Unmasking Halloween

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Next Step #595: What’s under the mask? Strip search and the necessity to cry while peeling an onion and the layers that mask our selves and our lives. What we lost as the US Congress recognized the Genocide. Beyond mourning: applying tragedy to the betterment of our life. The “3 Year Contract”: Another element in the Armodoxy equation. Justifying ideas as Christian even though they are out of sync with reality – 2000 years ago and today. Cafeteria Christianity and making it work for you: Nothing new here. “Center of Attention” debuts this weekend! Harry Houdini “darelitz”, zombies, standard time and much more, all in this edition of the Next Step.
Dun Ringil by Jethro Tull
Commemorate a Genocide by focusing today
Adam Schiff on Genocide Resolution
Fr. Manoog Markarian on Halloween (Armenian)
Fr. Vazken on Halloween (English)
Fr. Vazken on Fear and Halloween (1995)
God, Lemmy & The Walking Dead: The Gospel According To Ian Anderson
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Realigned to the Road Ahead

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Next Step #594: The Genocide is not a bargain chip nor a punishment: Rejecting a political solution for sacred remembrance. A look and re-look at a true mission for ourselves and our collective energy, as prescribed by Christ himself. “For this I was ordained…” (Luke 4) and its meaning today. Finding the poor, the brokenhearted, captives, blind and oppressed – in the here and now – not too far from home. A special Fr. Vazken annual review and one of the essentials for the In His Shoes and Armodoxy understanding!
Dizzy Gillespie – Odyssey
Salt Peanuts
Essentially Anush – Line drawings
Tweeting from Fr. Krikor’s Ordination
Luke 4
Western Diocese website http://www.wdacna.com/
Cover: Road in Jermuk, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Between the Rocks: Peace Today

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Next Step #593: Syria attacked by Turkey. Fr Vazken gives the IHS response – overcoming evil and our obligation to peace, as Christians and Armenians who have been on the receiving end of the Turkish sword. Includes a prayer for peace. Connecting dots from the weekend: Holy Translators, the widow’s offering and our voice for peace.
Junior Choir of St Sahag & St. Mesrob Armenian Church
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam, A time to break silence”
Next Step #8a – 08/08/08
In His Shoes Mission
Cover: Jermuk hike, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Presumption of Coincidence

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Next Step #592: From Nebraska to Sasnashen the path and trail of a blessing. Optimism vs leadership: Vazken I and clergy greats of the 20th century. Noah, Hayk and his granddaughter. McCarthyism and the Presumption of Innocence. Opportunity missed: Aurora, prejudice, blessing vs coincidence.
Ginger Baker “I Lu Kron”
Sasnashen Update
Conference on 20th Century Clergy
Fr. Zaven Arzoumian on Vazken I (book download)
Ginger Baker drumming video
Miss Nebraska Lex Najarian
Cover: Armenian Lady Bug Found, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Good Fish

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Next Step #591: Returning from Armenia, the opening of the Sasnashen Youth Center, visits to the sacred and the meaning behind them. Forgiveness in action – hugging the perpetrators of the crime. A new and healthier definition for fanaticism connected to the love of God. Reading English in Armenian (like transliteration…) and a case for foreign obsessions. Why the monasteries? the language? the 36 letters? and an Armodox answer.
Nazeli by Haig Yazedjian
Hugging the Murderer
Sasnashen Article 1
Sasnashen Article 2
Cover: Coke & Beer, Dilijan 2019, Fr. Vazken
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Revisit Interstellar Peace

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Next Step #590: Revisiting Interstellar Jesus from Episode #335 in 2014.  Rising with Orwell beyond “stale language,” Fr. Vazken uses the metaphors of the “superweird” regarding black holes to challenge a new vocabulary for love, forgiveness and peace.
Wired Magazine/ Interstellar Black Hole
Interstellar Movie
George Orwell “ Politics & the English Language “
Cover: MS Bing Daily photos
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Listening to Unprocessed Thoughts

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Next Step #589: Revisiting “Unprocessed Thoughts” from Episode #331 in 2014. A flow of ideas from Yerevan, Armenia. In a whirlwind trip to Armenia, Fr. Vazken comes with some candid thoughts on the road to development. #Lunareclipse #Sacredspace #ThePearl #MerHooys #ArmenianChurch #InHisShoes
Song by Looys
TUMO Center for Creative Technologies
I found the pearl
Mer Hooys –  House of Hope
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Hysteria and Exaltation

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Next Step #588: Hysteria takes many forms. From the Beatles (Beatlemania) to expressions today in the self-professed prophets of Christianity, the excitement focuses on the messenger rather than the message. Dangers of Bible study without structure. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – a major feast with a major message to connect the dots twixt hysteria and meaning. Fr. Vazken makes his selections from the Christian cafeteria with no apologies but with menu recommendations. Statistics – their use and misuse: Why do 4 out of 5 dentists prefer Crest? The birth of the Bible: Surprise!
“A Better Moon” by Ian Anderson
Etchmiadzin Renovation – Fr. Vazken’s Video (AC202 #5)
Hysteria
Ron Howard’s Beatles’ Eight Days A Week
Bible in the Armenian Church
Armenian Christianity Today (Episode #1 – the basics)
Margaret Atwood – Handmaid’s Tale was a warning (Time)
“A Better Moon” by Ian Anderson
Cover: Mass Hysteria – Bataclan, Paris (Flickr @tedbassman) 2010
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Celebrating the Drummer

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Next Step #587: Celebrating the individuals who walk to the beat of Thoreau’s drummer. Not waiting until death to appreciate the beauty people offer our world. Packaging religion and hatred: more than a word of caution, a challenge to reject. Tolerance and understanding today. Bizarre revelation: Trumpeter or con? Creative astrology. Have we forgotten to evolve? God’s foundation in us and not the program.
Adiss in Yerevan
Memory of Setrak
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Adiss Harmandian
Adiss will not die by Lucy Deukmedjian
Sasnashen project
Cover: Stilt-walking, San Mateo Park, Fr. Vazken 2019
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Children & God

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Next Step #586: Do children need God? Keeping God close and in focus; Finding God not so much without as much as within, especially in the heart. Jesus’ invitation to accept the Kingdom as children; so who’s leading who? Fr. Vazken is challenged and shares some insights on making God real, front and center in the lives of our children. A model for Sunday School built into the Divine Liturgy of the Ancient Orthodox Church.
Focused Vision
St. Nectarios
Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Church
Cover: Building block of God, Fr. Vazken 2019
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