Raw Footage

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Next Step #453: Shattered coffee pots and spooky messages, are they part of ESP phenomena or just bad timing? Extra Sense or Ordinary Sense: Where does love fit in? Connections in Classrooms: Math, English and Chemistry make great metaphors. Zen koan meets Western philosophy. Connections through Armodoxy. Addressing the elephant in the room in the battle against cancer. More on the Reclaim Conference. Personal incidents and reflections leave us Raw.
“Where do the children play?” by Cat Stevens
Next Step #452 – http://inhisshoes.org/coffee-after-midnight/
Cancer Walk Sponsorship
RECLAIM conference: www.Embracing-Faith.com
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Coffee after midnight

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Next Step #452: When a priest goes overboard and needs to be shut down… Censorship and what are you trying to achieve with Facebook? Groundhog Edition, Presentation/Purification Day. Reflections on a personal loss: Laura – bookmarking for the future. Issues of Free Speech,  Strategies for today: Social media & Capitalism; The Bible-standard & The Jesus Model; Investments in the Self and Eternity & the Budweiser Models. Trump and immigration stats. “A night with a bear.” Superbowl, armchair quarterbacking and the Church.
At Last, Forever by Jethro Tull  www.jethrotull.com
Tina Turner
Groundhog Day 2017
Groundhog Day Movie
1984 by George Orwell, again
Presentation of Christ (Purification)
Fareed Zakaria this week
Cancer Walk Sponsorship
RECLAIM conference: www.Embracing-Faith.com
Photo: “Morning Perk Will Not be the Same” Fr. Vazken (2017)
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Lights on in the TZ

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Next Step #451: The Chalcedon and Fahrenheit edition. The “business” of the Church. The three Ecumenical Councils of the Universal Christian Church. AMen to Armenian men Arizona style. Negative diseases: Sifting through the pessimism of Trump’s Inagural Address and the follow up protests. Bizarre moments of jumping state lines. The Optimism that is fueled by pessimism. Distractions, coverings and missing the message of Life: The burden of attention. Focusing and actualizing truth and embracing the good – some practical answers. Man & Money: Treasure & Heart – the money factor in the Church equation. Expansion of Epostle ministry.
Louis Armstrong: That Lucky Old Sun Rolling Around Heaven All Day
Ecumenical Councils
St. Apkar Armenian Church, Scottsdale
Excuses (in Armenian)
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Head Coverings that Fly with the Wind

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Next Step #450: Inauguration Eve – a transition and President Obama’s Appreciation. The dilemma of Talibanesque policing in the Armenian Church: from head-coverings, toilet tissue and reaching out to the least of our brothers.  Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend roundup of thoughts and adventures.
“Aysor Tzaynun Hayragan” Vem Radio
President Obama’s Thank You Letter
Reclaim Conference: www.Embracing-faith.com
Stupidity
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Singularity In and Out

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Next Step #449: Singularity of events from the Big Bang to the Baptism of Christ to the MLK weekend ahead. The power of Love as the “ONLY” transforming power: What are the restrictions and what are the chances for change? Greasing the roads with Dr. King and St. John the Baptist. Sermon on Theophany in Thousand Oaks.
Joni Mitchell, “Love”
MLK on Love
GALAS: http://www.galasla.org/
Theophany Sermon, Thousand Oaks
RECLAIM: Embracing Our Faith in a Changing World www.Embracing-Faith.com
Photo: Sunset over Van, Fr. Vazken 2014
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Extra Towns on the Map

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Next Step #448: Theophany Eve edition. Syncing with God’s Cosmic calendar. Looking inside the manger to become an image in an icon and delivering better gifts than frankincense, gold and myrrh. Armodoxy’s stand for the New Year and Fr. Vazken’s Christmas message. Water Blessing at Theophany – what happens when a Mayor gives her obligatory message and takes Christ out? Expected from a mayor but from a church? The possibility of Christianity without Christ – not a slow process.
Looys i Luso – Lusine Zakaryan
Truth Bomb Mom
Reclaim: Embracing Faith
AC101 – December 25 or January 6
Waterblessing at Adventist Hospital
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Sign of the Times

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Next Step #447: AC101 – Stupidity inside the Facebook-rabbit hole. Would you trust your brakes to the guy outside the library? (AC101 Revisited) St. Stephen Feast and a sermon by Dn. Varoujan. MSNBC Rachel Maddow – the capitalist dilemma of news preparation.  Assassination of one person vs. children of war:  Life’s inequality. Eye of God and the Centrality of Jesus. Passing’s: Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds.
Auld Lang Syne by Bambir
AC101 – Armenian Christmas
MSNBC Rachel Maddow
St. Stephen Sermon
Photo at Ascension Catholic Church by Fr Vazken
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A Rock Standing Rock: Merry Christmas

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Next Step #446: Fr. Vazken’s 2016 Christmas Message. Finding the underlying spirit in Christmas and in life. An army of robots doing good work doesn’t get the work done. The “God force” that pushes us to do. Standing Rock: the story of an Armenian who stands at the Standing Rock. Connecting to the Divine and the Eternal. Fr. Vazken’s 2016 Christmas message, “Even if all the stories of shepherds and wise men were fabricated…”  The moment of singularity: the God force that is born in each of us to bring Peace and Harmony. The Winter Solstice is today! Ring out those bells! The Birth of the Sun.
Solstice Bells & Pass the Bottle
Armenian at Standing Rock
New Yorker/Standing Rock
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John 1
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Answers in Styrofoam

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Next Step #445: Christmas Celebration conundrum is found a world plagued with war and disease. A small Styrofoam cup appears holding some answers. From the mouths of babes and the treasures of children, an answer that sparkles in the Christmas sky.
Blackmore’s Night “Winter Carols”
St. Lucia
Family Promise of the Verdugos
Syrian Refugee Assistance/World Vision
Pentatonix Christmas
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Soloing or Together: Branches

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Next Step #444: After Castro and before Christ: “A revolution is a fight to death between the future and the past” – a look beyond the Old Testament ties. “Gifts for Jesus” – new found list in the Gospels.  Experience in Portland, OR: Singing it alone/Celebrating together. Fasting myths explained. Part 2 of the “Advent Gospels” (Luke 14:12-24; Luke 17: 1-10; Luke 18:9-14) Discovering a set of Gospel readings that bridge the road to Christmas.
“I Believe in Father Christmas” by Greg Lake
Fasting Myth
Pope Francis on Environment
Fidel Castro
Advent Season Opener
Youth Rally & Christian Conference: www.Embracing-faith.com; Subscribe for updates!
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