice today. The Kingdom of God is within and without you: The supernatural affecting our lives today. 2020, beyond the tragedies: A call to activism from Jesus’ mission.
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives
“Governors who Govern”
“Genocide & Human Rights” (1992)
Martin Luther King Jr, “A Testament of Hope” 
Hans Küng, “My Struggle for Freedom”
Dalai Lama, “The Art of Happiness”
“Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”
Glendale “Sundown” Resolution
Luke 4:14-21: Jesus shares his mission
“Preface to the Next Step” (2007)
Cover: “The Night Sam was born” Fr. Vazken 2002Engineered by Ken Nalik
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Gender Revealing Revelation

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Next Step #640: With the backdrop of the California wildfires and apocalyptic forecasts, Fr. Vazken gives a 2020 interpretation to the reality with a wake-up call to responsibility. Hear what the mysterious “Spyglass Lady” had to say to us today. A gender-revealing party ignites a fire and the questions that reveals so much more, including the seedless watermelon conundrum. The Feast of the Holy Cross: Finding the “Rays” of light and hope.
Zulal: Shogher Jan
Video: Beirut, You’re not alone
Middle East Council of Churches
Gender Reveal Party 
Exaltation of the Cross
Acts 2:22
Spyglass from Thoreau Museum
Cover: Blotting out the Sun, 2020 Fr. Vazken
Engineered by Ken Nalik
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Good-heart Bible

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Next Step #639: Does over analysis and applying reason to the Bible lead you away from Faith? It’s the starting question for this discussion, recognizing there are no wrong questions. Mark 4:35f and hardness of heart: doubt vs. experience. Reconciling absurdity with Faith: Learning and testing through vs computer programming. A different look at the rules that define us.
Tsitsernag by Arax
Waking Up in the Storm (Sermon) 8/30/2020
Buy a Bible: Catholic, Evangelical, Atheist
Labor Day message: Labor, Anxiety & Enthusiasm
Cover: Salmon eggs
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Plastic: Molding Faith

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Next Step #638: As the political atmosphere heats up with elections two months away, religion, particularly Christianity, comes into question as politicians justify actions and policy with a wide variety of departures on theology. Fr. Vazken offers a primer on politics and the use of religion, finding the grey matter between the black and white, conservative and liberal. Qualifying politicians by the Christian scale: the plasticity of the faith to conform to the world and an Armodoxy look.
Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin
Billy Graham’s granddaughter on Evangelicals today
WD168 this week
Armodoxy Blogspot
In His Shoes
Plastic Man Wiki
Cover: PM/No.1 Fr. Vazken 1966
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Protest Nearby

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Next Step #637: Attorneys Greg Kirakosian and Joseph Kazazian discuss civil rights, protest, Christian/human responsibility, vigilance and the call to justice. An important conversation that started in the face of injustice against Armenians and continues today on the streets and on the world stage.
Gor Mkhitarian Passport
Attorney Greg Kirakosian
Attorney Joseph Kazazian
Joseph Kazazian writer at the Armenian Weekly
Excessive Force against a priest
Mari Manoogian’s necklace and the “eh”
US Constitution Bill of Rights
Leveraging Love by Fr. Vazken
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Cover: Atop Cafesjian Museum, Yerevan 2014 Fr. Vazken
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Stiff Neck Bible Phenomena

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Next Step #636: Politics and politicians describe an economy which delivers money by which consumers can buy goods and services, including Bibles. The inter-connectivity of just about everything. Finding Truth beyond the facts and accounting for time and place of evolution, e.g. The aim of Gospel messages. After Christ’s temptations and the last one – a revisit of the film, story and controversy. Jesus, Widows and Orphans: Not playing by the rules. Beirut and the Grapeblessing service.
Refuse by the Zela Margossian Quintet
Songs for our Soldiers Concert – Sydney Australia ACYA
Donate to the Cause: E-transfer to Armenian Church Council of Aust. NSW BSB: 032 297 Account No: 323236
Last Temptation of Christ, Fr. Vazken 1988
GrapeBlessing in the Armenian Church (AC101)
Donate to Beirut securely
WD168 for Week of 8/13/2020
Cover – Wooden Gospel cover with Reflection, Fr. Vazken 2014 Madenataran, Yerevan, Armenia
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Old Film

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Next Step #635: 75 years after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, almost to the date, an explosion in Beirut leaves scores dead, thousands injured and a quarter-million homeless. Fr. Vazken shares and confesses that the difference between the two events is not much. The metaphor: using old film to take pictures today. Christianity beyond the convention, and the decline of social evolution. Camus warning: Nausea
Peace Corps Armenia by Nick Egibyan
Beirut Assistance – Give safely online
The Atomic Bomb at 75
Truman Announces Atomic Bomb Drop
WD168 – this Week: Beirut
USAF National Museum (near Dayton, OH)
Globalization and the Armenian Church
John Lewis Tribute CBS
Armenian Peace Corps
Message from Dan Hastings, Peace Corps volunteer
Cover: Old Film Sunflower with bee, Fr. Vazken 2020
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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