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Lenten Consumption

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Next Step #456: Lenten exercise to look beyond the abstinence models and engage the spiritual. Ashes to ashes is just as valid as dust to dust: So too with cremation. Thoughts on the Cremation/Burial debate. Why do the faithful have such a will to believe in something? asks the poet and we take the challenge. It’s a Lenten Delight. The Moon/Earth Paradox and Metaphor for defining evil explained. Beyond the dates and the numbers – a look at the message underlying our faith. Prelude to the Reclaim Conference, coming up.
Gor Mkhitarian “How do we live?”
Viral Video Jan6/Dec25
St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument
Back Door Angel Lyrics
Beginning of Lent Instruction
RECLAIM conference: www.Embracing-Faith.com
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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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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
RECLAIM: Embracing Faith in a Changing World www.embracing-faith.com
Armenian Church 101: www.youtube.com/Armodoxy
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Hope from the Badlands

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Next Step #434: A conversation with Fr. Stepanos Doudoukjian about his upcoming Springsteen Retreat and using the artist’s music to deliver a message of faith, hope and love. Also – Finding the Silence in the presence of God at the St. Ignatius Chapel. Here’s a “grave turner” – wait ’til you hear what they’re trying to pass-off as the Mission of the Church!
Song: “To Zabelle” by Gor Mkhitarian
Fr. Stepanos delivers Springsteen style sermon
St. Peter Armenian Church, Watervliet, NY
Springsteen Retreat
Chapel of St. Ignatius – University of Washington
I have found the Pearl
AC101 Videos: www.youtube.com/armodoxy
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A Few Hundred Years of Pokeman

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Next Step #423: With the release of the Pokemon Go, Fr. Vazken discovers the business plan for the app in the Church archives, from a few hundred years ago! Connecting more dots on relevancy for faith, in the lessons from Dallas and the police shootings. Missing the boat on AC101 and the Der Ghazarian miniatures, all in this edition.
Song: Hermine Toomanian
Dallas Shooting Memorial
AC101 on Vardavar
Pokemon Go
Miniatures by E. Der Ghazarian
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Logical Proof

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Next Step #408: What the early Apostolic Church tells us about the Resurrection. Post Resurrection and post Easter ties: Looking beyond faith to logic to explain the illogical. A miracle happens when an autistic boy jumps from his seat in the church. A quick trip to SF and Ken’s back from Cuba – getting prepared to drive the long distance.
Song: Goyva Yerousaghem – Hachig Kazarian Ensemble ; Susanna Sargsyan – Amen Hayr Sourb
Vazkenian Students
Miracle Moment: Autistic boy jumps up
Cuba & Cars
Photo – “Proof” by Fr. Vazken Movsesian
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The Sound of One Hand

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Next Step #404: The Zen koan as the backdrop for this Lenten meditation. Finding the Kingdom within and without as a Jesus-instructed First step. Armodoxy: Understanding faith as a means of living today, alleviating anxiety about future promises. The Multiverse: A universe with different rules.
Prayer in Passing by Anouska Shankar
The Sound of One Hand
AC101 – www.Youtube.com/Armodoxy
St. Peter Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StPeterArmenianChurch/
Parable of the Judge
koan
Desi Arnaz
Accidental Universe
Cover Photo: Salvation at Sevan (2009) by Fr. Vazken
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Abandoning the Cloud

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Next Step #391: Cloud storage and cloudy religion. Bringing the faith down to Earth where it was intended to be in a quest for peace. Fr. Vazken shares thoughts on infinity and immortality, dissected from terabytes to kilobytes to the soul that makes up the human animal. San Bernardino shooting, the Pope on fundamentalism, the Funeral Service of the Armenian Church, A reading of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Duckling”; gods from Mt. Olympus to Christianity.
Cover Photo: “Aragil on the West Side” by Fr. Vazken
Song: Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D minor.
Pope on Fundamentalism
San Bernardino shooting
LA Times on Prayer after Shootings
Data Measurements
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Duckling”
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Preservatives Added or Not

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Next Step #388: Keep the faith! Not to be confused with preserve the faith! Fruits, meats, vegetables, even photos are ways of preserving – even pickling – the dead. Fr. Vazken gives food for thought as we build monuments and museums to preserve and miss the opportunity to live. Also, in this episode – The power of the Eucharist, and the Delivery System of the Church.
“Armenian Patterns” by Karen Markaryan
Pope on the Eucharist
LA Times “Matagh” article
Armenian National Anthem
Leveraging Love
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Pluto & the Thomas Connection

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Next Step #371: Lessons learned from the Pluto fly-by, in case you didn’t catch it from Thomas. Understanding faith as Venus & Jupiter dance in the sky. Jimmy Carter on leaving his church on principles of equality for women as Fr. McKenzie wipes the dirt from Eleanor’s grave, who was saved? More on the “His Holiness Project” and the revolution from within and without.
Song: Element Band “Too Mi Arev” from Oo
Jimmy Carter Essay “Losing my religion for equality”
Essay Review
Pluto the Dog can be seen on Pluto the Planet
Millennium Peace Summit: http://www.millenniumpeacesummit.org/
Dancing Boris: www.jethrotull.com
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