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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Name & Legacy

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Next Step #585: The legacy of Catholicos Vazken I – what do we take away from him 25 years after his death. His name, a special calling and expression of the Holy Spirit. One Vazken to the next in this edition. An angel named Alyssa visits and makes a 25 year old connection.
Alone Again Or by Love
25th Anniversary Video Tribute
Vazken I – Addresses & Messages PDF
Photo Gallery of 25th Anniversary Event
Vazken on Vazken: Personal Reflections
Cover: Catholicos’ tomb close up
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Assumption 2019

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Next Step #584: Assumption Feast, Woodstock at 50 and the passing of the Venerable Catholicos Vazken I, 25 years later – connecting these dots. Epidemic of shootings, fear in the air and when religion should stay quiet rather than syncing life with ancient stories. (Termites on the arc?) St. Paul to the Thessalonians 4, and hearing it today in Fowler at the passing for Fr. Yeghia Hairabedian. Inheriting vs borrowing – a way of looking at Christian responsibility in a life that matters.
The Weight – Woodstock Album
The Last Waltz by the Band
Encountering Anew: Vazken I
Blessing of Grapes
Explained! Assumption & Grapeblessing
Rev. Fr. Yeghia Archpriest Hairabedian
Pontificate of Catholicos Vazken by Rev. Dr. Zaven Arzoumanian
Woodstock at 50
I Thessalonians 4 
Road Runner & violence
Cover: Rinjani Volcano – Bing cover
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C^2 at the Transfiguration

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Next Step #582: From E=mc^2 to the Divine Liturgy – the Peace of Christ being beyond understanding and words, is matched up against the constant speed of light in a manner only Fr. Vazken can. Here’s a connection of dots – a religious unified field theory – that brings it together; the scriptures of Transfiguration and astrophysics, lending to the discussion of mass/energy equivalence and why did you become a priest, Fr. V? More so, the gross and vulgar expressions of Vartavar in the light of the Light: grab a ticket to Magic Mountain. Laugh tracks and canned laughter – being told what’s funny, what’s not and what’s acceptable (a loaded word but only if from the church!)
“About the Light” Gor Mkhitarian from the Spirit Album
Unified Field Theory
Mass Energy Equivolence
Sasnashen Youth Center
Transfiguration Narrative
NPR on Laugh Tracks (Study Confirms)
Neil Degrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Stephen Colbert
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Closed Box Church

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Next Step #581: Back from Armenia and specifically a visit to the village of Sasnashen, site of the US Air Force C-130 Shoot Down, Fr. Vazken debriefs with the listeners in this episode. A preliminary look at the Sasnashen Youth Center Project. Closed boxed churches to keep God away from us: The need for relevance here, there and everywhere. Financial responsibility in the church: PETA would be proud of this model! Living legends continue to inspire with music – McCartney and Anderson. Touching Armenia via the spirit: Saluting the unsung heroes. And much more.
Get Back by the Beatles
Liyah Babayan – Refugee Interview (NPR)
Sasnashen Story (July 2019)
Transfiguration – Fr. Vazken’s Message
For Michael Collins, Andrew and Dad
ANCA – Middle East Christians
Scrambled Eggs (pre-Yesterday)
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Review time

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Next Step #580: From Sasnashen Armenia, here is a review of the events leading to the In His Shoes project and Fr. Vazken’s visit to the village and area of Talin. More on exorcism – connecting dots to the spirits that move us – demonic possession, et al. Explained: The opposite of the God-job? Replay of Next Step #543 (2018) and Next Step #70 (2009) … including an Ani Bubbles!
En Dizan – Luys Vocal Quintet
Next Step #70
Next Step #543
Cover Photo: Khatchkars at Talin
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Moon Beams at 50

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Next Step #579: 50 years after the first steps on the moon are celebrated but not without connecting dots between the service of exorcism, demonic possession and lunacy. Jesus and the language of parables. Beyond words, scripture comes alive and finds emotional (read new) meaning as the crew of Apollo 8 pronounce a Christmas Eve message to a receptive planet. Happy forgiveness day 7×77. Rock & roll, as the earthquake hits us during the Tull concert.
Jethro Tull: Michael Collins, Jeffry and Me
George Noory Coast to Coast
Apollo 8 Christmas Message
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Familiarity & Contempt: Faith & Freedom

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Next Step #578: An independence day look at contempt, apathy and neglect brought on by familiarity. Whether freedom or faith, a simple look at Nazareth 30AD gives a clear look at the dangers we face. Some from 1984 (Orwell) and some from journalist-want-to-bees, Fr. Vazken connects the dots and presents ways to avoid the traps of blessings lost. Luke 4: Moving from Jesus of Nazareth to Jesus the Christ. And then the earthquake hit! (min 19:30) giving yet one more metaphor!
America the Beautiful, Ray Charles
Ministry of Truth: Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
Declaration of Independence
Pilgrimage to Armenia
Frederick Douglass on What to the slave is the Fourth of July?
Fantasy on the Fifth at Fifty
Earthquake (min 19:30)
7×77 www.7×77.org
Իշամեղու =Bumblebee
Free Speech? Really (blog)
Cover: Statue of Juana Maria and child in Santa Barbara, California, at the intersection of State Street & Victoria Street
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Etchmiadzin the Building

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Next Step #577: Beyond the story and history of Holy Etchmiadzin, there is a tangible structure as the headquarters of the Armenian Church and the birthplace of Light for the Armenian people. An unusual podcast where “two or three” are not discounted, but where brick and mortar find some renewal. And we are there!
Catholicos HH Karekin II’s Encyclical regarding Etchmiadzin 2019
Hripsime & Gayane: the Etchmiadzin Story
Holy Etchmiadzin Celebrated at St. Leon Cathedral
Notre Dame Cross after the fire
A Pattern Language
Book of Useless Information
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