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Tsundoku

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #724: Books you can’t read, words that don’t exist and stories you can’t tell, all in this post-Easter, pre-GenComm episode. We’ll spell out the answer: Archimedes and Leveraging Love. Also: Missing pages from the William Saroyan play-book.
Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago
Coachella Festival
Tsundoku
Prison Library Project
Leveraging Love
Archimedes and Levers
Folk Dances of Abaran
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Twenty Too?

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Next Step #708: At the threshold of the new year, an assessment according to the Creed of the Church. Cremation issues – burn or not to burn? Desmond Tutu passes away. Playing Jeopardy. Zvartnots explained. A primer on 3 to 1 love. “Butterfly” wish for the New Year: Twenty won too.
Nicene Creed
Jeopardy (Minute 14) “Creed”
Desmond Tutu and forgiveness
Naregatsi Orchestra – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with Armenian folk instruments
Two Short Planks
Cover: Two Short Planks, Fr. Vazken, 2021
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Dalmatic Ease

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Next Step #682: Finding a shirt inside the dalmatic: simple steps toward relevance. Altering the altar area: how we went from dinner table to ornate altar and now searching for simplicity. Advice to a younger self: The Buddha on the road. The priesthood: Caring and loving from cradle to grave. Challenged to share advice with a younger self.
If you meet the Buddha on the Road
Diving Liturgy and Thanksgiving – AC101 Video
Declaration of Independence
Fr. Vazken’s Sermon – Church & State – 27 June 2021
Time Travel Grandfather Paradox
Dalmatic
Ray Charles, America
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Cover: Dalmaticx with Annunciation to Magi 1593, public domain
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Starting 14 Challenged

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Next Step #680: Beginning our 14th Year of broadcasting the Next Step. Sorting the files, reflecting and reminiscing – from the early days in an old Victorian in Hollywood. Elections in Armenia. Peace with bullies in the neighborhood: Leveraging Love. Challenging William Saroyan: New Mexico and the problem of finding peace in a most obvious place.
45 Days: Fight for a Nation
Archimedes’ Lever
WD168 this week
Sermon on Purpose (6/13/21)
Leveraging Love
Crystal Diode Radio – no batteries necessary
Ruminant
Listen to the Mockingbird
Cover: Victorian in Hollywood, 1989 Fr. Vazken
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And now an Example

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Next Step #634: Remembering Congressman John Lewis, disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. and a disciple of Jesus Christ. Non-violent resistance and the lever of love. Invoking St. James’ challenge: Obama eulogizes Lewis. Dealing with difficult people, communities and countries, Armodoxy and In His Shoes.
Toxicity Medieval Style – Algal the Bard
John Lewis Funeral
President Obama’s Eulogy
Leveraging Love
Cover: Lewis lays in state
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Extreme, Fanatic and the Good

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Next Step #606: “Prayers for the President” opens a discussion about fanaticism. The Old Testament and the most severe curses of the Bible: Jesus’ radical approach. Fanaticism – fear and warnings about literalism. Martin Luther King Jr. an “extremest for love” in the footsteps of Jesus.
Epiphany by The Piano Guys
Dr. King interview by Alex Haley in Playboy (1965)
Psalm 109
Kellyanne Conway’s Husband / Trump & Evangelicals
MLK Nobel Peace Prize Speech
MLK and Armodoxy; Armenian Christianity Today #38
Next Step #31 – MLK & John the Baptist
Cover: Arizona Solitude 2012 Fr. Vazken
Engineered by Ken Nalik
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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
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Principal Principles

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Next Step #568: Sri Lanka Easter massacre and the concept of a “holy and mighty” God. Reflections on a principal with principles: Gabriel Injejikian (1930-2019). Einstein’s theory of insanity explained in scientific terms. April 24 explained in terms of physics, Easter explained by experience. A special post-Easter; post Genocide-commemoration edition of the Next Step. Leveraging Love 10 years later, still hopeful. Christ has risen from the dead!
Living in an Orthodox World
Leveraging Love (Vimeo)
Leveraging Love (YouTube)
Gabriel Injejikian obituary
LA Supervisors – Genocide Recognition
Erdogan’s Thugs video
Erdogan’s Thugs to justice?
Stand Against Racism
Cover: Easter 2019 with Utah flowers by Fr. Vazken
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Sharing Forgiveness

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Next Step #561: Getting to know someone beyond meeting personally – a reflection of love is the key. Sharing: Is there a word? What does that say about us? Pope Francis on Love. Elements of Lent: Charity, Prayer and Fasting – a challenge to do the hardest of these (and hint: it’s not the one you’re thinking.)
Hovhaness Badalyan: Karekin Njteh
Lenten Journey by Fr. Vazken
Pope Francis on Forgiveness and the Family
Dn. Hrayr Nalbandian’s Passing
Cover: Exchange/Split, Fr. Vazken 2014
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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Love 7-4-3-1

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Next Step #546: On the types of love and bringing it home with an Armenian expression that includes God. Sweet Wine: John 2. The relevancy of prayer in our lives and its absence in our lives; MIA: Armenian Telethon. Briefly on the Toronto issues. Fires in California. Beatles “White” at 50. Mystery beyond the baffling … universe and self.
Gor Mkhitarian
SOAR: http://soar-us.org
PS-7 types of Love
Thanksgiving and the Divine Liturgy
John 2
God Friended Me (CBS)
Armenian Diocese of Canada on Toronto reality
Toy Drive Wish List
Thanksgiving Aid for Fire Relief: www.InHisShoes.org
Cover: from Ted-x Yerevan 2014
Technical Director: Ken Nalik
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