Tag Archive for: Politics

Jesus Eyes

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Next Step with Fr. Vazken #721: All the beauty of this world can be wiped out with the push of a couple of buttons. Playing by the rules of humanity instead of the rules of politics. You’d like to believe war is good for “absolutely nothing” until you stop and think how it grabs your attention. Conflict resolution with new metaphors. Imagine a modern day R&R prophet. Francis consecrates Ukraine and Russia. Tears shed over a rose in the rain. Dilemmas of the ethnic church(es). The cheap route of genocide recognition.
Francis Consecrates Russia and Ukraine
Kareem Abdul Jabar on Will Smith
The lost “four white guys”
Universal Soldier by Donovan
Cover: Tears shed over a rose in the rain, Fr. Vazken 2022
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Change

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Next Step #678: What needs to change to bring about peace? Moving from the personal – habits – to the global – peace/harmony: the first steps of bringing about change. The myth of politics: why it fails. Bully to bully: Motives aren’t all focused on change nor maintaining the status quo.
Jesus on Priorities
Dalai Lama, Book of Inner Peace
Andrew Weil, MD, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Israeli Journalist regarding Peace
WD168 this week
Tracy Chapman
Cover: Joshua Tree, 2021 Fr. Vazken
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Downshifting

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Next Step #673: Post Genocide-recognition- downshifting to use lower gears to go faster. Fr. Vazken talks about the importance of the genocide tag and some of the dangers of the designation. Comfort directed: Christian responsibility in the face of evil. Politics and the license to play with history. Philosophy, reason, God. First look at an old book: Tolstoy’s “My Religion”. Calculations for today: 4weekETB
In His Shoes Mission Statement 
Congressman Adam Schiff reads Pres. Biden’s Letter re: Genocide
Armenian Film Foundation
“Survivors” by Don and Lorna Miller
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Genocide Commemorative Concert
Leo Tolstoy, “My Religion”
“We will not be erased”
WD168 – this week: Post Genocide-Recognition
Ara Topouzian Stringed Tranquility
Cover photo: San Francisco Street downshifting
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To Dream 21

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Next Step #659: The inauguration of Joseph Biden is the backdrop for a discussion about inspiration and the power to dream. It’s the ground-work for mystery and the holistic approach to worship shared in Armodoxy. Up close and personal, Fr. Vazken passes along the inspiration that is far from a political event.
Biden Inauguration Speech
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
Benediction at Inauguration Dr. Beaman
Martin Luther King Retreat Archive
WD168 this Week
Langston Hughes, “I Dream a World” 
Reclaim 2021 Save the Date: March 6
Inner Light lyrics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Ladaniva Mini-concert
Pattern Language
Cover: 2021 NBClosangeles.com
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Ink Knew Tune

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Next Step #645: Identity in crisis during a crisis: How to cope with the horrors of war and move from hopelessness to hopefulness. Tackling the big questions of purpose by finding definition in work and identity. At the foot of the bed: cancer patients and the war. Power and knowledge beyond human capabilities? Moving from ‘or’ to ‘and’ in placing faith with science. Mesrop Mashtots in Artsakh and the 1903 Encyclopedia Britannica. All this and politics too.
Nairyan Vocal Ensemble
Nairyan Vocal Ensemble YouTube Channel
WD168 going viral
Priests going to war
Christianity Today on the War
Purple Tie Awards
Cover Photo: Ruins near Abovyan, 2014 Fr. Vazken
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Plastic: Molding Faith

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Next Step #638: As the political atmosphere heats up with elections two months away, religion, particularly Christianity, comes into question as politicians justify actions and policy with a wide variety of departures on theology. Fr. Vazken offers a primer on politics and the use of religion, finding the grey matter between the black and white, conservative and liberal. Qualifying politicians by the Christian scale: the plasticity of the faith to conform to the world and an Armodoxy look.
Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin
Billy Graham’s granddaughter on Evangelicals today
WD168 this week
Armodoxy Blogspot
In His Shoes
Plastic Man Wiki
Cover: PM/No.1 Fr. Vazken 1966
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Stiff Neck Bible Phenomena

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Next Step #636: Politics and politicians describe an economy which delivers money by which consumers can buy goods and services, including Bibles. The inter-connectivity of just about everything. Finding Truth beyond the facts and accounting for time and place of evolution, e.g. The aim of Gospel messages. After Christ’s temptations and the last one – a revisit of the film, story and controversy. Jesus, Widows and Orphans: Not playing by the rules. Beirut and the Grapeblessing service.
Refuse by the Zela Margossian Quintet
Songs for our Soldiers Concert – Sydney Australia ACYA
Donate to the Cause: E-transfer to Armenian Church Council of Aust. NSW BSB: 032 297 Account No: 323236
Last Temptation of Christ, Fr. Vazken 1988
GrapeBlessing in the Armenian Church (AC101)
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WD168 for Week of 8/13/2020
Cover – Wooden Gospel cover with Reflection, Fr. Vazken 2014 Madenataran, Yerevan, Armenia
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Realigned to the Road Ahead

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Next Step #594: The Genocide is not a bargain chip nor a punishment: Rejecting a political solution for sacred remembrance. A look and re-look at a true mission for ourselves and our collective energy, as prescribed by Christ himself. “For this I was ordained…” (Luke 4) and its meaning today. Finding the poor, the brokenhearted, captives, blind and oppressed – in the here and now – not too far from home. A special Fr. Vazken annual review and one of the essentials for the In His Shoes and Armodoxy understanding!
Dizzy Gillespie – Odyssey
Salt Peanuts
Essentially Anush – Line drawings
Tweeting from Fr. Krikor’s Ordination
Luke 4
Western Diocese website http://www.wdacna.com/
Cover: Road in Jermuk, 2019 Fr. Vazken
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Expelling the Laugh Track

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Next Step #507: Expulsion Sunday is the backdrop of this episode as Fr. Vazken looks at the myth of Eden and the power of politicians and law makers, with attention paid to the placement of the laugh-track. Waking up with inspiration, motivating ourselves in face of violence, Florida and more. Jesus fulfilling the laws of the universe, beyond the Moses stories. And the “prime of equal proportion.” Practical Lenten practices as prescribed in Scripture: a look at Matthew 5 & 6.
Seminarians in Moscow
Gun Violence in Florida
Trump: Arming Teachers
Reclaim: Embracing-Faith.com
Lenten Journey Day 11
Billy Graham
Billy Graham on Race
Problem of Evil by Fr. Vazken
Soft & Hard Reset
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Eclipsed & Reset

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Next Step #481: Post Eclipse Blues: Fr. Vazken returns from Oregon and delves into the spirituality of the solar eclipse. Charlottesville: Political response offers insight into Einsteinian insanity and it ain’t what/who you think. Beyond metaphors, the eclipsed Sun does win in the end.
Compilation of Sun-songs by Ken Nalik
Eclipse 2017
The Voyager Journeys
Bible & the Armenian Church
Time Magazine on Charlottesville
Eclipsing the Eclipse
The Oregonian
Voodoo Donuts
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