Hope: Solstice plus 1

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Next Step #498: Exploring the Winter Solstice and it’s opportunity to hope in an end to darkness and warmer days. The first message of Christmas comes alive with hope for today. A new day for a special understanding to our connection to all of eternity. Merry Christmas to all.
John Bilezikjian “Merry Christmas”
Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow by Ian Anderson
MLK Retreat: www.InHisShoes.org/MLK
Cover: Solstice Star & the Gyroscope by Fr. Vazken 2017
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Carols this Very Minute

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Next Step #497: The power of music to soothe and the power of a Christmas carol to transport to a place we should be. Taking a break from all the things that we are not doing at Christmas time: The annual pick of carols by Fr. Vazken for 2017. Enjoy some tunes and some expressions for change through the Babe in the Manger.
Songs: Bing Crosby & David Bowie “Drummer Boy”; Loreena McKennett “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”; Blackmore’s Night “I Saw Three Ships”; Bob Dylan “Must Be Santa”; Louis Armstrong “Winter Wonderland”; Chicago “O Come All Ye Faithful”; Mary Hopkin “Mary Had a Baby”; Joan Baez “What Child is This?”; Element Band “Hark the Herald Angels”; Jethro Tull “A Christmas Song”
Mystery Hum of the Earth
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Soft & Hard Resets

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Next Step #496: Time to purge, but is it time for a Factory reset? Fr. Vazken adds an electronic dot to the connection list. No technical experience necessary: this is about our lives and a time for the Church to hit the big Reset button. Defining the “Lazarus” Reset and the cloud as the great equalizer. Jerusalem beyond politics because it’s not “improving people’s lives.” GIGO and troubleshooting life. First Steps: The Sermon on the Mount.
The Wind by Cat Stevens
Soft vs Hard Reset
Fires in Los Angeles
Jerusalem as capital of Israel
Al Franken Resignation
Sermon on the Mount
MLK Retreat 2018: www.InHisShoes.org/mlk
Reclaim 2018: www.embracing-faith.com
Cover photo: Fr Vazken – “Reset Zeked” 2017
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Marketing Mystique: Retail to Spiritual

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Next Step #495: Cleaning up after Thanksgiving – assessing the movement from starving to feeding. Add a day to Black Friday and find the Rich Fool. Using the dimmer instead of the binary light switch.The Apple Mystique – form and function in our Armenian Church – an opportunity to mature in faith. Desensitized by the laugh track.
Pavane (Gabriel Fauré)- Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Interview with Harrison: KPFK Archive
Aldus Huxley, “Brave New World”
Bezos at Thanksgiving
Parable of the Rich Fool
Seattle University Chapel of St. Ignatius
Vahagn Setian 5 Walk/Run
John Lennon “Black Friday” quote
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The Direction of Thankfulness

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Next Step #494: Thanksgiving vs Thanksgetting in post-Trump America: When Christ looks at it one way and the Church in another way, with applause. Giving/losing ego for harmony, love and peace. Revelations at two anniversaries: St. John, SF and St. Andrew, Cupertino. Finding the unfiltered Jesus at and with the First-Called Disciple. A thanksgiving look at two parables –  the Rich Fool (Luke 12) and amassing wealth and a Grain of Wheat (John 12). Kosher bacon and McRibs – get your appetite ready for the holiday season. Ethics in a processed world and the “No Exceptions” rule.
Flamenco Duo Bularius
Thank you Very Much by the Scaffolds
Bible Study on Thanksgiving 2017
Kosher Bacon
St. John Armenian Church, San Francisco
St. Andrew Armenian Church, Cupertino
Trump pardons turkey
Cover: Fr. Vazken 2009
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Imponderable 1: Being the First

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Next Step #493: Imponderables and the Call of Christ especially as it pertained to the First Called disciple St. Andrew. Courage for the risk taker, a meditation for today. Spirituality without religiosity – what’s missing? The missed opportunity of the heavyweights. Emptiness and filling up. All this and more.
Jazz Iz Christ, Serj Tankian
Spiritual but not religious
St. Andrew icon
Imponderables
St. Andrew for the kids – FMWDH
Advent Bible Study begins
Cover Photo: St. Andrew at Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Artsakh, 2014 by Fr. Vazken Movsesian
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Sowing Creativity with Occam

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Next Step #492: Beginning with the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13), Fr. Vazken looks at the amazing phenomena of child prodigy Alma Deutscher, comparisons to Mozart, and applying Occam’s Razor across the lines of creativity, God and mystery. Also – on Church unity – Armenian and non.
Alma Deutscher on CBS’s 60 Minutes
Occam’s Razor
When Americans tried to unite the Church
Parable of the Sower
New Supernova
Einstein on Mystery
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Observing non-Celebrations

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Next Step #491: Tragedy in New York: Terror again, followed by a Halloween celebration just a few hours later. The World Series continued without missing a beat. His Holiness Karekin II in America: Inspiration and misunderstood freedoms by protesters. Martin Luther & the Reformation at 500: Reform and protest. Tribulations of the 60s and 70s in content and the catalyst for protest. Awkwardness of the diaspora and reconciling the ancient and modern worlds.
Antaram Dzaghig Isabel Bayrakdarian
His Holiness Karekin II Divine Liturgy – 10/29/17
1on1 with K2 – Youth Meeting with His Holiness
Shoghakat TV on His Holiness’ Pontifical Visit
500 year anniversary of Protestant Reformation
Atlantic
Christianity Today
Dr. Yvette Hovsepian Bearce in Germany
Blog
Video
Gene Scott
Parakeet speaks Armenian, so what?
Cover Photo: Celebrating & Observing over Yerevan by Fr. Vazken 2017
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Forty Years Here or There

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Next Step #490: The Spirit in freedom: Fr. Vazken reflects 40 years after a first impression and a first life. Marxism in action/Freedom with human nature: some observations. Institutions and rebellion: Coming out of the 60’s and 70’s. Karekin Nzhdeh inspiring MLK and sounding the Nathan Hale mantra? Martin Luther and Protestantism at 500.
Sayat Nova “Amen Sazi”
500 Years after Martin Luther (Daily Beast)
500 Years after the Reformation (Christianity Today)
Karekin Nzhdeh Biographical Sketch
Starkey Hearing Foundation
Cover Picture: Karekin Nzhdeh statue in Yerevan 2017
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Two Peaks Make a Mountain

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Next Step #489: Broadcasting from Yerevan Armenia – Finding the balance in our life between the large and small challenges that face us. Patience and courage come together, giving us the tools to meet the challenges of our day. Working with the Starkey Hearing Foundation “So Armenia may Hear.”  The ongoing mission: Luke 4:17 and the Spirit of the Lord working in this world. #Armenia40
“Khorhoort Khorin” a Capella by Fr. Arshag Khatachadourian (1982)
Luke 4:16-21
Twin Peaks, A Metaphor for Today
Starkey Hearing Foundation
Fr. Vazken on the Starkey Mission
Starkey in Armenia
Reinhold Nieburh’s “Serenity Prayer”
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